innovation

There’s still a lot even doctors don’t know about it.

It may be simpler than we thought.

Economic necessity and growing isolation are making some middle-class families try coparenting, explains author Alissa Quart.

How does Alzheimer’s disease work?

How do companies keep getting you to buy the “latest and greatest” iteration of the product you already own? By testing the boundaries.

Want to learn about innovation? Study hip hop. From the early dance halls to the Wu-Tang Clan, cognitive friction has made hip hop better and better.

Bret Weinstein says that we’re at the end of a massive technological and geographic boom, and that we should prepare for the next step in our societal evolution. Yet the future may not be optimistic for all. A cultural backlash to change, he says, is inevitable.

The three behemoth companies are teaming up to disrupt the U.S. health care industry, a move that spooked the markets on the morning of the announcement.

It’s the first time the U.S. has fallen off the top 10 list since Bloomberg began its index.

Amazon has opened a new store in Seattle, one that may represent the future of what the retail giant is calling ‘Just Walk Out’ shopping. 

A new study highlights how blockchain technology can be a game-changer in education.

Nissan is developing technology that controls the car by reading the driver’s brain waves.

Hertz Foundation Fellow Dr. Christopher Loose sold his first startup for $80 million. His advice is probably the kind you want to hear.

This independent zone, with its own regulations and social norms, will be built from scratch on 10,231 square miles of untouched land at a cost of $500 billion. 

“Well, technically it did land… just not in once piece.”

It’s an incredibly exciting time to be alive, especially if you’re an explorer. We may have been to almost every point on the globe, but there is so much left to understand.

This infographic, by Anna Vital from Funders and Founders, recaps the significant moments of Steve Jobs’ journey on, and sometimes off, the path of success. 

Illinois passed a bill that could abolish AT&T’s obligation to provide the state’s citizens with landline telephone services.

Google is closing in on achieving a major quantum computing milestone.

Elon Musk publishes a visionary paper on his company’s plans to colonize space.

A new paper suggests population size and migration explain the sudden bursts of innovation seen 50,000 years ago.

From Abraham Lincoln’s founding of the National Academy of Sciences in 1863, to the US currently leading the world in the Nobel Prize count (a third of which we owe to immigrants), America was built on science. What happens when we doubt and defund it?

Humans worship at the altar of excellence, but is our complete obsession with this “quality controlled” mode of intellect holding us back?

Skepticism has a place, but it’s optimists who decide the future, says Kevin Kelly.

What if we build from the sky down? NYC architects release designs for a skyscraper that would hang from an asteroid and travel between hemispheres.

The ‘Project Wing’ drone system is going to change life as we know it—and inadvertently fix all your storage problems. rn

As its CEO, Bill Nye lays out the missions The Planetary Society would like to see NASA focus on over the next 20 years. NASA by nature goes where the future is, and Nye can’t help but think of another industry that should follow suit.

Disney does more than make cute movies. Researchers from its innovation branch want to turn your living room into a magnetic field. 

These glycerin “smart glasses” may be the only specs you’ll need – although they do need a design intervention at some point.

Astro Teller’s innovation tip? Fail fast. Here’s how he cultivates and rewards intellectually honest failures, and helps his team get comfortable with the idea.