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Fingerprinting and facial recognition may lead the way in air travel.
The latest phones have more than one million (1,048,576 to be exact) times more memory than the Apollo computer had in RAM.
The FBI has been called to investigate it.
At 18 percent of the population, Hispanics account for 67.2 percent of U.S. net homeownership gains.
Most diseases don't differ depending on where you're from. Schizophrenia, however, is heavily dependent on your culture.
Schadenfreude has always been with us.
The Soviet Union’s space program was years ahead of the USA’s. So how did they lose the space race? Here in the United States and all across the world, humanity is […]
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When it comes to sniffing out whether a source is credible or not, even journalists can sometimes take the wrong approach.
Charles Koch Foundation
For eons, belonging to a tribe was essential for survival. But today?
A new paradigm for machine vision has just been demonstrated.
"A monkey has been able to control a computer with its brain," Musk said, referring to tests of the device.
Why doesn't the U.S. generate more electricity from wind?
Physicists sure do give counterintuitive names to the things they find. Most of us are confounded by the idea of relativity when we first encounter it. Objects don’t just move through […]
5mins
Want to be smarter than you were yesterday? Learn to have better conversations using these 3 design principles.
Institute for Humane Studies
Was it "one small step for man," or "one small step for a man"?
The results contradict the popular assumption that men react far more strongly to pornography.
The reason one diet does not suit all may be found in our guts.
It's a popular buzzword among the self-help community, but does trying to become self-actualized do any good?
July 16, 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the mission that first landed a man on the Moon.
Steve Wozniak doesn't know if his phone is listening, but he's minimizing risks.