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Vikas Pota: I care a lot about education because I'm the product of education.
Chinese state television released this video of the Chang'e-3 space probe landing on the Moon, the first soft-landing in three decades.
The idea of uploading your brain to the Internet has been proposed by the likes of Stephen Hawking and Ray Kurzweil. According to Michael Graziano, the question is not if, but when, and what then?
"A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you."- Ramsey Clark (born on this date in 1927)
The future of sex is here, or at least it could be, technically speaking.
Fewer than 14% of American silent films still exist today in complete form according to “The Survival of American Silent Feature Films: 1912-1929,” a recent Library of Congress report by […]
Do you know the science of global warming? Fortunately, Michael Ranney at the University of California, Berkeley, put together a video that explains the science in less than one minute.
Ray Jayawardhana: Being a scientist has given me a chance to see the world.
The astrophotographer Juan Carlos Casado has estimated there are 50 meteors visible in this composite image of the Geminids meteor shower.
Unless you have agreement on facts it’s very hard to agree on remedies for a problem.
Distrust is not a personality trait, nor a cultural trait. It is learned through experience, and can therefore be unlearned through experience.
The human face is the most precise signal system we have for our emotions. We can read seven different emotions and determine whether they're being falsified or whether they are genuine expressions.
Learn about a method for making targeted commitments that succeeded virtually every time.
Google's recent purchase of the defense contractor Boston Dynamics has raised eyebrows, and also brought the inevitable – if overblown – comparisons between Google and Skynet.
"Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media."- William Safire (born on this date in 1929)
A victory for common sense, a setback for sex and drugs and rock 'n roll
Over its history the Earth has seen an incredible diversity of life - maybe as many as fifty million species.
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Kirk Johnson delivers a complete history of life on Earth in 3 minutes.
This drone, which weighs just 20 grams, can avoid obstacles without human guidance.
The lunar landing represents a significant milestone for China's space program. China sent its first astronaut to space in 2003.