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Developed by a Spanish team, it combines conventional GPS with additional sensors. The increased accuracy makes it ideal for driverless cars of the future.
Some good news for once: The European Science Agency reports that the hole is now smaller than it's been at any time in the last decade.
One mining company speculates it's in the low nine figures; astronomers think that's a stretch. There's no way to be sure, of course, but its Friday fly-by has both groups thinking about future close encounters.
According to recent FDA data compiled by a Pew Charitable Trusts project, the amount appears to be growing while the government "dithers with voluntary approaches to regulation."
For the first time, and only until February 25, the public is invited to submit and vote on names for the objects currently known as P4 and P5.
There’s a moment in Keith Richards’ recent memoir when he pauses his tale of addiction and debauchery to reflect that, once a certain number of stories about his excesses had been told […]
The most common stars in our galaxy were too small to be seen until recently. A new study suggests that there's a good chance that they support Earth-like planets.
Like many Americans of a certain age, for me, Andy Kaufman (shown above) was first, and in some ways forever, Latka Gravas, the lovable garage mechanic with the endearing misuse […]
American Express and Twitter have announced a partnership that allows cardholders to make purchases using special hashtags in their tweets.
Why does the Purple Line in this alternate-universe railway map terminate in Quincy, Illinois?
Our attitude toward the pathologizing may be more destructive than the pathologizing itself.—James Hillman, Re-Visioning Psychology Trauma affects all of us. Types of trauma—physical, emotional, violent, intrusive, social, or the […]
The company has announced a deal with Gilbarco Veeder-Root, which operates pay-at-the-pump software at convenience stores across the US.
Developers have created software that helps users -- specifically, crowdsourced workers -- locate and mark challenges for those with limited mobility, and generates a report to send to the appropriate local agency.
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Meeting big, audacious, ambitious goals requires taking multiple steps in reasoning, not just thinking from point A to point B.
The New York Times reports that an MIT statistics professor has found that flying on a commercial jet has never been safer. Not that it was ever that much […]
So anyone who's ever really thought about love knows that our techno-liberated world is pretty weak on talking about love and death. We're either too vulgar or too vague. It's not […]
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If you’re worried about the fact that you're in a relationship with a psychopath, what can you do about that? What might be some certain things to look out for?
Kevin Dutton walks through the characteristics of psychopathy, and how these behaviors play out in relationships.
How do we evaluate leaders? Would the 13th Amendment have passed without Lincoln's leadership? Would the U.S. have joined the League of Nations had it not been for the stubbornness of Wilson?
On Tuesday night at 9:00 EST, President Obama will deliver his fifth State of the Union address, the first of his second term. Coming just a few weeks on the […]