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To enable us to read, the brain piggybacks on other cognitive processes.
The holograms use 'aerohaptics', which creates feelings of touch with simple jets of air.
The "Foundation" series, recently adapted into a show by Apple TV, was inspired by a fascinating, real-life academic discipline.
This map shows that the territories discovered by Europeans add up to an area no bigger than Utah.
Chemical energy, where electrons transition in atoms, powers the reactions we see. But two other types hold more promise than all the rest.
More than pay or advancement, people are seeking a better fit between their own and corporate values.
From the first computer to modern AI: how to tell if machines are intelligent.
Both journalists have put themselves in danger to shed light on corruption and abuses of power in their home countries.
Mind Bank Ai is the newest entrant in an ambitious idea: using AI to create a kind of immortality.
Without Benjamin List and David MacMillan, chemists would still be using metals and enzymes to catalyze chemical reactions.
Guided by ultrasound waves, swarms of microrobots could soon be used to deliver medicine to targeted sites in the body.
Our temporal experience of the world is not divided into a series of neat segments, yet that's how we talk about time.
People appear to have no qualms about sharing their locations, struggles, and relationships online.
The Swedish Academy honored the writer for his uncompromising inquiry into the lasting consequences of Africa’s colonization.
Many contrarians dispute that cosmic inflation occurred. The evidence says otherwise.
A new study shows that the Bernardinelli-Bernstein Comet is much larger than previously thought — potentially the largest ever spotted.
David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian were awarded the highest honor in medicine for their research into how human bodies make sense of and respond to the outside world.
Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" series helped inspire the field of social physics, which uses math to understand crowd behavior.
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Experts say we should only be working 15 hours per week, so why are some working 80?
Evidence shows that information is transmitted via “complex contagion.”