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Virtual tourism has thus far been a futuristic dream, but a world shaped by Covid-19 may be ready to accept it.
Scientists successfully trained people to use robotic extra thumbs, suggesting body augmentation could revolutionize future humans.
The Vertebrate Genomes Project may spell good news for the kakapo and the vaquita.
The 1998 hit is making a comeback. Stop what you're doing and watch the original.
We have pipelines for oil and natural gas. Why not water?
Science is an ongoing flirtation with the unknown.
Science journals may be lowering their standards to publish studies with eye-grabbing — but probably incorrect — results.
A "seafood mafia" is plying the waters between India and Sri Lanka to satisfy China's appetite for an increasingly rare delicacy.
Even the ones hunting for aliens aren’t excited. Here’s the reason why. In this world, there are very few issues more polarizing than the notion of aliens. For as long as […]
The eclipse season is starting with a bang.
Business leaders know they must prepare for technological upheavals in the years ahead. But keeping up-to-date on new technologies—to say nothing of understanding their complexities and forecasting those shifts—is an […]
If a large asteroid strikes Earth, it has the potential to release an enormous amount of energy, leading to local or even global catastrophes. The strike that led to the […]
A thought experiment from 1867 leads scientists to design a groundbreaking information engine.
A famous thought experiment from the 1970s is more relevant today than ever before.
Contact-tracing apps can be a useful tool for public health, but they have considerable false positive and false negative rates.
A new agricultural revolution could forever change the planet.
Infrared, visible, and ultraviolet combine to show us Jupiter’s features as never before. The largest planet in our Solar System, Jupiter, is our own ‘failed star.’ The best evidence-based classification scheme […]
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It's time to rethink how satellites and other objects are made and eventually destroyed.