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We can either be fearful of artificial intelligence, or embrace it as a tool to help us improve service.
How an off-the-radar Nobel Prize brings us ever nearer to finding a major cure.
"We seem to be racing toward a new configuration of government and industry without having fully thought through all of the implications," Steve Aftergood, director of the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists, told MIT Technology Review.
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The private sector may need the Outer Space Treaty to be updated before it can make any claims to celestial bodies or their resources.
Any business owner wants to make sure they’re giving their customers an ideal experience. Not only are happy customers more likely to be repeat customers, but they can serve as […]
Jim Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz just won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics. It couldn’t be more well-deserved. Every year, the Nobel Prize reminds all of humanity to […]
Colonizing the Red Planet isn't a bad idea in theory. But . . .
Lucy in the Sky film doesn't deliver what it implies, but is a wacky docudrama instead.
A new immunotherapy treatment is showing positive signs in early-stage clinical trials.
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NASA astronomer Michelle Thaller explains what astronomers actually do, and how can you become one.
From LED-equipped visors to transparent masks, these inventions aim to thwart facial recognition cameras.
Sleep deprivation leads to a shutdown in the production of essential proteins.
Many deserving potential awardees were snubbed by the Nobel committee. But this takes the cake. Every October, the Nobel foundation awards prizes celebrating the greatest advances in numerous scientific fields. Alfred […]
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Why do people with bigger hands have a better vocabulary? That's one question deep learning can't answer.
Scientists discover the inner workings of an effect that will lead to a new generation of devices.
We're blissfully ignorant of how we put ourselves at risk online.
One of the scientists with the Viking missions says yes.
It’s not about whether speculating theorists are right; it’s about looking where humanity has never looked before. The Large Hadron Collider, located at CERN, is the most powerful particle accelerator and […]
Discrimination against people because of their age is a real phenomenon.