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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.
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 […]
A talented young programmer, Christopher Wylie found himself at the center of a complex plot to overturn the cultural order in the United States and Europe—one that most likely tipped the scales on Brexit and the 2016 US presidential election.
A recent headline claimed they could. But if gamma-rays are just a form of light, don’t they have to travel at light-speed? There’s an ultimate speed limit in the Universe: […]
So much of the world you know was made possible by Intel founder Robert Noyce, co-inventor of the integrated circuit.
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Rest assured: Kooky ideas like the Earth being flat or vaccines causing autism are nothing new. Humanity has had worse ideas before.
Since the 1940s, NASA has been testing experimental aircraft (aka X-planes) at California's Armstrong Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base. In the past two decades, however, the agency […]
While the blockbuster franchise might have given us a distorted view of science's capabilities to address species extinction, new research might come close to "resurrecting" lost species' DNA.