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Nissan is developing technology that controls the car by reading the driver's brain waves.
Is high IQ really something that can genuinely turn people on? Apparently so — but only to a certain point.
This list of 10 non-winners is 50% women, but 100% outrageous. In science, advances often come in great leaps. In hindsight, it’s easy to identify perhaps hundreds of small steps […]
Could it simply be pleasure for its own sake?
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History is littered with thousands of things that tried to appeal to everyone and yet failed miserably. If you want true success, try to appeal to a core group.
A vanished people in a vanished place.
Our survival is rooted in theirs.
Scientists find that a drug meant for another illness may significantly help Alzheimer's patients.
The rise of driverless cars will save lives, time, and spark a $7 Trillion "Passenger Economy." But it will also destroy jobs. What should we do?
Scientists come up with an explanation for the strange dimming of Tabby's star and it doesn't involve aliens.
Aiming for the nearest star would necessitate a whole slew of advances. Even if the mission fails, humanity wins by investing in itself. There have been some magnificent moments in NASA […]
Poachers trade on a black market estimated to total $40 billion. It’s impossible to stop every poacher, but new technology could bolster the efforts of conservationists by putting a set of eyes in the sky.
The fragility of digital memory could let the entire story of our time turn to sand.
Western conventional wisdom about animal ethics is that killing an animal is not the problem; the problem is making the animal suffer.
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Getting your vote to where it matters can be harder and more corrupt than it should be. Could blockchain technology build a better system and rebuild people's trust?
While it can often be tempting to unfollow friends who have differing political views than you, one philosopher tells us why we should embrace, rather than shun, such challenges to our worldviews.
A survey of Americans’ views on legalization as AG Sessions restarts nationwide prosecutions.
Did you know the U.S. is actually almost half empty?
With 2017 drawing to a close, many organizations are taking the time to think about how they can improve in 2018. Often, solutions are around finding ways to make the […]
The truth might not be ‘out there’ at all. There may never have been another intelligent, technologically advanced alien species in the entire history of the Universe. When you take into […]