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Discover the peril and potential of an automated robotic world.
Two new studies might have identified whether or not patients will respond to chemotherapy.
Our planet is rare, precious, and fragile. It’s up to all of us to be its steward. With the advent of rocketry and spaceflight, our cosmic perspective changed forever. The very […]
Even if the company call pull it off, are Americans ready to trust fully autonomous cars?
Some basic areas we could all use some improvement in.
The recent debate between Slavoj Zizek and Jordan Peterson lived up to the hype.
Secret Spice Girls dance parties of the wives of anti-western morality police. Book deals for political prisoners still in jail. Iran is a land of contradictions where oppression and freedom uneasily coexist. Born in France, Delphine Minoui lived in Tehran for 10 years to understand her grandparents' country from the inside.
If a star spins and then collapses, what happens to its angular momentum? The most common way to form a black hole in the Universe is to have a massive […]
The lack of tall, strong oak trees poses something of a problem for the restoration effort.
In India, a construction boom is fueling a criminal enterprise around one of the most ubiquitous substances on Earth: sand.
There was a first molecule, and we found one just like it. But there’s a big difference. The Universe’s first molecule is found at last! That’s what the headlines have […]
If you're lacking confidence and feel like you could benefit from an ego boost, try writing your life story.
A space memorial company plans to launch the ashes of "Pikachu," a well-loved Tabby, into space.
 Angie McArthur, CEO of Professional Thinking Partners and the co-author of Collaborative Intelligence, talks about keeping a relationship “clean.” She’s talking about dealing with misunderstandings before they have a chance […]
Red, green, and blue? What we call ‘color charge’ is far more interesting than that. At a fundamental level, reality is determined by only two properties of our Universe: the quanta […]
You can't do pure science independent of human experience.
The team caught a glimpse of a process that takes 18,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years.
Two new reports highlight the stark realities of the modern workforce.
A scientific look into a ubiquitous phenomenon.