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Stephen Johnson
Executive Editor, Big Think
Stephen Johnson is Executive Editor at Big Think. His writing has appeared in PBS, U.S. News & World Report, and newspapers and magazines across the Midwest. He lives in St. Louis.
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Baby boomers seem to have had an advantage in nearly every financial metric compared to millennials, according to a new study from the Federal Reserve.
A semi-scientific test of touchscreen kiosks in eight McDonald's restaurants in the U.K. have caused alarm that microbiologists say is unwarranted.
The $480 million contract could lead the company to make more than 100,000 augmented reality headsets for the military.
All of eXp Realty's 1,500 employees work remotely on a virtual island complete with meeting rooms, a soccer field and speedboats.
Verily, a branch of Google's parent company, recently finished its second study of a counterintuitive technique that kills mosquitoes without using traditional insect sprays.
Big Think expert Dr. Jennifer Doudna, a professor at UC Berkeley and co-inventor of CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing technology, issued a statement responding to a scientist's recent claim that he helped create the world's first genetically edited babies.
The companies launching satellites aboard the SpaceX rocket hope to revolutionize the Internet of Things.
Project Dragonfly aims to help the Chinese government build a censored search engine that would "blacklist" information that officials don't like.
The unmanned lander will help scientists learn more about the interior of Mars and the development of rocky planets.
The CEO once said a self-sustaining Mars colony won't work if it's wildly expensive for each person to make the voyage.
A Chinese researcher has sparked controversy after claiming to have used gene-editing technology known as CRISPR to help make the world's first genetically modified babies.
A new AI-produced commercial from Lexus shows how AI might be particularly suited for the advertising industry.
The results of a recent trial found that a new oral immunotherapy regimen could have life-saving potential.
A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration likely violated the reporter's Fifth Amendment rights when it stripped his press credentials earlier this month.
The definition of a kilogram will now be fixed to Planck's constant, a fundamental part of quantum physics.
SpaceX plans to launch about 12,000 internet-providing satellites into orbit over the next six years.