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Risk Management
The divers spend their waking hours either under hundreds of feet of water on the ocean floor or squeezed into an area the size of a restaurant booth.
Fear of technology is not new. But we misunderstand its origin. In reality, we don't fear technology but each other.
Memorial day is a time to remember veterans killed in the line of service. These spaceflight heroes deserve to be remembered, too.
Scenario-based learning makes employees active participants in their own learning process, better preparing them for the real issues they may face at work.
Becoming a renter in today’s economy may be a smart decision for some people.
Million Stories
We do not need to pause AI research. But we do need a pause on the public release of these tools until we can determine how to deal with them.
The next solar eclipse to occur over heavily populated areas is on April 8, 2024. For a spectacular show; here's where the best views are!
Financial illiteracy can become a significant problem. But it’s a problem with a clear solution.
Million Stories
The secret may lie in an old idiom: "Sleep on it."
An innovation's value is found between the technophile’s promises and the Luddite’s doomsday scenarios.
You can't throw a DART at everything in space.
Even if a balloon flies directly overhead, attempting to shoot it down with a conventional firearm is stupid, ineffective, and dangerous.
Smart investors recognize that the stock market doesn’t exist in a vacuum.
Million Stories
Here on Earth, the Sun is our primary source of light, heat, and energy. But it also poses a grave threat to human civilization.
Why would the Earth suddenly start vomiting forth huge quantities of mud?
People with shingles have an approximately 80% higher risk of stroke than those without the disease.
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The real risks of psychedelics, explained by a Johns Hopkins expert.
A Carrington-magnitude event would kill millions, and cause trillions of dollars in damage. Sadly, it isn't even the worst-case scenario.
Between the instability of the real estate market and cryptocurrency fluctuations, everyone has been talking about bubbles. But what are they, really?
Million Stories
After cryptoassets, a wave of central bank digital currencies is set to revolutionize our ideas about what money is and how to manage it.
If everyone just showed up to their appointments, $150 billion of waste could be averted.
We want to fight invasive species. But to wage a war, you have to know who your enemy is.
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CRISPR’s gene drive can defy evolution. Here’s how, explained by Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna.
John Templeton Foundation
They are expected to be cheaper to build and even more reliable than today’s nuclear plants.
You might think it's impossible to run out of wind, but Europe's "wind drought" proves otherwise. And it's only going to get worse.
The new agency wants to push the boundaries of science and technology.
Synthetic biology has the power to cure and kill. Have we learned from our past mistakes?
The war in Ukraine is unlikely to trigger a catastrophic nuclear meltdown. Physics and smart engineering are the reasons why.
Total annihilation is a permanent threat.