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Risk Management
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.
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.
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.
When Cameroon's Lakes Monoun and Nyos exploded, they released clouds of carbon dioxide that suffocated everything in its wake.
Argentina's black market for cash is embracing crypto — but it's not what crypto proponents expected.
A food safety researcher explains another way to know what’s too old to eat.
Agile learning enables an organization to pivot quickly in response to changes in technology, economic conditions, market demand, and more.
"This fourth wave will be worse than it’s ever been before."
1859's Carrington event gave us a preview of how catastrophic the Sun could be for humanity. But it could get even worse than we imagined.
Here's what the weather phenomenon baking large parts of the country actually means.
A doctor once joked that statins will be added to the water supply. Humor aside, the data shows that statins really are a "wonder drug."
The Hyperloop is physically possible, but engineering challenges will make its construction very difficult. Also, accidents would be catastrophic.