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Two recent polls underscore Americans' shifting attitudes on climate change.
Unhealthy diets cause the part of your brain responsible for appetite to become inflamed, encouraging further eating and obesity.
The system could help with diagnosing and treating patients that cannot communicate.
A question that's baffled physicists for nine years has been resolved by the simplest possible answer.
The question is, how can we make employment fair for everyone?
Is there life beyond Earth, even in our Solar System? This mission might be humanity’s best hope of finding it. The biggest question facing humanity might be, “Does life exists beyond […]
Repeating lies makes people believe they are true, show studies.
The fast-food company recently agreed to acquire a tech company whose "speech-to-meaning" technology might soon be interpreting customers' orders.
How can Innovation Central not manage to solve its own sprawling homelessness?
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The fourth wave of the Industrial Revolution is here. If change is led by the right people, we will have ethical machines, says Intel's Lama Nachman.
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An amateur astronomer discovers an interstellar comet on its way to our Sun.
Etgar Keret's stories are as funny, painful, and surreal as life itself. We talk about the craziness of his native Israel, his new collection of short stories FLY ALREADY, marijuana, dementia, and much more.
Even if automation makes human trafficking economically inefficient, that alone won't end this unethical practice.
"People are not commodities!" said Assemblyman Rob Bonta.
Researchers are only just beginning to really understand anaesthesia awareness.
"We need to get our priorities straight," Warren said.
Why are we prioritizing completion, rather than actual learning?
On the latest episode of The Portal, the two men talk about the consequences of a public being shielded from battle.