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Ask very silly questions to spur very serious innovation.
The future of food sounds bleak, but it doesn't need to be this way.
On the first episode of The Portal, Eric Weinstein and Peter Thiel discuss the future of education.
Here's why you might eat greenhouse gases in the future.
The study — which involved more than 2 million children — is the largest of its kind.
This new research could help individuals recover from one of the most dreaded types of injury.
Considering the U.S.'s history of biological warfare, maybe this theory isn't as crazy as it sounds.
Hunting for dark matter, neutrinos, and other elusive signals isn’t just a satisfying endeavor, it’s a way of life for Dr. Laura Manenti. We know that there’s more to the Universe […]
The nature of our quantum Universe is puzzling, counterintuitive, and testable. The results don’t lie. Although our intuition is an incredibly useful tool for navigating daily life, developed from a lifetime […]
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Pulitzer Prize-winner Jared Diamond explains why some nations make it through epic crises and why others fail.
New report shows the extent of China's hidden power as the developing world's creditor.
Fingerprinting and facial recognition may lead the way in air travel.
The latest phones have more than one million (1,048,576 to be exact) times more memory than the Apollo computer had in RAM.
The FBI has been called to investigate it.
At 18 percent of the population, Hispanics account for 67.2 percent of U.S. net homeownership gains.
Most diseases don't differ depending on where you're from. Schizophrenia, however, is heavily dependent on your culture.
Schadenfreude has always been with us.
The Soviet Union’s space program was years ahead of the USA’s. So how did they lose the space race? Here in the United States and all across the world, humanity is […]
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When it comes to sniffing out whether a source is credible or not, even journalists can sometimes take the wrong approach.
Charles Koch Foundation
For eons, belonging to a tribe was essential for survival. But today?