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Few know about the trillion dollar crime that stole pay raises while weakening our economy. The “lootocrats” and their courtiers are taking us for a ride.
"Anarchy" is often used as a synonym for chaos. Does the historical record match up with that?
Get ready for images projected in mid-air to start appearing in the next few years.
Artificial Intelligence will change the nature of some jobs, and eliminate others. But will that be good for humanity? Bill Gates thinks so.
If most people knew the details, they might feel very differently about the games.
President Donald Trump veered away from his typical protectionist rhetoric at the World Economic Forum in his remarks on the benefits of global cooperation.
Shanghai scientist Ruxin Li has already built the world’s most powerful lasers, and he plans a new one that can rip matter from empty space.
Here are five points from the World Economic Forum at Davos that can help men and women work together for gender equality.
Would there be only blackness past the event horizon? Or something more? Black holes are some of the most perplexing objects in the entire Universe. Objects so dense, where gravitation […]
"At times, it seems as if we are condemned to try to understand our own time with conceptual frameworks more than half a century old." Historian Niall Ferguson says it's time for an update.
When we are asked to check a sex-identity box on a bureaucratic form, what definition of sex is being invoked and to what end?
It all surrounds your outlook on the self-presentation process.
Citing political tensions and climate change, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist have moved their symbolic Clock to its highest point since 1953
You see a gorgeous salamander. Science sees the key to regrowing limbs, eyes, and even bones.
French president Emmanuel Macron recently announced plans to close all of the country's coal-fired power plants two years ahead of schedule.
Pope Francis’ 2018 World Communications Day message explains the dangers of fake news and what journalists and the public must do to combat it.
A new survey indicates that large financial institutions are relaxing restrictions around mobile trading, increasing the volume of deals done via mobile apps 31% in 2017 from the year before.
Tickets are on sale to view the launch of SpaceX's largest rocket, the Falcon Heavy, which carries with it humanity's ambition to land astronauts on the surface of Mars.
According to science, you can control about 40% of your happiness.
There’s nothing new, recent, or remarkable about it. It’s just a typical cosmic pebble in the galactic ocean. Last year, the interstellar interloper ʻOumuamua passed through the inner Solar System. Originally […]