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Now that we know the closest star has a potentially habitable planet, it’s time to ask if it’s really like ours. “To consider the Earth as the only populated world in […]
A team of Harvard researchers 3D prints a fully autonomous octopus-like robot that runs on a chemical reaction.
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If someone comes back from the future, they ought to have packed one thing in their carry on: proof.
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Do you know how your iPhone works? Because cybercriminals do. Futurist and global security advisor Marc Goodman explains how our void in tech knowledge lets hackers have a field day, and how to make yourself less vulnerable.
One of the fathers of string theory proposes a new equation that may reconcile general relativity and quantum mechanics.
As this stark map shows, domestic violence against children is still legal in most of the world.
A group of expert geologists declared that a new epoch influenced by human impact has begun.
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Author Jonathan Safran Foer on the two surprising qualities successful writers need.
Seattle has a new plan to reduce HIV, drug overdoses, and stray needles: it wants to let addicts shoot heroin and smoke crack legally in monitored spaces.
SETI researchers have found a major radio telescope signal and are trying to nail down where it’s from.
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The word parenting, as a verb, has only been around since 1958. Developmental psychologist Alison Gopnik examines when caregiving became the art of hovering, and the pitfalls and anxiety of trying to shape children instead of raise them.
Images credit: New York Times, 10 November 1919 (L); Illustrated London News, 22 November 1919 (R). If the cloud situation had played out differently, the United States might have confirmed […]
What kind of person could withstand a trip to Mars and back? NASA and Hi-SEAS is trying to find out.
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1% of all Google searches are health queries. Cyberpsychologist Mary Aiken explains how artificial intelligence diagnostics lead to psychosomatic symptoms, and potentially explain the fourfold increase in iatrogenic death in the US since 1999.
Alien life may be so different from us that we wouldn’t even recognize it as life.
Improvisational theater, an often overlooked genre, involves dynamic lessons on listening that can help all kinds of professional relationships and improve conversation.
https://players.brightcove.net/2097119709001/4kXWOFbfYx_default/index.html?videoId=5093427476001 In 1946, we made history by photographing the Earth from space for the first time. How far we’ve come! “You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an […]
In Netflix’s "Stranger Things" characters enter a parallel dimension. Could this actually happen?
The latest Starts With A Bang Podcast holds the answers. Our Universe has been expanding and evolving since the hot, dense, expanding state known as the Big Bang first came to […]
Studies suggest that giving elementary students homework does more harm than good.