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The AI remembers that you are 32 years old and like to eat sushi, except on Thursdays.
With sea levels rising, the Dutch are pondering floating cities — while also exporting their engineering know-how to turn a tidy profit.
Leadership training can have huge dividends, when it's done right. Here are seven best practices for building a leadership development program that works.
Drones have a lot to learn from the landing abilities of birds.
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1700s economic principles predicted Uber. A Nobel Prize-winning economist explains why.
Institute for Humane Studies
SpinLaunch's launcher, which is larger than the Statue of Liberty and works like the Olympic hammer-throw event, just came online in the New Mexico desert.
Between fake vaccine passports and targeted supply chain attacks, things are only getting more risky.
Why does Seattle continue to be a place that nurtures the development of breakthrough technologies but not Minneapolis, Memphis, or Minsk?
“This will be one of the most important datasets since the mapping of the Human Genome.”
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College doesn’t pay off for a lot of people. So he started a school that doesn’t get paid unless you do.
Employees are quitting at record rates – a trend that shows no signs of stopping.
Are we really only a moment away from "The Singularity," a technological epoch that will usher in a new era in human evolution?
A new control system, demonstrated using MIT’s robotic mini cheetah, enables four-legged robots to jump across uneven terrain in real-time.
Compassionate leadership is what differentiates good from great leaders during crisis.
Society-changing ideas form through a three-stage process, argues author Michael Bhaskar.
From textiles and transportation to chemicals and microchips, a group of researchers proposes a new way to measure the impact of innovation.
A mouthwash solution containing ferumoxytol and a dye could treat, prevent, and diagnose tooth decay, according to UPenn researchers.
Wireless charging isn't just for phones and laptops. It could also power medical devices like heart implants.
Battery-powered urban aircraft are well within the bounds of technological reality.
More energy means more potential for discovery, but we’re topped out. If your goal is to discover something completely novel, you have to look in a way that no one else […]
The dream of zero resistance is closer than you may think. One of the biggest physical problems in modern society is resistance. Not political or social resistance, mind you, but electrical […]
A black woman most have never heard of made GPS possible. Over the span of a single lifetime, the world has changed in ways that would have been virtually unimaginable […]
Telescopes from the ground are bigger, but have to fight the atmosphere. Here’s how to win. In astronomy, seeing farther and fainter than ever before requires three simultaneous approaches. First light, […]
How can we save humanity from ourselves? In this life and this Universe, there will always be questions beyond the capabilities of humanity to answer. There’s so much that we’ve […]
To find the optimal route between many different locations, we need the power of quantum computers.
The quest for the ultimate vacuum just got taken to the next level thanks to a new technique: the quantum squeezer. One of the most understated frontiers in all of […]
It’s not about whether speculating theorists are right; it’s about looking where humanity has never looked before. The Large Hadron Collider, located at CERN, is the most powerful particle accelerator and […]
A fully programmable quantum computer that can outperform any classical computer is right at the edge of today’s technology. Earlier this month, a new story leaked out: Google, one of […]
The story behind the meme is one of those rare cases where everybody wins. The spectacle of a large fish getting fired out of a cannon has taken the internet […]
Even with the best preparation imaginable, sometimes you have to get lucky, too. Even from our perspective in 2019, 50 years later, humanity’s achievements from July, 1969, still mark the pinnacle […]