Russia's state-owned nuclear corporation Rosatom denies the allegations. | Continue reading
The company's protein powder, "Solein," is similar in form and taste to wheat flour. | Continue reading
The Portal promises to be a deep dive into the possible. | Continue reading
It's a big, bold plan. | Continue reading
The Glen McLaughlin Collection brings together more than 700 historical examples of 'California as an island' | Continue reading
Geneticist Qiang Qiu and his team, from the Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi'an, China started their research by mapping out the genes active in 16 live tissue samples from goats, sheep, and deer. Qiu and the research team found that genes responsible for bone formatio … | Continue reading
Could 16 Psyche make every person on Earth a billionaire? The space mining race is heating up. | Continue reading
The more we learn about the microbiome, the more the pieces are fitting together. | Continue reading
One variation on this game shows that believing one is more skilled leads to more selfish behaviour. In research at Beijing Normal University, participants played a fake game of skill before making offers in the ultimatum game. Players who were (falsely) led to believe they had ' … | Continue reading
An innovation may lead to lifelike evolving machines. | Continue reading
A sobering look at the prospects for kids not wealthy enough to fail upward. | Continue reading
Irish president believes students need philosophy. | Continue reading
Just how equal in size are the populations of Europe and North America? | Continue reading
An investigation finds the cause of failed NASA launches and $700 million in losses. | Continue reading
What could add almost four and a half years to your life? Being a woman, according to new data from the World Health Organization, which explores access to and attitudes towards health, as well as how this plays into life expectancy. | Continue reading
Psychopaths are manipulative, violent, impulsive, and lack empathy — but research suggests that psychopathy may be an evolutionary strategy rather than a disorder. | Continue reading
It marks a major shift in the government's battle against the opioid crisis. | Continue reading
We're talking Ghost in the Shell type of stuff. | Continue reading
An innovation may lead to lifelike evolving machines. | Continue reading
A new experiment shows that two observers can experience divergent realities (if they go subatomic). | Continue reading
But we already knew that, didn't we? | Continue reading
They didn't know it, but the rituals of Iron Age Scandinavians turned their iron into steel. | Continue reading
Hungarian cartographer travels the world while mapping its treasures. | Continue reading
The Bill Gates-backed venture promises to remove CO2 from the atmosphere at a rate of under $100 per tonne. | Continue reading
Lasers solve the mystery of the missing quill. | Continue reading
Sleep encoding turns out to be a real thing. | Continue reading
We might soon see more carnivores go meatless. | Continue reading
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Hollywood's notions of future wars may be nothing like the real ones. | Continue reading
The news has not been encouraging as of late if you are one to pay attention to either climate change or The Great Barrier Reef: coral reefs are an incubator of the ocean's ecosystem. They account for less than 1% of the ocean and yet manage to provide food and shelter to over on … | Continue reading
The thing is, "artificial intelligence" itself is a lie. Just evoking that buzzword automatically insinuates that technological advancement is making its way toward the ability to reason like people. To gain humanlike "common sense." That's a powerful brand. But it's an empty pro … | Continue reading
China is investing a gargantuan amount of money in Africa, but it's leaving many in the global community concerned as to why. | Continue reading
Even the optimists among us would have to admit 2018 was a challenging year. | Continue reading
The CEO once said a self-sustaining Mars colony won't work if it's wildly expensive for each person to make the voyage. | Continue reading
A breakthrough app for ultrasonic squeak analysis. | Continue reading
Here's the recipe to make a black hole: start with a sizeable amount of hydrogen, enough to make a star about 25 times the mass of the sun. That hydrogen will begin burning into helium. Let the star cook for a few million years, and it'll start to run out of hydrogen to burn. The … | Continue reading
One frequent question I get is whether we can break the light barrier—because unless we can break the light barrier, the distant stars will always be unreachable. | Continue reading
A moving mural by street artist Eduardo Kobra is one of the first fruits of a revolution about to take the art world by storm. | Continue reading
The Fermi paradox asks us where all the aliens are if the cosmos should be filled with them. The Dark Forest theory says we should pray we never find them. | Continue reading
About a quarter of victims' lost time was avoidable | Continue reading
A new study flies in the face of anecdotal evidence and raises questions about how we read data. | Continue reading
Decades of studies have shown parents to be less happy than their childless peers. But are the kids to blame? | Continue reading
Research has shown that men today have less testosterone than they used to. What's happening? | Continue reading
Technology proves what women know and men may not want to hear | Continue reading
There might be hope for our oceans, thanks to one clumsy moment in a coral tank. | Continue reading
We have to practice doing nothing more often. | Continue reading
Peter Thiel delivers the keynote address at the 2012 Nantucket Project, arguing that the U.S, is resting on its laurels, and no longer innovating. | Continue reading
A.I. makes a lot of mistakes. | Continue reading