America’s birth represented a dramatic break from the past. Save for a few vestiges of the old European feudal order, mostly in the plantation economy of the Deep South, there was no hereditary nob… | Continue reading
Aim for incremental improvements over breakthrough inventions. | Continue reading
"One of the things that holds many of us back is that we're beholden to the news more than we're beholden to our communities." | Continue reading
A recent judgement makes it a breach of copyright to sell pre-owned eBooks. Do publishers really want to deter everyone from buying eBooks? | Continue reading
An optical clock based on an array of individually trapped atoms provides a new twist in atom-based timekeeping. | Continue reading
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These four mindsets can help you transform the culture. | Continue reading
Lock 4 people up in the same room and pick each other’s brains for 1.5 hours. This is the recipe for our Technical workshop or… | Continue reading
These Christmas decoration storage ideas will help your seasonal decor last longer, and you’ll have an easier time getting set up next fall. | Continue reading
A new tool provides detailed, 3-D chemical view of exploded star systems | Continue reading
Python and JavaScript are the two hottest programming languages today. However, they cannot remain on top forever. Eventually, they must… | Continue reading
Christmas has passed and New Year is just around the corner. And the sales continue. Things started six weeks before Christmas with Singles Day, which began in China and is now the world's biggest shopping day. This was followed by Black Friday, Cyber Monday sale, the pre-Christm … | Continue reading
There are so many stories flying around about the horrors already being wrought by climate change, you're probably struggling to keep up. | Continue reading
Scientists could soon better investigate the feeding behaviors of extinct dolphin and whale species. A third year student at Japan's Nagoya University has found that the range of motion offered by the joint between the head and neck in modern-day cetaceans, a group of marine mamm … | Continue reading
Giving your workflow the input of technical knowledge is crucial and wise. The following list will help you to make your workflow leaner… | Continue reading
Volkswagen, already one of the most aggressive automakers when it comes to electrification, announced that it is accelerating its electric car plans and now aims for 1.5 million electric vehicles in 2025. In its original electrification plan, the German automaker had planned to r … | Continue reading
We recently shipped Data Saver Mode, a new feature on Instagram for Android that helps the app consume less mobile data. In this post… | Continue reading
A new report published by the NATO Strategic Communications Center of Excellence examines the four models of "fake news" factories employed in the political battlegrounds of the Philippines in an effort to understand this social media phenomenon as the trolls stand ready to expor … | Continue reading
The complex patterns of activity in motor cortex that control movements such as reach and grasp are dependent on both upstream neuronal activity in the thalamus and the current state of the cortex. | Continue reading
A study published today in the journal eLife has shown that a protein called Astrin is important for the timely and even separation of chromosomes during cell division. | Continue reading
New research suggests forces pulling on Earth's surface as the planet spins may trigger earthquakes and eruptions at volcanoes. | Continue reading
Have you noticed that Orion the Hunter—one of the most iconic and familiar of the wintertime constellations—is looking a little… different as of late? The culprit is its upper shoulder star Alpha Orionis, aka Betelgeuse, which is looking markedly faint, the faintest it has been f … | Continue reading
Screens are everywhere, including in the palms of our hands. Children see how much time we adults spend on our smartphones, and therefore how much we seem to value these devices—and they want to be a part of it. | Continue reading
A device that can separate and recombine pairs of electrons may offer a way to study an unusual form of superconductivity, according to RIKEN physicists. This superconducting state would involve exotic particles called Majorana fermions that could prove useful in developing quant … | Continue reading
The exceptional properties of plastics, such as their chemical, light- and temperature-resistance, in combination with the low cost and ease of manufacturing have rendered them into one of the most popular and widely used materials over the last decades. The widespread use of pla … | Continue reading
Phosphorus, number 15 on the periodic table, can be highly toxic and flammable and has been used in warfare as an incendiary device, yet it is also essential for life. | Continue reading
Thanks to the successful “Kurisumasu ni wa kentakkii!” (Kentucky for Christmas!) marketing campaign in 1974, Japan can't get enough KFC on Christmas Day | Continue reading
All You Need to Know About ZenI was once a philosophy major, but I got bored with it. Only a few philosophers seem to know or care a lot about science and many love paradoxes and infinite set... | Continue reading
Tooth loss is an unfortunate health condition that people all over the world can suffer from. Whether from decay, gum disease, or fractures, you can experience tooth loss in a variety of ways. But what if there was a way to grow back those lost teeth? | Continue reading
Do you have a hard time getting your kids to eat a salad? Making these 5 Kid-Approved Salad Recipes with your little ones might help! | Continue reading
Some algorithms were up to 100 times better at identifying white faces | Continue reading