Creativity is more than finding new solutions to abstract problems presented in laboratory settings, and a new study out of Northwestern University is one of the first to measure what qualities correlate with creative achievement in the real world. | Continue reading
How do you develop the next big idea? You pull together people who are both curious and passionate. | Continue reading
Scientists find that bursts of gamma rays may exceed the speed of light and cause time-reversibility. | Continue reading
So much for rest in peace. | Continue reading
A new paradigm for machine vision has just been demonstrated. | Continue reading
Scientific advancement is more than a series of experiments: it is often a debate among scientists with fundamentally different points of view. Niels Bohr knew this firsthand thanks to Einstein. | Continue reading
How the half-hour commute and motorised transport changed our cities into huge metropolises. | Continue reading
A scientist in Sweden makes a controversial presentation at a future of food conference. | Continue reading
While nobody wants to die, Emanuel believes that the alternative, degeneration, is worse: "living too long is also a loss," he states in his original essay. For a great deal of Americans these kinds of disabilities and loss of health severely limits what they can do and accomplis … | Continue reading
Using a new process, a mini-brain develops retinal cells. | Continue reading
Its landslides have killed locals before. | Continue reading
Since the idea of locality is dead, space itself may not be an aloof vacuum: Something welds things together, even at great distances. | Continue reading
Did a poorly understood ancient civilization somersault over charging bulls? | Continue reading
How the story of a statistics student being late to class became the inspiration for the protagonist of Good Will Hunting. | Continue reading
Scientists make an important discovery for the future of computing. | Continue reading
Rote memorization doesn't cut it for theoretical physicist Michio Kaku. Here's why. | Continue reading
Erik Verlinde has been compared to Einstein for completely rethinking the nature of gravity. | Continue reading
The idea that we can't perceive objective reality in totality isn't new. We know everyone comes installed with cognitive biases and ego defense mechanisms. Our senses can be tricked by mirages and magicians. And for every person who sees a duck, another sees a rabbit.But Hoffman' … | Continue reading
What is reality and how do we know? For many the answer is simple: What you see — hear, feel, touch, and taste — is what you get.Your skin feels warm on a summer day because the sun exists. That apple you just tasted sweet and that left juices on your fingers, it must have existe … | Continue reading
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