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"The amount of interest is enormous," says anesthesiologist Boris Heifets. "People are dropping in and coming out of the woodwork, trying to understand how to do this."
Australia's AAPowerLink boasts three global superlatives: largest solar farm, largest battery, and longest power cable.
No matter how good our measurement devices get, certain quantum properties always possess an inherent uncertainty. Can we figure out why?
To what extent will our psychological vulnerabilities shape our interactions with emerging technologies?
2023 is an exciting time for the study of quark-gluon plasmas.
Within the "Dark Triad" of personality traits, narcissism exists on a confidence spectrum.
Cooperation was the first technology.
No matter how good our measurement devices get, certain quantum properties always possess an inherent uncertainty. Can we figure out why?
Americans on average consumed about 58 pounds of beef and veal in 2019 – compared with a global average of 14 pounds.
Let's hope that squid don't evolve lungs and legs, or humanity might be in real trouble.
The chemistry of cooking over an open flame.
Singapore is a breeding ground of truly green buildings.
This article was originally published on our sister site, Freethink. Fifteen volunteers in France just spent more than a month living in a cave — without any way to tell time — […]
An exclusive interview with physicist Lee Smolin reveals how abandoning Einstein's dream may have been a terrible mistake.
The more you like, follow and share, the faster you find yourself moving in that political direction.
"Nothing but naked people: fat ones, thin ones, old, young…"
Christians and Muslims that pick out unconscious patterns are more likely to believe in a god.
Thanks to modern technology, we can reexamine our assumptions about ancient warriors.
Cancer's sweet tooth. Turning cancer cells into fat. Unveiling genetic secrets. Scientists are learning about cancer every day.
This may be more common in mammals than we'd thought.
Can algorithms use collective knowledge to make us all internet explorers?
If we find the earliest signal from the Universe’s birth, how can we be sure we aren’t fooling ourselves? When it comes to the origin of the Universe, the Big […]
Uber, Lyft, ZipCar, and other transportation companies have signed onto a new pledge to curb urban congestion—in their favor.
Even if the Universe grows to infinity, there might not be enough space to hold all the possibilities. “We are actually living in a million parallel realities every single minute.” –Marina […]
One woman's decision to end her life has a large segment of Americans rethinking their stances on assisted suicide.
It was this map of Greenland that triggered this post. I say map, but I mean hole in a drainpipe. This picture was sent in by Ruland Kolen, who was […]
Performance art and film art have always been the afterthoughts of museums—the new kids on the block with no room of their own in the big culture houses. Institutions designed […]
“Plan Now. Relax Soon.” The Concierge of a fancy resort has sent me this “Quick! Relax, Goddamnit!” email. My husband and I are looking forward to attending a wedding […]
A Q&A With Christian Wiman, Translator of Stolen Air When Osip Mandelstam died at age 47 in a Siberian work camp under the Stalin regime, he became one of twentieth-century […]
In the May-June 2011 issue of the international art magazine Flash Art, performance artist Marina Abramović began a regular column titled “Marina’s Diary,” in which she plans to document her […]