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The surveillance state is here, and it is apparently here to stay. The question moving forward is how effective the U.S. constitutional system and democratic culture will be in keeping the American version from slipping into Chinese mode.
The much-awaited Iranian elections occur this Friday. The incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been running a fiery campaign that became even more so when he took on his main rival Mir […]
These startups, space agencies, and aerospace giants are building humanity's next off-world homes.
Although social paranoia is more common than clinical paranoia, studies suggests that American society isn’t any more conspiratorial than it has been in the past.
By the end, even his mom wanted him gone.
“I think it has a real chance to reverse motor symptoms, essentially replacing a missing part.”
There are three barriers we need to overcome to have better, more productive arguments.
Turning away is a natural response.
The underground burial tombs were used at least as far back as 2500 B.C.
Local researchers identify a striking rainbow-colored fairy wrasse found off the coast of the Maldives as a fish species all its own.
The only doubts are completely unreasonable. Where did the virus that causes COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, come from? Over the past few weeks, there’s been a tremendous push — largely among politicians but also […]
Counterintuitively, directly combating misinformation online can spread it further. A different approach is needed.
Journalists, doctors, and others you should know.
This wide-ranging, 13-course electrical engineering training is your next power move.
A new study at Emory Vaccine Center gets into the bone marrow.
Maps show the oldest company in (nearly) every country – and a few interesting corporate trends.
Fear-mongering is now a billion-dollar industry.
From literature to physics, the annual Nobel Prizes aim to highlight the most groundbreaking achievements in every field.
Researchers from UCLA invent a device that generates electricity from a rather unusual source.
A review of 33 trials confirms that loading your body does your brain good.
Technical knowledge continues to be privileged over social knowledge.
Two mind-blowing theories offer a significant challenge to the accepted model.
Artist Laura Poitras—the filmmaker who helped Edward Snowden—shows Americans how to survive total surveillance in a new exhibition.
Before #OscarsSoWhite and #MoviesSoBland, William Cameron Menzies turned American movies into art.
Google.org is trying to help refugees regain the lives they lost.
While the world's most popular cryptocurrency has allowed for an innovative new approach to online transactions, it's also emboldened criminals to develop creative new ways to skirt the law.
Bike shares shown to increase property values up to 2.7 percent.
The attack at the Bardo National Museum in Tunis, Tunisia, on March 18, 2015, was an attack on civilization itself. Not just Tunisian civilization or Western civilization or Islamic civilization or Christian civilization — ALL civilization. ISIS may not have been directly involved in the Tunisian attack, but its iconoclastic, its “year zero” philosophy certainly was present. The fact that these attackers targeted tourists seeking out ancient civilizations rather than the artifacts of those ancient civilizations makes this latest tragedy even more chilling. The Bardo National Museum attacks may one day emerge as the first battle in the ultimate fight for civilization’s survival.
By Ahmed El Hady In our neuro-centric world-view, a person is equated to his brain. The neuro-discourse has penetrated all aspects of our lives from law to politics to literature […]
Bernard Savage, Head of the EU Delegation to Sri Lanka and the Maldives said: “At this stage, given our information, we would not say that there has been any legal […]