What if the Dinosaurs Hadn’t Gone Extinct? Why Our World Might Look Very Different
Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid hit the Earth with the force of 10 billion…
Meta’s New AI Ranked in the Top 10% at the Game ‘Diplomacy’—and Human Players Were None the Wiser
AI has mastered some of the most complex games known to man, but while it…
Human Enhancement Needs Ethical Oversight on a Global Scale, New Study Says
We all imagine better versions of ourselves. Smarter. More attractive. Physically nimble to rock the…
Will We All Work 4 Days in the Future? A US Trial Has Employees Saying Yes
This past summer saw the launch of the biggest four-day work week trial in the…
This ‘Shark Tank’ Startup Is Making Vegan Bacon Out of Seaweed
More people are opting to go vegetarian or vegan as factory farming’s impact on the…
NASA Gives ICON $57 Million to Build a 3D Printer for Structures on the Moon
Austin, Texas-based 3D printing construction company ICON has gotten some pretty significant projects off the…
More Americans are getting news on TikTok, bucking social media trend
To better examine the ways Americans get news in a digital age, Pew Research Center…
Physicists Simulate a Simplified Wormhole on Google’s Quantum Computer
Wormholes might sound like something that belongs in a Star Trek episode rather than a…
On driverless cars, older adults more likely than younger ones to express wariness
A Ford Argo AI test vehicle drives through downtown Detroit in July 2019. (Jeff Kowalsky/AFP…
Most K-12 parents say COVID’s first year took educational toll on kids
(Laura Olivas/Getty Images) Recent findings from the National Assessment of Educational Progress add to mounting evidence that…