Sustainable Development

DeepMind Invented A Computer That Learns How To Use Its Own Memory

Deep Mind, Alphabet’s artificial intelligence development wing, published its third research paper in Nature on Wednesday, and it’s a doozy: the tea...

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23 Million Year Old Leaves Helped Solve An Antarctic Climate Mystery

As Antarctica melts, it’s releasing centuries’ worth of locked-away ice into the ocean and pushing sea levels higher. It’s scary stuff. But it also isn&rsquo...

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This Is What It's Like To Be Inside The World's Largest Particle Accelerator

Now you can see scientists try to make space for a giant 360 degree camera-ball while they’re hard at work helping uncover the origins of the universe: the European Orga...

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Mercury Is More Earth-Like Than We Thought

Mercury has been hiding an exciting secret: the closest planet to our Sun is perpetually shrinking, according to new data from NASA, which shows the appearance of new, tiny cr...

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Watch Researchers Use Sound To Move Multiple Objects With Precision

A team of researchers at Aalto University in Finland has devised a method for the controlled movement of multiple objects using a single sound source, a development which may ...

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Watch The Highlight Reel Of Blue Origin’s Successful Rocket Test

Rockets are finicky. Sometimes, when you’d like them to remain in one piece, they rapidly disassemble. When you’re fully expecting them to crash and burn in a glor...

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How We Blended Our Minds With Our Devices

Like life itself, technologies evolve. So it is that the telephone became the smartphone, that near-at-hand portal to the information superhighway. We have held these powerful...

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Blue Origin Successfully Lands Both Capsule And Rocket Booster

Blue Origin, the private space company founded by Amazon entrepreneur Jeff Bezos, pulled off a pretty incredible looking double bullseye today: it successfully landed both its...

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Wikileaks Is Making A Twitter 'Army' To Fight Against 'Misinformation'

Wikileaks is forming a so-called “Task Force” made up of volunteers to fight back online against critics and correct potential factual inaccuracies about the site&...

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Watch A Video Of SpaceX’s First Mars Rocket Engine Firing

One week after boasting about the Raptor engine’s initial, successful test, SpaceX has posted a video of its brand new methane-fuelled rocket engine in all its shock dia...

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ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: TOPSHE FOREVER

On the fiftieth anniversary of Sonar Kella, Siddhartha Chatterjee Reflects on Topshe, Sa...

December 27 2024

THOUGHT FACTORY: THE ALPHA PUP

"Decoding Kids' Pester Power: Exploring Their Influence on Consumer Decisions and the Ch...

December 26 2024

TRENDING: THE POWER OF NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS

Start the year with purpose! Discover how New Year’s resolutions can inspire growt...

December 25 2024