Gates Foundation pledges $300M to help the World’s Poorest Farmers

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is teaming up with partners around the world to take on some tough challenges: extreme poverty and poor health in developing countries...

#MeToo – Do Sexual Harassers keep Good Science from Happening?

 Boston University (BU) is investigating sexual harassment complaints made against a prominent Antarctic geologist by two of his former graduate students. The women al...

How far can humanity Advance?

You get grades in school and promotions at work but ever wonder how a civilizations performance is measured? The Kardashev scale is a method of measurin...

Exponential Impacts: Women Tech Enthusiasts Chip In For Artificial Intelligence

“Success in creating full Artificial Intelligence would be the greatest event in human history.”

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How Online Radio Shows, Podcasts & Blogs Can Be Your Guide To New Music

In the age of algorithmic discoveries, there’s a case to be made for real guides. What better way could there be to expand the horizons of your aural experience? Ther...

The UN Will Give You $15,000 To Help Address Climate Change

This is an opinion piece by Erik Solheim, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme. During an extraordinary year in Bern, Switzerland, a young German ...

Humans May Be Living In Triassic-Period Conditions By 2250

The Triassic Period was a gnarly time to be alive on Earth, and not only because it was Act One of the age of dinosaurs. This epoch stretched from 251 to 199 million years ...

NASA Is Stress-Testing Its Next Gigantic Kickass Space Telescope

The Hubble Space Telescope, the first major optical telescope ever hurled into space, broke down a lot. Since its launch in 1990, NASA has organized five separate missions ...

Scientists To Repeat 19th-Century Ship's Crossing Of Polar Ice Cap

In 1893 the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen embarked on a mission of extraordinary boldness and ingenuity. He planned to become the first person to reach the north pole ...