Science

Expert: Today’s Lack of Funding for Basic Research Could Prove Devastating in the Future

Expert Robbert Dijkgraaf points out that investment into basic curiosity-driven research is just as critical "infrastructure" as bridges and roads. Without investment into basic research we risk our national prosperity…

July 4, 2017
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Duke Neuroscientist: Brain Augmentation Will Allow Us to Make a New Kind of Human

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There are a host of brain augmentation techniques in various stages of development, but how promising are they really? Neuroscientist Mikhail Lebedev told SingularityHub what he thinks, and we consider…

July 3, 2017
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A New Tool Could Help Us Finally Eliminate Animal Testing

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Researchers from the University of Leeds and Avacta Life Sciences have developed a new tool for studying biological molecules and processes, one of which could replace animal-derived antibodies.

June 30, 2017
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Animal Rights

Scientists Assert That Hidden Dimensions Might Exist in Gravitational Waves

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String theory has predicted the existence of hidden dimensions, but scientists have yet to find them. However, new work from researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics of the…

June 30, 2017
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MIT Scientist Asserts That We Will Have Fusion Energy by 2030

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Earl Marmar, MIT's Alcator C-Mod tokamak fusion project, said that we could potentially have nuclear fusion powering electric grids by the 2030s — that is, if we continue to pursue…

June 30, 2017
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Renewable Energy

Blockchain and Renewable Energy Are Utterly Disrupting Society as We Know It

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A new microgrid is set to power Brooklyn later this year, thanks to startup LO3 Energy. This microgrid relies on renewable energy and blockchain, two technologies that are inspiring the…

June 28, 2017
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Renewable Energy

Expert: Today’s Lack of Funding for Basic Research Could Prove Devastating in the Future

Duke Neuroscientist: Brain Augmentation Will Allow Us to Make a New Kind of Human

A New Tool Could Help Us Finally Eliminate Animal Testing

Scientists Assert That Hidden Dimensions Might Exist in Gravitational Waves

MIT Scientist Asserts That We Will Have Fusion Energy by 2030

Blockchain and Renewable Energy Are Utterly Disrupting Society as We Know It

Special Report on Venezuela: U.S. Kidnaps Mad…

Trump Administration Pauses Construction on A…

"Destroying Knowledge": Michael Man…

Professor Warns That the Wealthy Are Trying t…

Environment

Trump Administration Pauses Construction on All Offshore Wind Projects…

"Destroying Knowledge": Michael Mann on Trump's Dismantling of Key Climate…

Kitchen Nightmare: How Plastic in Everyday Objects Leaches into Food…

Overdevelopment and Climate Change Collide in Catastrophic Flood

Justice

The longest-running strike in the US is over—and the…

Extrajudicial killings from Barack Obama to Donald Trump

Trump Orders States Not to Protect Children From Predatory AI

The New COINTELPRO? Meet the Activist the FBI Labeled a…

Media

CBS Censorship: Bari Weiss Pulls "60 Minutes" Exposé on…

The state of the free press in the US is……

Media Ignore Government Influence on Facebook’s Plan to Fight Government…

Democracy in Crisis: The Future of Journalism

Philosophy

Good vs. Evil: A Matter of Conscience

Grades and Test Scores Don’t Matter. A Love of Learning…

Great Quotations on the Mysteries of Time

The Illusionist

Politics

Special Report on Venezuela: U.S. Kidnaps Maduro, Trump Says…

Professor Warns That the Wealthy Are Trying to Use AI…

How Did Epstein Get Rich? The New York Times Investigates…

AI Industry Insiders Living in Fear of What They’re Creating

Science

OpenAI Researcher Quits, Saying Company Is Hiding the Truth

The Future Of Sharing Means You’ll Never Have To Buy…

With GDPR Decision, Zuckerberg Proves Yet Again He Has Learned…

What If We Could Literally Rewrite the Human Genome?