When it comes to technology, we’re often presented with two contrasting visions of the future: one where technology fulfills all our desires, and another where it...
Material scientist Anna Maria Coclite unveils “smart skin” — artificial skin technology that responds to touch, temperature and humidity like your very own. (It’s actually even...
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The world has plenty of clean energy. The problem is storing that energy and getting it where we need it, when we need it, says battery...
The current explosion of exciting commercial and open-source AI is likely to be followed, within a few years, by creepily superintelligent AI – which top researchers...
From World War II to the 2008 economic collapse and beyond, history shows that economists don’t always see the future as clearly as they think they...
Drawing on his decades-long mission to formulate the world in computational terms, Stephen Wolfram delivers a profound vision of computation and its role in the future...
There’s a saying that comedy is tragedy plus time. Perhaps that’s why some of our biggest problems feel easiest to manage with a dose of humor....
US Congresswoman Lucy McBath has made it her mission to seek bipartisan solutions for gun safety, leading the way in sponsoring so-called “red flag” laws that...
Using paychecks, perks and carefully worded mission statements plastered on posters, companies are on a never-ending quest to find what drives morale at work. An underappreciated...