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Digital Video Portraits are already beating out deepfakes for creepy cultural dominance.

As the Event Horizon Telescope prepares to release its first results, we can expect not just one, but two black hole images. What does a black hole actually look like? For […]

A new study contests the benefits of meditation in the workplace. We show everything that’s wrong with the research.

Each year, lightning kills 24,000 people around the world. These maps show which regions get hit more than others.

As marijuana grows more acceptable in the US, fringe groups and experts are beginning to consider its role in the Christian faith. Could cannabis oil have helped Jesus perform miracles?

LIGO, here on Earth, has exquisitely-precise distances its lasers travel. With three spacecrafts in motion, how could LISA work? Since it began operating in 2015, advanced LIGO has ushered in an […]

Among the hundreds and thousands of codes that have been broken by cryptographers, the government, and even self-taught amateurs tinkering around at home, there remain a small few of codes and devices which have yet to be cracked by anyone.

A new study shows that environment, not genetics, determines behavioral patterns of eating in youth that persist throughout life.

The nightmare scenario of no new particles or interactions at the LHC is coming true. And it might be our own fault. Over at the Large Hadron Collider, protons simultaneously circle […]

Mapping your daily long john needs since 2011 (Canada only)

The report, released by “advisors to the wealthy,” shows what the rich spend their investment money on. Hint: It’s not factories.

Most people experience impostorism at least once. Certain groups however are more prone to it than others.

Here are some of the best books on the rich history, rabid speculations and intriguing fictionalized world of artificial intelligence.

But we shouldn’t give up on direct detection. Here’s why. Dark matter is not only the most abundant form of matter in the Universe, it’s also the most mysterious. Whereas all […]

This eccentric Spanish spy received medals of honor from both the Nazis and the Allies. How did he do it, and why?

The Thucydides Trap leads us to believe a U.S.-China war is inevitable. But is a 2,400-year-old school of thought really what the U.S. should base its foreign policy on?

The Dead Sea Scrolls were first discovered in the West Bank in 1946, but now a specialized camera is helping researchers read bits of the manuscripts for the first time.

In the wake of several public setbacks since the start of 2018, Musk said Tesla is currently going through a “production hell.”

Digging deeper into last week’s revelations about the Red Planet.

They were a little optimistic in 1912, but they understood that adding carbon to the atmosphere has side effects.

Artificial intelligence will soon be powerful enough to operate autonomously, how should we tell it to act? What kind of ethics should we teach it?

Artificial intelligence has so far replaced more menial labor, but could it one day soon come for the more analytical positions in the economy like writers and reporters? What will become of journalism?

Two major galaxies in the local group are already in the process of being devoured by us… and each other. The Milky Way is the second-largest galaxy in our local group, […]

Mark Zuckerberg has infamously downplayed Facebook’s responsibilities as a business in the content creation space. Instead, he defends it as a technology platform.

What causes the urban-rural cultural divide? According to this author, its how we view our communities.

Soccer is not a matter of life and death. It’s much more important than that. And the FIFA World Cup even more so.

If the Breakthrough Starshot initiative, promoted by Stephen Hawking, works exactly as planned, it could lead to disaster. Imagine yourself on a world not so different from Earth, orbiting a […]

To put it mildly, North Korea has had a complicated relationship with the world. In chronological order, here are five of North Korea’s most incredible plots.

Drinking heavily over a long period of time has been known to cause early onset Alzheimer’s. But the forces behind this phenomenon have been a mystery, until now.

Two ex-Googlers release a new phone app that uses A.I. to become a safe, understanding listener.