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This discovery could lead to better treatments for PTSD, borderline personality disorder, and epilepsy.
As droughts threaten water supplies across the planet, some municipalities aim to utilize an untapped resource: sewage water.
One day, this powerful tool could be in millions of smartphones.
This everyday electrical phenomenon had no widely accepted scientific explanation — perhaps, until now.
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Meet MIT’s Kate Darling, a robot ethicist who says that we should rethink our relationship with robots.
Mind Bank Ai is the newest entrant in an ambitious idea: using AI to create a kind of immortality.
Buildings don’t have to be permanent — modular construction can make them modifiable and relocatable.
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Israeli food-tech company DouxMatok (Hebrew for “double sweet”) has created a sugary product that uses 40 percent less actual sugar yet still tastes sweet.
Since 1957, the world’s space agencies have been polluting the space above us with countless pieces of junk, threatening our technological infrastructure and ability to venture deeper into space.
If virtue is insufficient temptation, then the internet makes sure we are never lacking.
From religious wars to French poison conspiracies to the counterculture, we look at the origins of Satanism.
Thousands of churches are left behind every year in America.
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Cutting through liberalism and conservatism, important thinkers are trying to navigate a polarized world. This often leads to uncomfortable confrontations.
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