innovation
The coronavirus pandemic is highlighting the innovations that have been desperately needed in higher education all along.
How can you use new tools, techniques, and technologies to rethink your personal productivity and enhance your future self?
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The lessons we’ve learned here on Earth will affect how we govern a new world.
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Do space and time really exist? NASA astronomer Michelle Thaller looks at the implications of Einstein’s famous equation E=mc2.
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Why did the dinosaurs go extinct? Because they didn’t have a space program.
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With the right technology, we can continue to “flatten the curve,” even as we venture out of our homes.
He’s also credited by some as having coined the phrase “user-friendly.”
Colleges and universities can continue to ignore what the market wants, or they can get in the game and differentiate with new on-ground and online pathways to employment-centric education.
Should humans fear artificial intelligence or welcome it into our lives?
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A team of scientists created a new type of robot inspired by an octopus, and it could be a major breakthrough in the field.
The space agency is ready to establish a base camp by 2024.
Astronaut Garrett Reisman talks NASA, SpaceX, and where we’re headed next.
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How can we track the spread of COVID-19 where testing is not widely available? How can global health be improved by innovation and cooperation? Over the last few years, Kinsa […]
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While our world is in a period of indefinite stasis, people’s needs aren’t. Now is the time to become positive disruptors, creating the transformations that need to happen to make […]
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Device for harnessing terahertz radiation might enable self-powering implants, cellphones, other portable electronics.
How do we make sense of an inflection point as we’re living it? How do we build more resilience into ourselves and our systems moving forward? In this interactive session, […]
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New research on ankle exoskeletons show promising results.
Tech is rising and America’s middle class is vanishing. Here’s what to do.
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Medical researchers put a ring on it to learn more about the onset of COVID-19.
A NASA-sponsored competition asks participants to improve the design of a bucket drum for moon excavation.
Using permanent magnets may help to make nuclear fusion reactors simpler and more affordable.
Through experiencing time in a nonlinear way, can artificial intelligence provide us more perspective?
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We encode our biases into everything we create: books, poems, and AI. What does that means for an increasingly automated future?
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Ever smell a durian fruit? Don’t. Think of it as nature’s stinky battery.
Effort-focused exercises often lead to better, more innovative ideas.
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Technology best serves the user when organic development combines necessity with collective values.
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Despite the hype, these technologies aren’t relevant right now. But they could be in the future.
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A pragmatic approach to fixing an imbalanced system.
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Add some color to the internal structures and you’ve got some eye-popping imagery.
Technological advances in molecular biology could help fix the planet.
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