Technology & Innovation

Hyperloop One announces completion of first successful full-system hyperloop test.

New research suggests that Tyrannosaurus Rex could only walk, not run, a big change in its ferocious image.

Can guess what’s on the list?  

Can we ensure robots are greeted into society without people getting that sinking feeling?   

Weighted blankets have been proven to help you get a better night’s sleep by mimicking swaddling and increasing serotonin levels. 

Every week one of our brave editors scours the comment section for gems. Did you make the cut? 

A new C is coming to the C-suite: The Chief Robotics Officer, or CRO. Do I hear laughter or detect an eye roll? Think again. The bots are coming. Business […]

Elon Musk is without  doubt one of the great visionaries of our age. But how did he get there? 

The results of this study help us better understand how stars are born and how they develop.  

Harnessing the power of photosynthesis may be able to produce all the hydrogen for energy we need.

An AI-driven robot has successfully flown and landed a simulated Boeing 737 for the first time.

Is the government overpaying by $300 million? Elon Musk of SpaceX has long argued that there needs to be greater competition with the awarding of space launch contracts. New reports indicate that SpaceX may be $300 million less than the US government is currently paying.

The theory could solve certain stubborn physics questions such as, where’s all the antimatter.

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have connected inattention and giving up on your dreams. 

Facebook researchers have found that dialog agents being trained to negotiate will create their own non-human language to be more effective. What does this mean for the future of language?

Since the moment humans became aware of their existence, they have been haunted by the knowledge that it will inevitably come to an end and the hope to change this […]

It could be on the market in about five years.   

Unless we take a more scientific approach to philanthropy, we risk spending a lot of money doing some very backward, ineffective, and inefficient things.

This theory may square differing calculations in the universe’s expansion rate.   

This was the first direct measurement of gravitational waves ever, as predicted by Einstein.   

First of its kind study compares the effects of eating between 8 a.m. and 7 p.m. and eating between noon and 11 p.m.

In case you haven’t already heard of CRISPR-Cas9, it is the revolutionary gene-editing technology, discovered just a few years ago, that allows scientists to edit the DNA of any species […]

Even if free will doesn’t exist, some say we should allow a belief in it to remain.   

Our future as humans might be great. Or non-existent. Is our government, or Silicon Valley, prepared to handle the consequences of advancing AI?

Marcus du Sautoy says that all of the greatest discoveries are behind us. Others are not so sure.   

Artificial wombs just got a lot closer to becoming a reality. But who will benefit from this groundbreaking technology? And what do feminists have to say about it?

“Space-time is not as static as it appears, it’s constantly moving,” one researcher said.   

Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson on the mind-boggling awesomeness of space. 

“Would anyone read a sci-fi story with a dark-skinned, female protagonist?” – this is the question that got it all started. At that time, in the fall of 2013, the […]

Researchers plan on making human cells resistant to infection, radiation, and even cancer.