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Will the LHC Prove the Existence of Higher Dimensions?
How many dimensions are there? Is time a dimension? Or is our 3-dimensional space-time just one element—and a minor one at that—of a greater hyperdimensional universe? It’s a question that’s been asked...
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Artificial Intelligence: What It Is and How It Really Works
Which is Which? It all started out as science fiction: machines that can talk, machines that can think, machines that can feel. Although that last bit may be impossible without sparking an entire world...
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Solar Power Finally Becomes the Cheapest Source for New Energy
Say Hello to the Sun When it comes to obtaining new energy, solar energy now costs less than fossil fuels, according to a report by the World Economic Forum (WEF). Data from Bloomberg New Energy...
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Machines That Learn Are Invading, and Utterly Transforming, Our Lives
What is Machine Learning? The interest in artificial intelligence (AI) has evolved lately into something more akin to an obsession. Every day, it seems, we learn of some new development in AI, or its...
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Westworld and AI: Experts Discuss the Future of Intelligent Machines
Sophia’s No Dolores…Yet. Remember that robot that freaked everyone out on the internet because it said it will destroy humans? That was Sophia—and she feels terrible about the whole thing. In any case,...
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Is the Promise of Cold Fusion Still Worth Waiting For?
Is Cold Fusion Junk Science? In 1989, Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons boldly claimed that they were able to uncover the process behind cold fusion. Cold fusion was the “holy grail” of energy...
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What Is the Likelihood That Europa’s Oceans Harbor Alien Life? We May Soon...
Defining the Habitable Zone It’s one of the most pressing questions in science: is there alien life somewhere out there within the great wide demesnes of the universe—beyond the homely, terrestrial...
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CES Day One: The Weirdest, Coolest, and Most Futuristic Tech
It’s the first week in January, and that can only mean two things — painful hangovers from New Year’s revelries and the international Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas! Forget Christmas…for tech...
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Researchers Create New, Self-Healing Artificial Muscles
MUTANT MATERIAL? Scientists have managed to create a unique material that, they claim, is able to do what no other material can—act as an ionic conductor and at the same time, heal itself. The group of...
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It’s Big, it’s Robotic, and it’s Pretty Cool—Check Out This Giant Mechanized...
Giant Robotic Insect Remember that giant robotic exosuit—the one Sigourney Weaver used in her epic mêlée with the queen alien at the end of Aliens? Or all those giant robots that show up in just about...
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The Sun, the Earth, and a Few Billion Years: Will Our Planet Still Be Around?
Great Balls of Fire It’s a brand new year. That’s one year less from the billions of years—about seven billion, in fact—before the inevitable happens: our Sun will evolve onto the asymptotic giant...
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Learning About Inner Space It’s the only known asteroid in the Solar System not made of rock or ice. Discovered way back in 1852, 16 Psyche is a strange hunk of metal orbiting between Mars and Jupiter,...
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Peter Diamandis Thinks We’re Evolving Toward “Meta-Intelligence”
From Natural Selection to Intelligent Direction In the next 30 years, humanity is in for a transformation the likes of which we’ve never seen before—and XPRIZE Foundation founder and chairman Peter...
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Worlds Without End: The Many Kinds of Parallel Universes
Multiversal It’s a frequent staple of science fiction—the notion that there’s another universe out there, coextensive with yet sejunct from our own; a distinct, alternate reality populated by our...
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More Than Human: Scientist is Building Animal-Like Machines to Save Lives
Robo-Rescuers Sangbae Kim, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, has a very distinct vision for the future of emergency response. Amid advances in AI and robotics, he believes that...
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ESA’s Plan for a “Moon Village” is Slowly Starting to Come Together
The Race to Space Last year, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced plans for building a permanent lunar base—called Moon Village—which would be a step forward as the International Space Station...
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Blame Displacement of Jobs on Automation, Not Offshoring and Immigration
A New Wave of Automation As the world continues to achieve unprecedented levels of advancement in AI and robotics, we must, at the same time, come to terms with the fact that our fundamental...
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China Claims It’s Made the Impossible EmDrive Possible
Made in China If you’ve seen Rogue One (or any Star Wars movie), you’ve seen how those X-Wing and TIE fighters were able to do those crazy maneuvers in space using just their thruster engines, right?...
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Predicting 2017: The Rise of Synthetic Intelligence
The transition from one year to the next is always a little uncertain – an uneasy blend of anxiety and optimism, it’s also a time of retrospection, introspection, and even a little tentative...
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Predicting 2017: How Future Energy Will Change Our Lives
The transition from one year to the next is always a little uncertain – an uneasy blend of anxiety and optimism, it’s also a time of retrospection, introspection, and even a little tentative...
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