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Brain

Here’s How You Can Use Meditation To Change Your Brain

"We found differences in brain volume after eight weeks."

Solar Power

Solar Power Has Finally Proven That It’s The Energy Source of the Future

Think that solar power is inefficient and expensive? Think again.

Future Society

LinkedIn Meets Tinder in This “Mindful Networking” App

Swipe right to make the connection that could launch your career.

Brain

Harvard Neuroscientist: Meditation Reduces Stress and Literally Changes Your Brain

"Our data shows changes in the brain after just eight weeks."

Mental Health

Therapy Is Proven To Improve Mental Health. Now, You Can Do It Anywhere.

Stressed? Need to talk? There's a new way to get help.

Robots and Machines

Why You Should Never Go on the Internet Without a VPN, and How You Can Get One

Because knowledge is power.

Brain

There’s A New Way to Use Meditation to Reshape Your Brain

In case you missed it, meditation literally alters how much gray matter you have.

Blockchain

In the Age of Blockchain, Crypto Has a Major Problem

Fortunately, a solution is already in the works.

Health & Medicine

Cows are Helping Researchers Fight HIV. Here’s How.

The study tells us "how the virus evades the human immune response.”

Physics

Scientists Observe Gravitational Anomaly on Earth

This fundamental quantum anomaly is extremely important to our understanding of the universe.

Renewable Energy

Researchers Have Found a Way to Convert CO2 Into a Usable Fuel

The process is a win/win for the planet and people.

Solar Power

This U.S. City Now Requires Solar Panels on all New Homes

The Sunshine State is harnessing its natural resources.

Google

Google’s AI Fight Club Will Train Systems to Defend Against Future Cyberattacks

“The bad guys will be using machine learning to automate their attacks, and we will be using machine learning to defend.”

Health & Medicine

The World’s First and Youngest Double Hand Transplant is Declared a Success

Two years post-operation, Zion Harvey's hands are helping him play baseball

Quantum Computing

Scientists Build a 51-Qubit Quantum Simulator and It’s the Largest One Yet

The technology could be used to build full-scale quantum computers.

Artificial Intelligence

Experts Want Robots to Have an “Ethical Black Box” That Explains Their Decision-Making

“Presently, we have no commonly accepted approaches. And without an industry standard for testing such systems, it is difficult for these technologies to be widely implemented.”

Google

Google’s Newest AI is Turning Street View Images into Landscape Art

Google map's capabilities are expanding further than ever before.

Exoplanets

New Studies Indicate Life on TRAPPIST-1’s Exoplanets Might be Impossible

“Because of the onslaught by the star’s radiation, our results suggest the atmosphere on planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system would largely be destroyed.”

From Quarks to Quasars

Imagining a World with 4 Spatial Dimensions

We live in a 3-D world...but what if we didn’t?

Science & Energy

Researchers Create Soft, Flexible Material That’s 5 Times Stronger Than Steel

It’s literally stronger than it looks.