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Harvard Neuroscientist: Meditation Reduces Stress and Literally Changes Your Brain
Brain

Harvard Neuroscientist: Meditation Reduces Stress and Literally Changes Your Brain

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

By Jolene Creighton

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

By Kaitlyn Wylde

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

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

Because knowledge is power.

By Kaitlyn Wylde

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

By Kaitlyn Wylde

In the Age of Blockchain, Crypto Has a Major Problem
Blockchain

In the Age of Blockchain, Crypto Has a Major Problem

Fortunately, a solution is already in the works.

By Kristin Houser

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Health & Medicine

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

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

By Abby Norman

Scientists Observe Gravitational Anomaly on Earth
Physics

Scientists Observe Gravitational Anomaly on Earth

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

By Futurism

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

By Dom Galeon

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Solar Power

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

The Sunshine State is harnessing its natural resources.

By Tom Ward

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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.”

By Dom Galeon

Central South African Bank Will Experiment With Bitcoin Regulation
Bitcoin

Central South African Bank Will Experiment With Bitcoin Regulation

This will hopefully legitimize the cryptocurrency to novice users.

By Karla Lant

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

By Karla Lant

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

By Christianna Reedy

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

By Karla Lant

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Google

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

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

By Chelsea Gohd

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

By Abby Norman

Imagining a World with 4 Spatial Dimensions
From Quarks to Quasars

Imagining a World with 4 Spatial Dimensions

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

By Futurism

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

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

It’s literally stronger than it looks.

By Abby Norman

Immediate Carbon Capture is Critical to Avoiding Extreme Climate Change, Scientists Say
Climate Change

Immediate Carbon Capture is Critical to Avoiding Extreme Climate Change, Scientists Say

It's now or never if we want to escape extreme climate change.

By Karla Lant

Brian Greene: What Is Time?
Science & Energy

Brian Greene: What Is Time?

By Jolene Creighton