BARCELONA — It’s a large, bright open space, in which 80 people work, sitting behind brand new desks. The grey of the carpet is still pristine, the walls too white, impersonal. Except for a large ...
In far southern Argentina, writer Pablo Bizón recalls a chance encounter with a woman who ...
NEW DELHI — In an article in The Atlantic, Patrick Collison and Michael Nielsen express their concerns about the perceived slowdown of scientific progress. With “more scientists, more funding for ...
If cars are supercomputers, why are we not programming them for fewer emissions and speed?
A visionary engineer and his two-person company have a plan to pave the country's roads with ...
Critics worry that by partnering with Palantir, a Silicon Valley company with ties to the CIA, po...
PARIS — What if the GAFA quartet (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple) also became giants in the healthcare sector? Google first tried to put on the white coat more than a decade ago. After "Google ...
This is a story about love, hate and Mark Twain. The object of Twain's desire (then resentment): the typewriter. Twain first laid eyes on a "newfangled typing machine," as he called it, ...
Unlike countries like the US or even China, India doesn’t have a national repository to sto...
Scientists and Tibetan Buddhists gathered in Gangtok, India earlier this month for an unlikely me...
Algorithms can certainly speed things up. But are they an appropriate tool processing residency a...
One study says it will take at least 100 years to bridge the global gender gap. And 217 years to ...
BEIJING — A video is making the rounds across China's internet. On a bus in the western city of Xi'an, an elderly man is seen shouting at a pregnant woman that she should give up her seat. "I am ...
The project "The Ocean Cleanup" wants to use its system to rid the oceans from plastic waste. The...
Scientists from the University of Magdalena in Colombia discovered six new species of tardigrades...
PARIS — The French capital was set to be the world capital of science. On May 17-18, no fewer than 50 conferences in the fields of aerospace, mechanics, energy, the environment, civil engineering, ...
Education and experience certainly play a role in how well an individual understands other people...
The U.S. web giant may be planning a return to China. But would web users there actually embrace ...
There's a potentially sinister side to the crush of data we unwittingly feed into systems lik...
Since 2011, the Caribbean islands have been attacked by rafts of algae which give off a pungent o...
-Analysis- MUNICH — As far as industrial strategies and international competition are concerned, there’s no greater contrast than that between Europe's resignation and China's iron ...
French experts doubt that a machine can help you find your soulmate better than trusting the eter...
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