Outside of Naples, researchers have turned land polluted by illegally-dumped chemicals into a liv...
The digital relationship between the Asian neighbors has rapidly evolved over the past decade, an...
Dubbed "the International," a young Egyptian computer programmer had built a program to scrape us...
Voice messages are unilateral and time-consuming: this is bad communication innovation.
LE MONDE Monstrous Times Call For Monstrous Fiction: A French Manifesto Against the omnipotence of "reality-show novels" and costume fiction, a group of young French authors want to reassert ...
The procurement of raw materials and the difficulties in recycling batteries show that electric v...
LE MONDE Full Translation Of French Anti-#MeToo Manifesto Signed By Catherine Deneuve Some 100 prominent French women artists and intellectuals have issued an open letter in Le Monde ...
The Earth also rises ... On Dec. 24, 1968, on the first human orbit of the Moon, astronaut Williams Anders looked out the window of Apollo 8. Reaching for his camera, and its color film, Anders ...
Patric Fassbender and Marcus Stahl are struggling to keep up with demand for their "Tonieb...
How VR can help patients suffering from eating disorders, phobias and schizophrenia.
Google tried and failed to play the social media game. But that's not necessarily a bad thing...
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 ...
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?
Ethical concerns about last week's CRISPR breakthrough in China are valid. But they can evolv...
A visionary engineer and his two-person company have a plan to pave the country's roads with ...
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, ...
Engineers in Antioquia decided to cross-reference data on solar radiation and cloud cover to enco...
Unlike countries like the US or even China, India doesn’t have a national repository to sto...
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 ...
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