Science, statistics and society – The story of a modern coup d’état
Source: Al Hakam By Asif M Basit In the last few weeks – now slowly turning into months – everyone around the world has had a set of words and […]
Why Religion Is Not Going Away and Science Will Not Destroy It
Source: Aeon Social scientists predicted that belief in the supernatural would drift away as modern science advanced. They were wrong. By Peter Harrison, who is an Australian Laureate Fellow and […]
Video: Noam Chomsky speaks about Universal Linguistics: Origins of Language
Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, political commentator, social justice activist, and anarcho-syndicalist advocate. Sometimes described as the “father of modern linguistics”, Chomsky is also a major […]
Stop Me if You’ve Heard This One: A Robot and a Team of Irish Scientists Walk Into a Senior Living Home
Source: Time By Corinne Purtill It’s karaoke-rehearsal time at Knollwood Military Retirement Community, a 300-bed facility tucked away in a leafy corner of northwest Washington, D.C. Knollwood resident and retired U.S. […]
There’s No Such Thing as a ‘Gay Gene,’ a New Study Argues
Source: Time BY JAMIE DUCHARME In 1993, researchers discovered a stretch of DNA on the X chromosome they believed to be linked to male homosexuality. In the years since, the concept of a […]
The quantum revolution is coming, and Chinese scientists are at the forefront
The quantum revolution is coming, and Chinese scientists are at the forefront Source: The Washington Post China’s formidable investment in quantum technology, which could transform information processing and confer big […]
Video: 5G self-driving buses, without driver seat, hit the road in Zhengzhou, China
BEIJING — Buses circling a 1.53 km route in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou are offering a sneak peek at what the combination of 5G telecommunications and self-driving technology is […]
Japan tests world’s fastest bullet train
CNN — Japan has started testing its fastest-ever bullet train — capable of reaching 400 kilometers per hour (249 mph) — as it continues to develop the revolutionary mode of […]
Royal College of Physicians adopts neutral position on assisted suicide despite widespread opposition among members
Source:CT The Royal College of Physicians has abandoned its historic opposition to assisted suicide despite over half of its members saying they would refuse to participate in the practice if it was made legal. The RCP said it had been moved to change its position after a survey of its […]
Humanics: A way to ‘robot-proof’ your career?
Source: BBC News By Tim McDonald As artificial intelligence becomes both more useful and more widespread, workers everywhere are becoming anxious about how a new age of automation might affect […]
Believe It or Not, Pope Gregory XIII Is In the Daily Life of Every Muslim
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times In a few weeks, every one at least in the Western world, Muslim or non-Muslim, will be […]
NASA’s InSight beams back breathtakingly clear photo of Mars
Source: CNN Two days after landing on Mars, the NASA InSight lander is powered up, its solar arrays are working and it’s already sending back selfies. NASA pulled off its eighth landing of a […]
Why artificial intelligence is shaping our world
Source: BBC News We stand on the edge of a crucial moment in the history of our species – a time when a creation of our own inventiveness has the […]
New iPhones Are Just Weeks Away. Here’s Everything We Know So Far
Source: Time By PATRICK LUCAS AUSTIN As usual, Apple is planning a big event for September, during which it’ll likely present the world with a new iPhone. While the company has yet to […]
Facebook Watch video service launches worldwide
Source: BBC News By Leo Kelion Image copyrightFACEBOOKImage captionFacebook hopes Watch will encourage users to spend longer within its app Facebook’s Watch video-streaming service is rolling out worldwide, just over […]
Toyota will invest $500 million in Uber in deal to put self-driving cars on the road
Source: The Verge By Andrew J. Hawkins Toyota will invest $500 million in Uber in a deal that values the ride-hail giant at $72 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal. As part of the […]
Maps reveal hidden truths of the world’s cities
A new website that lets people delve into data on the world’s cities has been launched. Dr Robert Muggah from the think-tank Instituto Igarapé showed the BBC some of his […]
How to build synthetic DNA and send it across the internet
Source: TED Talk Dan Gibson · Genome writer Dan Gibson leads a new breed of bioengineers, called genome writers, who use DNA to design and build new products powering the next industrial revolution. […]
Why Vertigo is so horrifying today
Source: BBC News By Nicholas Barber 9 July 2018 Vertigo gets better with age. Alfred Hitchcock’s mind-bending mystery wasn’t a critical or commercial hit when it was released 60 years […]
