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Popular Science: Our 31st annual Best of What’s New list is the culmination of a year spent obsessing over, arguing about, and experiencing the newest technologies and discoveries across 10 distinct disciplines. Yes, there are eye-poppingly-bright TVs. Sure, there are video games that will keep us busy for days. And, naturally, there’s a car that, on the right road, will just drive itself. Here, we dig deep, because some innovations don’t make a lot of noise, yet have the potential to make a real and lasting impact.
In this video, Suspicious0bservers details the top 5 natural threats to global Civilization. They are: #5 Gamma Burst, #4 Magnetic Reversal, #3 Grand Solar Minimum, #2 Major Solar Storms, #1 Volcanic Winter
If you’re one of the millions of people who own a device with Amazon Alexa, the company’s helpful personal assistant, whatever you say may be recorded – especially if someone in the house is named Alexis, Alex, or Lexi.
Watch this cool video to learn 11 mind-boggling facts about Croatian-born Nikola Tesla – a genius inventor who discovered the electric alternating current and much, much more.
Increasing numbers of scientists around the world are producing research data demonstrating the immediate threat posed to human health by saturation coverage of wi-fi, smart meters, and EMF in general.
Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram may not be great for personal well-being. The first experimental study examining use of multiple platforms shows a causal link between time spent on these social media and increased depression and loneliness.
So when communities install and promote “Smart” Playgrounds as a way to get kids to go outside and play, it sounds more like a skit on Saturday Night Live than something that’s actually happening.
A nostalgic person may find that years later he/she feels a yearning of things in the long lost past. Sometimes, it is indescribable or unexplainable. It takes on a transpersonal quality, a feeling that cannot be described using language. Only the experiencer knows the feeling, it cannot be precisely shared with others.
Why bother being concerned about running out of time, if time doesn’t exist to begin with? The idea that time is an illusion counts among one of the most highly debated theories of our time.That said, the idea that time is merely a manmade construct – seconds, minutes, hours, days, and so on might become more […]
In broad terms, overpopulation relates to whether our planet is capable of sustaining humans as our numbers increase and resources decrease. Can the Earth Sustain More of Us? The answer, unfortunately, is not a straightforward as one would hope. According to a 2012 report commissioned by the UN, encompassing 65 different estimates, Earth’s human capacity could vary anywhere from 2 billion people to upwards of 1 trillion.
The Eye of Africa is not just the most likely location of Atlantis, but the connection of the new evidence presented in this video makes this case so compelling that it’s practically definitive.
Test flights of a driverless hover-taxi will take place in Singapore next year, a German aviation firm said, the latest innovation to offer an escape from Asia’s monster traffic jams.
Science has come a long way in understanding how our universe works and that road has been full of wrong turns and dead ends. Here are 6 scientific explanations that turned out to be way off track.
You might think that not a lot can happen in 5 seconds. But around the world, in the whole universe, and inside your own body, there are millions of processes taking place in that tiny amount of time. Get ready because some of these facts will take you for a wild ride and make your head spin.
Granting human rights to a computer would degrade human dignity. For instance, when Saudi Arabia granted citizenship to a robot called Sophia, human women, including feminist scholars, objected, noting that the robot was given more rights than many Saudi women have.
