3/7/22Will There Ever Be a 'Cure' for Addiction?"I don’t think so, no... That said, there are currently new approaches being tested."
2/28/22What Do Animals Dream About?"But basically all mammals—rats, dogs, cats—also have REM sleep. And it’s during REM sleep that we take experience…
2/21/22What's the Most Dangerous Emerging Technology?"What could go wrong? Soon we will be able to write any virus genome from scratch."
1/3/22Can You Really Tell the Difference Between 4K and 8K?"We would need to get right up close to the TV (quite an unnatural thing to do) to tell apart a 4K screen from an 8K…
12/28/21Will Nuclear Fusion Ever Power the World?"The running joke in fusion is that, every year for the last 50 years, it’s been 50 years away. But this time, I…
12/20/21What's the Oldest Sport?"The oldest sports—using that term loosely—would likely concern training for war or ritualized leisure activities…
12/6/21What Will Smartphones Be Like in 10 years?"The future of the smartphone—or connection device(s)—will likely rely on more deeply engaging us sensorially as…
11/29/21Can Technology Enhance Your Taste Buds?"The real question is: why would you want to do that?"
11/22/21Which Animal Species Get Along the Best?"It is clear that some animals become familiar and get along with group members that happen to be other species, but…
11/8/21Could We Ever Stop a Hurricane in Its Tracks?"These days, hurricane modification is considered almost a kind of fringe science. But that wasn’t always the case."
10/25/21Why Do So Many People Believe in Miracle Cures?"People may believe in miracle cures in part because doing so helps to fulfill powerful psychological needs."
10/18/21When Will Force Shields Be Real?"...a personal field ... as portrayed in many science fiction movies and comic books, that is invisible to the naked…
10/11/21When Will the Covid-19 Pandemic Be Over?"It’s humbling... We did not foresee the levels of miscommunication we’d be faced with..."
10/4/21Could Fossil Fuel Companies Ever Be Tried for Crimes Against Humanity?"Isn’t there some all-powerful hammer—the proverbial silver bullet—that we can use to bring this spiraling problem…
9/27/21What's the Newest Language?"Even excluding conlangs (deliberately constructed languages like Esperanto or Klingon), new languages form…
9/20/21Will It Be Possible to Upload Information to My Brain?"Using brain-machine interface technology to directly write in information to the brain... as in The Matrix... it’s…
9/13/21What's the Future of Air Travel?"The systems underpinning air travel are so complex that change is inevitably incremental."
9/6/21When Will There Be a New Solar Superstorm?"It’s always a matter of hot debate in the research world."
8/30/21What Is the Most Important Scientific Development of the Last 50 Years?"That would surely be the discovery and proof of global warming."
8/16/21How Has Social Media Impacted Our Mental Health?“It is not cut and dry. The science is far weaker than most admit.”