While computers may be able to beat people at such games as chess, a recent research study has found that artificial intelligence has nothing on gamers and human intuition when it comes to figuring out complex quantum physics problems. The experiment was to design a game that mirrored and presented a challenging physics problem that …
If we’ve learned anything from recent science fiction flicks like “Interstellar” and “The Martian,” it’s that space travel is difficult. There are so many variables to consider, so many hazards and dangers, and then there’s the worst factor of all: time. The nearest star is Alpha Centauri, and it’s really, really far away. That’s why …
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced yesterday at the company’s annual F8 Conference that chatbots were coming soon. The new service will be known as Messenger Platform and the key to its operation will be artificial intelligence as the chatbots become integrated into Messenger. The idea is to allow developers to create chatbots that will be …
Billionaire, and the founder of Napster, Sean Parker, announced that he will be giving $250 million to cancer research in a concerted effort to speed up the process that will lead to a cure. Parker is known to throw the proverbial monkey wrench into anything he tries his hand at. He caused panic and change …
Every culture has a legend of a kind of cure-all substance, something that can cure any and all diseases and increase longevity. From the Greek panacea to Chinese ginseng to alchemist elixir of life, humanity has been obsessed with the idea of one solution that could solve all of our health problems. Have the researchers …
We’ve all had to deal with the cable industry in one form or another: broadband internet, cable TV, and occasionally telephone bills for those of us who still dabble in landline phones for whatever reason. And yet, the longer you use these services, the more odd things that start to creep up: like surprise fees that …
A recent article by Jurica Dujmovic from Market Watch estimated that it could take a mere $10 billion to colonize the moon, which he also said is cheaper than the price of one of the U.S.’s most recent aircraft carriers (an estimated $13 billion). But the bigger question is: should we? The cost of traveling …
Around 105 million people were considered obese in 1975, according to worldwide body mass index (BMI) measurements. As recently as 2014, the number increased to more than 640 million, and that’s only including adult men and women. But, despite this, there’s a silver lining: people are also living around ten years longer than before. This …
Have you ever gone on a roller coaster and thought: this could be better, if only aliens were attacking me at the same time? Six Flags is here to answer your call, with what will either be the best summer pastime or the most gimmicky: virtual reality coasters. The original Revolution steel coaster debuted on …
It may be a little on the nose to say that oil is quickly becoming a fossil in the energy industry, but today it earned one more notch on its “time to retire” board. Thanks to a hazard map released today by the U.S. Geological Survey (the USGS), Oklahoma is on its way to danger …