"I don’t think so, no... That said, there are currently new approaches being tested."
"But basically all mammals—rats, dogs, cats—also have REM sleep. And it’s during REM sleep that we take experience…
"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…
"The oldest sports—using that term loosely—would likely concern training for war or ritualized leisure activities…
"The future of the smartphone—or connection device(s)—will likely rely on more deeply engaging us sensorially as…
"It is clear that some animals become familiar and get along with group members that happen to be other species, but…
"These days, hurricane modification is considered almost a kind of fringe science. But that wasn’t always the case."
"People may believe in miracle cures in part because doing so helps to fulfill powerful psychological needs."
"It’s humbling... We did not foresee the levels of miscommunication we’d be faced with..."
"Isn’t there some all-powerful hammer—the proverbial silver bullet—that we can use to bring this spiraling problem…
"Even excluding conlangs (deliberately constructed languages like Esperanto or Klingon), new languages form…
"Using brain-machine interface technology to directly write in information to the brain... as in The Matrix... it’s…
"The systems underpinning air travel are so complex that change is inevitably incremental."
"It’s always a matter of hot debate in the research world."
"That would surely be the discovery and proof of global warming."