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After more than eight years of planning and a 254-day journey through the cold emptiness of space, NASA’s Curiosity rover has finally landed on Mars. Curiosity is the most …
NASA’s boldness paid off when the rover Curiosity, a 1 ton, 6-wheeled robot, successfully landed on the surface of Mars exactly as planned at 10:31pm Pacific time.
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Bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell says it takes 10,000 hours to become expert at something, whether it’s playing the guitar, charting the stars, or writing software code. In …
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Around the world, you regularly see stories about an attempt to create ”The Silicon Valley of <fill in country>,” but you rarely read about a successful new …
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To combat corruption, a small group of entrepreneurs in the Indian government called the Unique Identification Authority has been rolling out a program to use biometrics — …
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Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, recently showed that kindergartners beat business-school graduates in a simple innovation test.
Ries, who just joined the team at …
Guest Post Physicists at CERN believe they have found the elusive Higgs boson particle.
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Twenty years ago, U.S. healthcare cost $2,800, on average, per person. Ten years ago, that figure had risen to $4,700 per person. And four years ago, in 2008, it was $7,500 per person, according to this Kaiser Family Foundation Report. …
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Education is undergoing an incredible and exciting transformation, but I can’t help but wonder if the “experts” can’t see the forest for the trees. We are continuing to see roiling debates from the likes of my colleagues such as Vivek …
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We are all unknowingly addicts. Addicts of bad news. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, the news media is feeding us negative stories on every digital device in their arsenal: mobile phones, tablets, computers, radio, television, and newsfeeds. …
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Many people believe that we’ve run out of ideas and that the future will be one of bleak shortages of food, energy, and water. Billionaire Peter Thiel, for example, argues that, despite spectacular advances in computer-related fields, technological progress has …
Futurist Ray Kurzweil believes that health and medicine are going to benefit in the next two decades from what he calls the law of accelerating returns. That idea comes from Kurzweil’s 2005 book “The Singularity is Near,” and it reflects …
