“The nature of these jobs, which often involve heavy physical demands and risk of injury … makes them difficult to fill and has led to concerns about an ongoing shortage in paid caregivers.” —“Automation in Everyday Life,” Pew Research Center […]
The most formal manifestation of the scientific consensus on climate change is an organization called the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Headquartered in Geneva, under the aegis of the United Nations, it coordinates the volunteer efforts of several thousand scientists, […]
Television's golden-statue extravaganza is finally here. Yes, that's correct; the 2018 Emmy Awards are upon us. There's a lot at stake in this year. Game of Thrones garnered an impressive 22 nominations, trailed by Westworld with 21. Nominees also include […]
Here’s a depressing number for you: 12. Just 12 percent of engineers in the United States are women. In computing it’s a bit better, where women make up 26 percent of the workforce—but that number has actually fallen from 35 […]
This week, we're witching, we're selling, and we're preserving the past. Things are going pretty nice this week on Replay, as massively multiplayer games get their due and so does Henry Cavill, who was totally underrated as Superman and also […]
When Etienne Schneider became Luxembourg's minister of the economy in 2012, one of his first trips abroad was to NASA’s Ames Research Center. It might have seemed strange for the tiny state's money man to solicit meetings with cosmic researchers, […]
The way the Nobel Committee tells it, the story of this year’s physics prize begins like a certain 1970s space opera. “Once upon a time, a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, two massive black holes engaged […]
As has become convention for our accelerated times, I first got word of Young Busco's death on Twitter. "Lmao bruh was legit hella funny RIP," @ChillyANT wrote in a tweet that included a minute-long compilation video showcasing Busco's routine antics: […]
What happens when you see bad physics in the world? Does it make you angry? Does it make you laugh? Do you have to hold back a tidal wave of "well, actuallys" because of the overwhelming wrongness? Some might feel […]
On a frigid day last January in northern Sweden, a German-led team of physicists loaded a curious machine onto an unmanned rocket. The payload, about as tall as a single-story apartment, was essentially a custom-made freezer—a vacuum chamber, with a […]