This Is How Your Brain Responds to Social Influence . I’m a doormat when it comes to peer pressure. Jump off a 32-foot (10 meter) diving board without any experience? Sure! Propel off a cliff my first time outdoor climbing? I’ll try!

Those were obviously ...

Scientists Used Protein Switches to Turn T Cells Into Cancer-Fighting Guided Missiles . One of the main challenges in curing cancer is that unlike foreign invaders, tumor cells are part of the body and so able to hide in plain sight. Now researchers have found a way to turn white blood ce...

Moore's Law Lives: Intel Says Chips Will Pack 50 Times More Transistors . If you weren’t already convinced the digital world is taking over, you probably are now.

To keep the economy on life support as people stay home to stem the viral tide, we’ve been forced to digitize in...

6G Will Be 100 Times Faster Than 5G—and Now There’s a Chip for It . Though 5G—a next-generation speed upgrade to wireless networks—is scarcely up and running (and still nonexistent in many places) researchers are already working on what comes next. It lacks an official...

We're Using Microbes to Clean Up Toxic Electronic Waste. Here's How . If you were to stack up all the electronic waste produced annually around the world it would weigh as much as all the commercial aircrafts ever produced, or 5,000 Eiffel towers. This is a growing “tsun...

A Norwegian Startup Is Turning Dry Deserts Into Fertile Cropland . The UN population forecast predicts that by 2050 there will be almost 10 billion people on the planet. They’ll live mostly in cities and have an older median age than the current global population. One...

Scientists Found a Way to Turn Bricks Into Batteries . One of the biggest barriers to the renewable energy revolution is working out how to store power when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow. Now scientists have shown standard construction br...

New Algorithm Paves the Way Towards Error-Free Quantum Computing . No one likes noise when they’re working through a difficult problem. Quantum computers are no different, and now researchers have devised a new way to estimate how noise can throw their calculations of...

These Sleek Houses Are 3D Printed, and They Fit in Your Backyard . If you’d told me ten years ago that I could go live in a house built by a giant concrete-spitting 3D printer, I not only would’ve thought you were crazy, I wouldn’t have known what you were talking abo...

An Indian Company Is Gearing Up to Make Millions of Doses of a $3 Covid-19 Vaccine . As the Covid-19 pandemic drags on, there’s one thing we’re all counting on to rescue us from the drudgery of socially-distanced life: a vaccine.

How many times have you heard “X won’t happen again unti...