Shutterstock In 1919, Albert Einstein pulled one of the cockiest moves of all time when he promised to give any Nobel Prize money he might happen to win in the future to his ex-wife, who took custody of their two sons…
Image: AP The genome editing technology CRISPR revolutionized genetic engineering by allowing scientists to cut and paste tiny snippets of DNA with more precision than ever before. Now, one of the groups responsible for that technology has harnessed the power…
Photo: AP Physicist Albert Einstein, one of history’s greatest minds, has been proven right in the long term about a lot of things, like the continued success of his theory of general relativity to aspects of that theory which eluded…
Australian company Cochlear has teamed up with Apple to release the world’s first cochlear implant sound processor made for iPhone. The Nucleus 7 sound processor will allow users to stream sounds directly to their Cochlear implant from their iPhone, iPad…
When I give the dating app LoveFlutter my Twitter handle, it rewards me with a 28-axis breakdown of my personality: I’m an analytic Type A who’s unsettlingly sex-focused and neurotic (99th percentile). On the sidebar where my “Personality Snapshot” is…
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Many pithy, memorable famous last words are posthumous fiction. Conflicting historical accounts and sparse witnesses make them hard to verify. The reality of famous figures’ deaths tends to be more sobering. Don’t trust everything you read on the internet —…
So many people read Stephen Hawking’s thesis that it crashed Cambridge University’s site Image: Getty Images for Breakthrough Prize Foundation By Gianluca Mezzofiore2017-10-24 11:05:45 UTC News that the University of Cambridge made Stephen Hawking’s seminal doctoral thesis (on how universes…
‘Pay with Google’ wants to take the forms out of online shopping Image: Cultura/REX/Shutterstock By Monica Chin2017-10-23 19:47:14 UTC Google is about to make it way easier for you to shop online. The search giant’s new Pay with Google payment…
Photo via VisualHunt Core exercises will build up your abs, but they do nothing for the layer of fat on top of them. Likewise, no leg exercise can give you slimmer thighs. And yet headlines and tweets about shrinking specific…