In the movie Inception, there is a character named Saito. Saito enters the dream world with a purpose, but ends up getting trapped there, unable to escape. After many decades pass — with his mind confined to the illusory world — the young Saito grows into an old man who forgets that he is in a dream. Life before the dream becomes nothing to him but an opaque and distant memory.

These trains don't break the laws of physics, but rather harness them in a way that results in a round-trip energy surplus.

After graduating from Columbia University with a chemical engineering degree, my grandfather went on to work for Pfizer for almost two decades, culminating his career as the company’s Global Director of New Products. I was rather proud of this fact growing up — it felt as if this father figure, who raised me for several years during my childhood, had somehow played a role in saving lives.

In 2015, CEO Dan Price​ raised the salary of everyone at his Seattle-based credit card processing company Gravity Payments to at least $70,000 a year.

Paleoanthropologists have sketched a rough timeline of how human evolution played out, centering the early action in Africa.

Big pharma maintains drugs prices are massive because of the cost of drug R&D.

Once nuclear’s strongest booster, China is growing wary about its cost and safety.

The economic benefits of illicit financial activity vastly outweigh the costs of litigation, according to new research, and trying to combat crime through punishments based on extrinsic utility such as fines is less effective than ethics-centered methods that focus on a combination of intrinsic and altruistic motivations.

Most people think of trust as active – you place your trust in someone or you don't. But weak cybersecurity, like leaving your front door unlocked, is a matter of trust, too.

Activists and local people tell how they forced the release of two men detained in an enforcement van in a dawn raid.

The virus may have been born in South-East Asia. An intriguing observation: the low incidence of covid-19 in South-East Asia, particularly in Vietnam despite no lockdowns.

If you're one of the Google Drive users who is taking advantage of unlimited storage for $12 per month on G Suite, beware. Workspace is replacing G Suite

Countries that embraced renewable sources of energy have significantly cut their carbon emissions, but nations pursuing nuclear power failed to do so, researchers have found

The 1950s was a different time for car design. It represented an abstract belief of the future. Take Ford's nuclear-powered concept as one example.

One of Facebook's biggest headaches leading up to 2020 isn't election interference or fake news — it's worrying about what a Democrat in the White House could mean for the business.

One of the biggest ironies of the right-wing trope accusing socialists of wanting “free stuff” is that in reality, the entire capitalist economy would immediately collapse if it couldn’t continue to rely on free stuff. Without free or artificially cheap access to things like natural resources, care work, labor and a whole array of other elements, capitalism could not stay afloat. In fact, the only way that capitalism was ever able to even emerge was through a process of “primitive accumulation” — where things like slavery and colonialism were utilized to extract free labor and resources.

Even 20-year-olds forget the simplest things.

A Nucor steel plant in Missouri will be the first in the U.S. powered by wind energy, while an old steel facility in Colorado is transitioning to solar from Xcel Energy. These renewable-energy sources for recycled steel will make a dent in steel's carbon footprint. The industry contributes as much as 7% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Your collection of old macOS installer disk images is now worthless, and Apple has changed where it hides downloadable copies. Yet there are still good reasons to get old OSes, and here's how to do it.

A proposal (pdf) recently approved by the state's Public Service Commission (PSC) at Ravenswood's generating station in Long Island will see the construction of the world's largest battery storage facility that will help to "offset dirtier resources and enhance New…

“you ever chop before?” Willena Scott-White was testing me. I sat with her in the cab of a Chevy Silverado pickup truck, swatting at the squadrons of giant, fluttering mosquitoes that had invaded the interior the last time she opened a window. I was spending the day with her family as they worked their fields just outside Ruleville, in Mississippi’s Leflore County. With her weathered brown hands, Scott-White gave me a pork sandwich wrapped in a grease-stained paper towel. I slapped my leg. Mosquitoes can bite through denim, it turns out.

When heartburn or ulcer pain strikes, drugs can target stomach acid to calm bellies and offer relief. But a new study suggests the medications may come with a hive-inducing side effect: allergies.

Pushes to “recycle” plastics are one element of a massive industry-led effort to suppress meaningful efforts to reduce plastic waste.

We routinely misinterpret patients' wishes around medical interventions. Dr. Fred Mirarchi may have a way to fix that.

Cyclists can be a nuisance, running red lights, riding on the pavement ... but are they dangerous, and if not, is it a problem if they break the law?

Newly discovered billion-year-old fossilised fungi are more than twice as old as previous finds, and suggest that fungi may have been preparing Earth's lands for plant life for millions of years.

I have been a pilot for 30 years, a software developer for more than 40. I have written extensively about both aviation and software engineering. Now it’s time for me to write about both together. The Boeing 737 Max has been in the news because of two crashes, practically back to back and involving brand new airplanes. In an industry that relies more than anything on the appearance of total control, total safety, these two crashes pose as close to an existential risk as you can get.

In June, the Environmental Protection Agency released the results of its assessment of 52 chemicals and the likelihood that any of them could be classified as endocrine disruptors—those substances known to interfere with the hormonal system and linked to such health ills as certain cancers, birth defects, and developmental disorders. On the list of chemicals the agency examined was glyphosate, which most Americans know better as Roundup...

I know, I know, dunking on the Wall Street Journal editorial board is a bit like smacking your four-year-old nephew’s would-be jumper out of the air before it even leaves his hands. But in an Op-Ed last week it peddled the tired and disingenuous notion that electric cars, by the very virtue of their production, pollute more than fossil fuel cars. This is wrong, and it cannot stand.

Internet blackouts deprive people of impartial information and crucial connections with loved ones, without delivering improved safety or stability.