In the 19th-century, society began to grapple with an emerging problem: How do you prove people are...
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Of all the data to which a hacker can gain access, your Social Security number is one...
Steampunk examines the consequences extraordinary medical discoveries can have on both individuals and societies. Abstract Influenced by...
Though the modern video gaming industry is constantly involved in the development and marketing of video games,...
The modern gaming industry is exceptionally engaging. You can play an awful lot of incredible games right...
Chinese advances in exploration and travel, industry, military technology, everyday objects, and disease prevention. Introduction Over the...
Mobile gaming is an enormously popular sector of the video games industry, making up almost half of...
The very first hack came in 1878 when a group of teenage boys, hired to run the...
Exploring archery technology, the production of bone tools and ground stone tools, flintknapping, and prehistoric pottery. Overview...
2.6-million-year-old tools from Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. Introduction The appearance of simple stone tools, widely known as...
Chinese investors have poured some $4 billion into Indian tech startups since 2015. By Sherisse Pham and...
A social media researcher explains how bots and sock puppet accounts manipulate and polarize public debate. Social...
Surveillance technology deployed to combat COVID-19 can quickly be used against civil freedoms. In the last few...
There is growing evidence that our closest extinct human relative wasn’t as dumb as scientists had long...
How to turn language, the core operating system of the humanities, into numbers. Stephen Mitchell suffered from...
The Transcontinental Railroad facilitated the colonization of western territories by encouraging new settlements on Indigenous lands. The...
The internet has allowed pseudoscience to flourish. Artificial intelligence could help steer people away from the bad...
Private companies are rushing to put thousands of small, inexpensive satellites in orbit, but low costs and...
Some countries, China most prevalent, are setting up separate root systems for their countries to “disconnect” from...
Cutting carbon use depends on changing social norms and behaviour as much as technology. Citizen action on...
Major technological breakthroughs — such as CO2 air capture — will be necessary to slow global warming....
Studying animal tooling can provide clues to the mysteries of human evolution. Human beings used to be...
Archaeological remains attest to a rise in urbanization in the 10th century BCE as reflected in building...
The first recorded observations of comets, solar eclipses, and supernovae were made in China. Introduction The history...
We have ample evidence that the constitution continues to be violated by the federal officials charged with...
As the country grew, each census required greater effort than the last. That problem led to the...
For Georgian Londoners, the allure of electric animals was both intellectual and sensual. By Ruth Garde / 04.06.2017 Curator,...
Thoreau’s attitude toward the railroad was foremost one of ambivalence. What’s The Railroad To Me? What’s the...
Beginning with a small psalm book that filled a basic need in the devotional lives of colonists,...
Many machinists even created their own variations of the difference engine after Babbage’s death. Introduction The 2008...