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Protesters dressed as robots demand a basic income
Economics
Swiss voters reject a plan to give everyone a guaranteed basic income
Pills
Medicine
Why you’re likely better off with the generic drug instead of the brand name
Northeastern University law Professor Kara Swanson says the average wait time for an organ transplant is getting increasingly worse.
Health
A legal market for organs? It’s not as far-fetched as you think.
A house in Berkeley, Calif. decorated with old TV sets.
Media
Technology is creating many ways to binge on TV’s current golden age
Russian cosmonaut Sergey Ryazanskiy is pictured during a session of extravehicular activity (EVA) in support of assembly and maintenance on the International Space Station.
Science
Startups could hold the key to space travel’s future
Nowhere for cars in downtown Chicago to go — even with green lights.
Technology
Did you get stuck in traffic this morning? They’re trying to find out why
Even after he came up with E=mc2, young Albert Einstein was still unable to get a job teaching physics.
Science
Albert Einstein: The slacker years
Albert Einstein’s work made clear that clocks in space move at a different speed than clocks on Earth. Taking into account those differences is crucial to ensuring GPS’ accuracy.
Technology
The next time your GPS gets you somewhere on time, thank Albert Einstein
Army 1st Lt. Steven Rose launches an RQ-11 Raven unmanned aerial vehicle near a highway bridge project along the Euphrates River north of Taqqadum, Iraq.
Technology
As history shows, future wars will look very different
According to sociologist Toby Miller, our online activity has a real effect. If the Cloud were a country, it would have the fifth largest energy-consumption rate in the world.
Environment
Your Netflix binging might be hurting the planet
Children at school in India.
Development
The world is 4 million teachers short. Here’s how to solve that.
According to the US Census, 74 percent of those with a bachelor's degree in STEM subjects don't work in STEM jobs.
Education
Are we producing too many STEM grads?