IARPA sets challenge to fact-check fact-checking methods
Fact-checking is a good thing, but who fact-checks the fact-checkers' methodologies? How do we know if the fact-checking methods actually...
Science
Read the latest science news, including NASA & the ESA’s developments in space, from The Sociable
Building Utopia: The pioneers behind the world’s most futuristic and experimental communities
The middle of the Nevada desert is home to one of the world's wildest yet most peaceful communities, Buring Man....
“A few grams of biological media in a tube will replace a million sq-ft data center”: Interview with Moji Karimi, cofounder of CEMVITA, the scientific startup inspired by nature
Mother nature is quite arguably one of the greatest architects of all time. Not only in its divine structures such a...
Tackling senior isolation and loneliness with technology and travel
Japan has now set a new world record with one in three people aged over 65, and the number is expected...
Lifestyle changes to be a happier person
According to research, only 3 out of 10 people are happy with their lives. It wouldn't be unfair to say...
The Sociable Round Up: Bitcoin’s rising power demand and the physicists saving healthcare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zORDJHxwUZQ&feature=youtu.be Experts comment on what Bitcoin’s rising power demand means for the currency’s future The physicists saving the world from...
Photonics: quantum entanglement or light-speed networks? EU Passion Project
A group of scientists backed by the EU's Horizon 2020 report that they have harnessed the power of photons to...
Operative Experience Announces RealMom 2.0, the World’s Most Advanced and Lifelike Childbirth Simulator for Delivery Training
Operative Experience Inc., a company that makes the world’s only hands-in-the-body medical simulators for obstetrics, trauma and surgical training, today...
John Snow Labs’ Natural Language Understanding Software Gets “State of the Art” Recognition in Three Industry Events
John Snow Labs, an award winning global data operations and AI company, today announces that its Natural Language Understanding Software,...
Ship2B Tech4Climate manager talks accelerating startups with social impact
As the Tech4Climate program manager for Spain's only private, not for profit accelerator focused on social impact, Ship2B, Juan Ignacio...
The physicists saving the world from the global healthcare crisis: Interview
Healthcare in the US is unquestionably a complex issue. Despite the president's previous remarks, healthcare has been a complicated matter...
Medicine or poison? On the ethics of AI implants in humans
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was born during the industrial revolution when the rushing age of machinery was thrust upon the globe...
‘She actually became fitter, healthier and far more social’: How dogs affect our well-being
Man's relationship with dogs dates back roughly 45,000 years. A long relationship to say the least. But there is good...
Edinburgh opens innovation centre for startups named in honor of Peter Higgs
Today the city of Edinburgh, Scotland inaugurates a new innovation centre offering startups direct access to world leading scientists, engineers, and...
Frank-Jürgen Richter on jointly inspiring our future ahead of Horasis Global Meeting: interview
Horasis Founder and Chairman Frank-Jürgen Richter chats with The Sociable on globalization, tech for good, and jointly inspiring our future ahead...
Can cannabis help tackle the opioid epidemic?
The US' relationship with drugs has been complex and confusing to say the least, but cannabis, legal or not, is...
Data science: the best job in 2018 and the startup shaking up this rising industry
If you are wondering what your purpose is, scrolling through job boards, unsure of what to do in 2018, perhaps...
Blaming the victim: what really influences our sense of control and culpability in society
The past year has been a defining moment in history for women. Women everywhere united in reaction to Donald Trumps...
Add this to your ‘To-Do list’ and fall asleep faster claims new research
For some, falling asleep can happen as quickly as the lights go out. For others, it can be a nightly...
On being mindful about multi-million mindfulness industry
Now that mindfulness is everywhere, what's the next step for the multi-million dollar industry? Mindfulness' dramatically increased popularity in recent...
