Paolo Baker

Gender Pay Gap? Maybe Not in the Corner Office, a Study Shows

The pay gap between men and women has rightly become an important topic of conversation in offices and boardrooms across the country. Despite the efforts of some companies to address the disparity, women last year earned 82 percent of what men earned, according to a Pew Research Center report. The …

Saudi-led airstrike at Yemen wedding killed at least 20

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — An airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition hit a wedding party in northern Yemen, killing at least 20 people including the bride, health officials said Monday, as harrowing images emerged on social media of the deadly bombing, the third to hit Yemeni civilians since the …

The One Lesson from the James Comey Interview that Leaders Absolutely Cannot Ignore

Forget what the ex-FBI director said about Trump. Remember what he said about hubris.<p>Everybody's talking about James Comey's explosive interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos. But while there were lots of juicy facts and blistering opinions, one statement stood out to me. You might have …

Escape from Proxima b

A civilization in the habitable zone of a dwarf star like Proxima Centauri might find it hard to get into interstellar space with conventional rockets

If You Thought Quantum Mechanics Was Weird, Wait Till You Hear About Entangled Time

In the summer of 1935, the physicists Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrödinger engaged in a rich, multifaceted and sometimes fretful correspondence …

If I Die, Do All My Quantum Selves Die, Too?

We hope you are either very clever or very high for this oneThe reality you think you’re living in isn’t what you think it is.That’s according to …

Are there extra dimensions lurking at the quantum scale?

Our universe has three spatial dimensions – or rather, three that our human senses can actively perceive. Some theories suggest there could be many …

18 mind-bending sci-fi movies to watch after Annihilation

Hundreds Of Australians Gathered To Say “Wow” In Honor Of Owen Wilson

The world feels especially divisive these days, and it can often seem like there are more things keeping us from connecting than the common unifiers. Even still, it seems that every once in a while, something particularly strange comes along and brings people together in an unexpected way. Today’s …

California police worked with neo-Nazis to pursue 'anti-racist' activists, documents show

Officers expressed sympathy with white supremacists and sought their help to target counter-protesters after a violent 2016 rally, according to court documents<p>California police investigating a violent white nationalist event worked with white supremacists in an effort to identify counter-protesters …

Scientists Observe Incredible New Kind of Ice Thought to Exist in Uranus' Center

Here is an ice cube you do not want to put in your Diet Coke: A solid lattice of oxygen atoms with protons whizzing around inside of it. This ice is …

FakeApp lets you recast Nicolas Cage into any movie using AI

Not the B movies!<p>History is full of “what if” questions. What if President Kennedy had survived his assassination, for example, or what if Germany …

Multiverse Thought Experiment Suggests Life Could Still Exist Under Different Laws of Physics

Perhaps we’re not alone but instead reside in a multiverse stocked with all sorts of fantastical realms. These other universes are somewhat—but not …

TV channel Spike is no longer, so its social media manager had a field day

Better to go out with a bang than a whimper, we guess.<p>TV channel Spike is going to be rebranded as the Paramount Network on Thursday, as owner Viacom …

Morons are obsessed with ‘raw water’ that will probably make them sick

In case you haven’t noticed, Silicon Valley is obsessed with health, or at least the <i>appearance</i> of health. You can see evidence of it just about …

2018 movies we can't wait to see: Mutants, monsters, and a merc with a mouth

We just finished a pretty fantastic year for fans of science fiction and fantasy movies, so 2018 has a lot to live up to.<p>There was something for …

Astronauts Have Identified Unknown Microbes in Space For The First Time

No aliens... yet.<p>Wheresoe'er humans roam, there you will also find microbes. It's just a fact of life - we contaminate everything we touch.<p>Which …

Emily Ratajkowski's New Year's Eve Top Plunged Far Enough to Make Your Jaw Drop

Emily Ratajkowski spent New Year's Eve with friends in NYC posing for photos with a fancy, furry stole swung over her shoulder, but underneath, the supermodel wore a black lace Asos bodysuit ($28, originally $40) with a neckline that plunged <i>very</i> far south. The look was sexy and stunning, as per …

Deadpool in real-life: Humans might one day be able to re-grow missing limbs, scientists claim

Could we be like Deadpool in real-life? Scientists claim that humans might one day be able to re-grow missing limbs<p>What if someone tells you that you …

California suspect held in hoax that led to police killing Kansas man

(Reuters) - A 25-year-old Los Angeles man was arrested in the city on suspicion of making a hoax phone call that led a police officer in Kansas to kill an unarmed man at a home where the caller said hostages were being held, authorities said on Saturday.<p>The arrest of Tyler Barriss took place on …