Stephen Johnson

Stephen Johnson

Executive Editor, Big Think

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Stephen Johnson is Executive Editor at Big Think. His writing has appeared in PBS, U.S. News & World Report, and newspapers and magazines across the Midwest. He lives in St. Louis.

"At this point our data is more valuable than oil," Yang said. "If anyone benefits from our data it should be us."
The recent discovery highlights an alarming cybersecurity vulnerability in the health care industry.
In Canada and Austria, there are some signs that the young Swedish activist is already reshaping the political landscape.
Is former Vice President Joe Biden's "return to normalcy" approach too moderate for Democratic voters?
It will be available in select Canadian locations starting Sept. 30.
The new feature uses Amazon's neural text-to-speech technology, which allows it to produce phrases that weren't priorly recorded.
Musk also said that "anonymous bot swarms" should be investigated.
Octopuses are known to rapidly change colors during sleep, but it's still unclear whether they dream like humans do.
A new study shows that nearly 40 percent of Americans report being stressed out by U.S. politics.
For Black Hole Week, NASA released a mesmerizing animation of what a black hole probably looks like.
Bio-plastics could prove to be a suitable alternative to single-use plastics.
A new study shows two potential benefits of undergoing a painful ritual.
But few critics actually addressed the science on climate change.
The robotics company is allowing select companies to lease the semi-autonomous robot.
Norway plans to pay Gabon $150 million to protect its vast network of rainforests.
Such a battery would make it far cheaper to implement robotaxis and long-haul electric trucks, both of which Tesla is developing.
The week-long global protest, which is calling for an end to the age of fossil fuels, is taking place in more than 160 countries today.
Can Impossible Foods beat other brands — like Beyond Meat and Tyson — in the war to dominate the alternative meat industry?
The move comes one day before more than 1,500 Amazon employees are set to walk off the job as part of the global climate strikes.
Some critics say the move is designed to shield those who profited from the dangerous drug.