Instead, as anyone with a bit of common sense and travelling experience knows, it's humanity's favorite sleep-related cure-alls: caffeine and naps.
These have been key to the IPCC's conclusions that the planet's surface is warming and that humanity's greenhouse gas emissions are very likely to be responsible.
Why did he think of America's most famous natural wonder as he experienced humanity's violent mastery of nature?
They said glacier wastage had been seriously underestimated by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is trying to assess humanity's influence on the global climate.
Kurzweil's human-machine symbiosis is not a techno-catastrophe but the ultimate liberation from humanity's biological frailties.
Yet when you consider the herculean challenge of getting it here, even in today's high-tech world, you can't help feeling awestruck by the natural world and humanity's relative insignificance.
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Humanity's finest hour was achieved through, and often in spite of, a clash of giant personalities.
You would be hard put to find a more learnedly concise survey of humanity's journey.
Why else would California have Silicon Valley but to invent precisely such solutions to humanity's problems?
Needle, knife, abacus, eyeglasses: These are my favorite tools when I think about humanity's origins and future.
He examines every aspect of humanity's perception, and misperception, of things small since the dawn of time.
Behind us, we leave a century full of humanity's capacity for the worst, and its genius for the best.
Innovation and collaboration, both important drivers in the Odyssey Moon team, are the key to humanity's future, believes Richards.
The result, when combined with new techniques of genetic analysis, has been a revolution in the understanding of humanity's past.
Psychology, too, is undergoing a makeover and the result is a second revolution, this time in the understanding of humanity's present.
Viruses usually have to be rendered inert to work in humanity's favor, as anyone who has received a flu shot can attest.
As humans mainly lived close to the water, a large majority of humanity's development took place on areas that are now submerged.
This is especially true for humanity's wonderfully zany outliers: artists, inventors, entrepreneurs.
But the outlines of a science of human evolution that can explain humanity's success, and also its continuing failings, are now in place.
Such juxtapositions tell the story of humanity's best and worst impulses brought to bear upon an environment which may be irrevocably altered within our lifetimes.
Islam also acknowledges the importance of the female gender in providing the guarantee for humanity's sustenance and development, without which the edifice of society would crumble.
But there is growing interest in the study of happiness, not just among geneticists but also among economists and policymakers dissatisfied with current ways of measuring humanity's achievements.
It will ensure not only that Johns Hopkins helps to solve humanity's problems, but also that it leads the world's universities in showing how it should be done.
When Lord May, the former chief scientist of Britain, said in September that religion might be needed to secure humanity's future, he was denounced by fellow secularists as a traitor.
It is one of humanity's greatest achievements and opportunities.
Cetacean brains are also, scaled appropriately for body size, almost as big as those of humans and significantly bigger than those of great apes, which are usually thought of as humanity's closest intellectual cousins.
"These models are now used by scientists in order to develop new antibiotics, directly assisting the saving of lives and decreasing humanity's suffering, " said the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which awards the prize.
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People blame technology for humanity's problems, he says.
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