Robotics

How the Daughter of Sharecroppers Revolutionized Presch...

Flemmie Pansy Kittrell, the first Black woman to earn a Ph.D. in nutrition in 19...

New Training Method Helps AI Generalize like People Do

To improve machine learning, the answer might be taking a different approach to ...

Humans Absorb Bias from AI--And Keep It after They Stop...

People may learn from and replicate the skewed perspective of an artificial inte...

Doctors Do Racist Things to Patients. Here Are Seven Wa...

Physicians need to be aware of how their choice of words and patient labels affe...

Space Junk Is Polluting Earth's Stratosphere with Vapor...

Defunct satellites and other pieces of orbital debris are pumping metals into Ea...

Hurricane Otis Came Out of Nowhere to Slam into Mexico

Tropical Storm Otis rapidly intensified into a Category 5 hurricane overnight in...

We Are Racing Toward Earth's Catastrophic Tipping Points

Temperatures are skyrocketing. Extinctions are accelerating. Groundwater is bein...

Astronomers May Have Witnessed Worlds in Collision

A planet-vaporizing impact is the leading explanation for a distant star’s curio...

Does Humanity Have to Eat Meat?

Meat-eating may not have made us human after all, say paleoanthropologists

The Tale of the Rotifer That Came Back to Life after 25...

Can something spring back to life if it last moved around when woolly mammoths r...

Can a Bad Night's Sleep Trigger a Migraine?

Scientists have found a feedback loop between poor sleep and migraine attacks, a...

The World Solved Acid Rain. We Can Also Solve Climate C...

Lessons from how we tackled acid rain can be applied to our world today

Depleted Groundwater Could Be Refilled by Borrowing a T...

In many places around the world, groundwater is being pumped out faster than nat...

'Modified' Gravity May Make Planet Nine Disappear

Strange patterns in the orbits of small objects in the outer solar system could ...

Global Fossil-Fuel Demand Can Peak Before 2030--Here's How

It’s possible for fossil-fuel demand to peak before the end of the decade, but e...

Flesh-Eating Bacteria Cases Spiked in Florida after Hur...

A recent study found that Hurricane Ian led to a spike in cases of vibriosis, a ...

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