Robotics

Social Media Algorithms Warp How People Learn from Each Other

Social Media Algorithms Warp How People Learn from Each...

SIN Aug 25, 2023 0 50

Social media companies’ drive to keep you on their platforms clashes with how pe...

How Archaeological Methods Are Helping Identify Victims of the Hawaii Wildfires

How Archaeological Methods Are Helping Identify Victims...

SIN Aug 25, 2023 0 22

Identifying wildfire victims through DNA is difficult, but archaeological method...

How Wealthy UFO Fans Helped Fuel Fringe Beliefs

How Wealthy UFO Fans Helped Fuel Fringe Beliefs

SIN Aug 25, 2023 0 22

There is a long U.S. legacy of plutocrat-funded pseudoscience. Congress just emb...

Artificial Intelligence Is Helping Us 'See' Some of the Billions of Birds Migrating at Night

Artificial Intelligence Is Helping Us 'See' Some of the...

SIN Aug 25, 2023 0 23

Science is turning to machines to unlock the secrets of the vast, mysterious pul...

There Are No U.S. 'Climate Havens' from Heat and Disaster Risk

There Are No U.S. 'Climate Havens' from Heat and Disast...

SIN Aug 25, 2023 0 32

Even supposed “climate havens” in the U.S. face a riskier future, and infrastruc...

The Colors of Stars, Explained

The Colors of Stars, Explained

SIN Aug 25, 2023 0 23

From dim red to brilliant blue, stellar colors span the spectrum—and reveal how ...

Brain-reading Devices Allow Paralyzed People to Talk Using Their Thoughts

Brain-reading Devices Allow Paralyzed People to Talk Us...

SIN Aug 25, 2023 0 50

Two studies report considerable improvements in technologies designed to help pe...

Scientists Tried to Re-create an Entire Human Brain in a Computer. What Happened?

Scientists Tried to Re-create an Entire Human Brain in ...

SIN Aug 25, 2023 0 23

The Human Brain Project wraps up in September after a decade. It had notable ach...

Meet the Physicist who Spoke Out against the Bomb She Helped Create

Meet the Physicist who Spoke Out against the Bomb She H...

SIN Aug 24, 2023 0 43

After atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear physicist Kat...

At Debate, Republican Presidential Candidates Tout Fossil Fuels, Vow to Undo Biden's Climate Initiatives

At Debate, Republican Presidential Candidates Tout Foss...

SIN Aug 24, 2023 0 28

Though Republican presidential candidates aimed to set themselves apart from Don...

Penguin Chicks Are Dying Off as Antarctic Sea Ice Disappears

Penguin Chicks Are Dying Off as Antarctic Sea Ice Disap...

SIN Aug 24, 2023 0 24

Record-low sea ice caused Emperor Penguin chicks to die across Antarctica last y...

Building Codes Save Money and Lives

Building Codes Save Money and Lives

SIN Aug 24, 2023 0 23

As climate change increases the number and severity of natural disasters, an inv...

Quantum Physics Can Explain Earth's Weather

Quantum Physics Can Explain Earth's Weather

SIN Aug 24, 2023 0 32

By treating Earth as a topological insulator—a state of quantum matter—physicist...

ChatGPT and Other Language AIs Are Nothing without Humans

ChatGPT and Other Language AIs Are Nothing without Humans

SIN Aug 24, 2023 0 17

Language model AIs seem smart because of how they string words together, but in ...

Student Loan Debt Takes a Toll on a Vulnerable Population's Mental Health

Student Loan Debt Takes a Toll on a Vulnerable Populati...

SIN Aug 24, 2023 0 31

Many young adults, facing the largest student loan burden in history, report dep...

Evidence Undermines 'Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria' Claims

Evidence Undermines 'Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria' Claims

SIN Aug 24, 2023 0 47

Fears of “social contagion,” used to support anti-transgender legislation, are n...

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