In our latest episode of Lexicon, we sat down with Vikhyat (“Vik”) Chaudhry, co-founder and CTO of Buzz Solutions, to explore how artificial intelligence (AI), drones, and thermal imaging are transforming the way utilities inspect and…
Yields are currently improving by 7 or 8 percent every month, according to Intel. But that could be building on pretty low initial yields—reporting from last summer suggested that just 10 percent of the chips coming off…
The discovery of a 13-atom sulfur ring in deep space links simple cosmic chemistry to the complex organic building blocks of life’s origins.
If you thought 2025 couldn’t get any crazier, the streaming world had one more surprise up its sleeve before the year ended.
Netflix, already the largest streaming platform with over 325 million subscribers, took a bold step by acquiring…
McGill University engineers have developed ultra-thin materials that can move, fold, and reshape themselves, opening new possibilities for soft robotics and adaptive devices.
The work uses graphene oxide films designed to behave like animated…
Astronomers have observed a Sun-like star dim dramatically for nearly nine months after being obscured by a vast cloud of gas and dust. A huge cloud filled with vaporized metals has been spotted blowing powerful winds, and it temporarily blocked…
A failed December effort to bring down parts of Poland’s energy grid was the work of Russian government hackers known for causing past energy disruptions, according to a security research firm that investigated the incident.
Last week,…
Early carbon light bulbs may have produced graphene, since applying voltage to carbon filaments mirrors what is now called flash Joule heating.
When people imagine the future, negative outcomes tend to provoke far stronger emotions than positive ones. A new study finds that anticipating a potential loss carries more than six times the emotional impact of imagining an equivalent gain, an…
The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos felt different this year, and not just because Meta and Salesforce took over storefronts on the main promenade. AI dominated the conversation in a way that overshadowed traditional…
