A Boston University-led research team has discovered a dopamine signal in the brain that helps determine whether you are moving toward or away from a goal, potentially shedding new light on how the brain uses visual information to guide behavior….
Researchers at Cranfield University have created WANDER-bot, a low-cost, 3D-printed robot that is powered by wind energy. Designed to spend long durations in hostile, windy environments such as certain deserts, polar regions or even other…
Sang Won Han, an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Sungkyunkwan University (co-first author), in collaboration with Shinjae Won, an Associate Professor of Management and Strategy at Ewha Womans University, has published a study in the Strategic…
Imagine that plants could tell us exactly when they’re stressed, infected, or being eaten by insects, by lighting up. A new study led by Dr. Karen Sarkisyan, Head of the Synthetic Biology group at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS), has…
On July 5-6, 1978, on a busy downtown Denver street, 19 people in wheelchairs blocked public buses–which didn’t have wheelchair lifts–to demand access to public transit.
Look around your home. A food wrapper, a shampoo bottle, a couch cushion and many other items very likely contain synthetic chemicals that were never tested for long-term safety before reaching store shelves. In most countries, chemicals are…
Ten days after founder Jay Graber stepped aside as CEO, the decentralised social platform has disclosed a $100 million Series B led by Bain Capital Crypto, a round that closed last April but was never announced. The…
Google declined to comment beyond the blog post it released about its DarkSword findings. WIRED also reached out to PARS Defense via its X account but didn’t immediately receive a response.
According to Lookout, DarkSword…
Missile strikes on Qatar’s Ras Laffan industrial complex on March 19 are testing a core assumption underpinning modern LNG infrastructure—that scale and efficiency can be maintained without sacrificing resilience.
The latest attack on Ras…
