Category: 3. Tech

Thermo Scientific™ SampleManager™ LIMS software is a…

The pair of climate researchers from the Desert Research Institute (DRI) in Reno, Nevada, skied down to this research plot in the middle of the resort to test out a new way to take the temperature of the Sierra Nevada snowpack. They were…

Conspiracy theories about cell phone towers and wireless communication have…

How can programming languages be used to identify harmful environmental pollutants? This is what a recent study published in Nature Methods hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated developed a…

Scientists have used many years of data to show that the average air and ocean temperatures of Earth are steadily increasing because of human-caused emissions of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide or…

Companies like Flock and Axon sell suites of sensors—cameras, license plate readers, gunshot detectors, drones—and then offer AI tools to make sense of that ocean of data (at last year’s conference I saw schmoozing between countless…

In patent law, this moment is known as conception—the instant a lightbulb appears over an inventor’s head, revealing a definite and workable plan for how an invention is going to function.

In 2022, a specialized body called the Patent Trial…

How can imaging Mars in infrared help NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft be better prepared as it continues its journey to Jupiter? This is what a team of scientists hope to address as Europa Clipper tested…

What can the largest geomagnetic storm in decades teach scientists about extreme solar activity and how to prepare for it? This is what a recent study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research Space…