Category: 3. Tech

You can basically copy and paste that line into countless stories about today’s advanced reactor technology. Molten-salt cooling systems? Invented in the mid-20th century but never commercialized. Same for several alternative fuels, like…

How does climate change influence school attendance? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated how…

AI-generated deepfake videos depicting humans are getting more advanced, and more common, by the day. The most sophisticated tools can now produce…

How close are we to genuine “mind reading?”

Technically speaking, neuroscientists have been able to read your mind for decades. It’s not easy, mind you. First, you must lie motionless within a fMRI scanner, perhaps for hours, while you…

A team of biotech startups want to create lab-grown leather based on fossil remnants of the king of dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus rex.

This ambitious project is a collaboration between The Organoid Company, a Netherlands-based genomic engineering…

“I hope that people use [SHADES] as a diagnostic tool to identify where and how there might be issues in a model,” says Talat. “It’s a way of knowing what’s missing from a model, where we can’t be confident that a model performs well,…

What methods can be used to cool the atmosphere and reduce the impact of climate change? This is what a recent study published in Earth’s Future hopes to address as an international team of researchers…

What can magnetized stars, commonly called magnetars, teach astronomers about the distribution of heavy elements throughout the universe? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal…

It was a rough start to the week for the Department of Defense. On April 29, sailors aboard the USS Harry S. Truman witnessed a $60-70 million fighter…