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Robocalls are unstoppable – 3 questions answered about why your phone won't...
Caller ID won't always tell you it's a robot doing the dialing.LightField Studios/Shutterstock.comEditor’s note: When your phone rings, there’s about a 50 percent chance it’s a spam robocall. That’s...
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Gene-edited food regulations: whether it's a plant or animal shouldn't...
Cows at the University of California, Davis beef research facility. Photo credit: Alison Van Eenennaam/ University of California, Davis, CC BY-NC-SAWe eat mutations every day. All the vegetables,...
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Newly discovered cold-tolerant plants from Siberia could promote clean bioenergy
A stand of _Miscanthus_ x _giganteus_ at the University of Illinois's Energy Farm. Brian Stauffer/University of Illinois, CC BY-SAClimate change is an urgent threat to societies around the world,...
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Cultured meat seems gross? It's much better than animal agriculture
World's first lab-grown beef burger. Would you eat it?David Parry / PA Wire, CC BY-NDThe world is in the grips of a food-tech revolution. One of the most compelling new developments is cultured meat,...
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China is catching up to the US on artificial intelligence research
The U.S. may be ahead for now, but not by much.onime/Shutterstock.comResearchers, companies and countries around the world are racing to explore – and exploit – the possibilities of artificial...
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Listening in to brain communications, without surgery
Signals from inside the brain can reveal what's happening in nerve cells.Peshkova/Shutterstock.comPlenty of legitimate science– plus a whole lot of science fiction– discusses ways to “hack the brain.”...
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'Micro snails' we scraped from sidewalk cracks help unlock details of ancient...
A live _Padaungiella lageniformis_ wiggles its pseudopods.Daniel J. G. Lahr, CC BY-NDEvery step you take, you’re likely walking on a world of unseen and undescribed microbial diversity. And you don’t...
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How SpaceX lowered costs and reduced barriers to space
Minutes after launching the Falcon Heavy rocket, SpaceX was livestreaming footage from the Tesla Roadster it released into space.SpaceX, CC BY-NC-SAOn March 2, SpaceX plans to launch its first test of...
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Lightweight of periodic table plays big role in life on Earth
The Periodic Table of the ElementsPanimoni/Shutterstock.comAlthough hydrogen is the lightweight of the chemical elements, it packs a real punch when it comes to its role in life and its potential as a...
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Autonomous drones can help search and rescue after disasters
Are there people down there who need help?Roschetzky Photography/Shutterstock.comWhen disasters happen – whether a natural disaster like a flood or earthquake, or a human-caused one like a mass...
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Mining the Moon
Artist's depiction of a moon base with a view of Earth in the distance. Pavel Chagochkin/Shutterstock.comIf you were transported to the Moon this very instant, you would surely and rapidly die. That’s...
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Opioid crisis shows partnering with industry can be bad for public health
What is each partner looking to get?Africa Studio/Shutterstock.com“Show me the bodies!” someone demanded at the end of my lecture a few years ago.As a scholar of public health ethics, law and policy, I...
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A cure for HIV? Feasible but not yet realized
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), shown here as tiny purple spheres, causes the disease known as AIDS. Mark Ellisman and Tom Deerinck, National Center for Microscopy and Imaging ResearchThis week...
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Artificial intelligence must know when to ask for human help
Sometimes the questions become too much for artificial intelligence systems.sdecoret/Shutterstock.comArtificial intelligence systems are powerful tools for businesses and governments to process data...
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University of California's break with the biggest academic publisher could...
Libraries subscribe digitally to academic journals – and are left with nothing in the stacks when the contract expires.Eric Chan/Flickr, CC BYThe University of California recently made international...
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Mass-market electric pickup trucks and SUVs are on the way
A new plug-in electric truck is in development, along with an electric SUV.Richard Truesdell/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SAElectric vehicles – specifically, the Tesla Model 3 – are dominating the U.S....
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Ancient DNA is a powerful tool for studying the past – when archaeologists...
New technology means accessing new information from ancient human remains, some which have been in collections for decades.Elizabeth Sawchuk, CC BY-NDDNA has moved beyond esoteric science and into the...
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Humans and machines can improve accuracy when they work together
Let's work together.Olena Yakobchuk/Shutterstock.comWhether artificial intelligence systems steal humans’ jobs or create new work opportunities, people will need to work together with them.In my...
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US military steps up cyberwarfare effort
The U.S. military is shifting the focus of its cyberwarfare forces.U.S. Air ForceThe U.S. military has the capability, the willingness and, perhaps for the first time, the official permission to...
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Old stone walls record the changing location of magnetic north
The orientations of the stone walls that crisscross the Northeastern U.S. can tell a geomagnetic tale as well as a historical one.John Delano, CC BY-NDWhen I was a kid living in southern New Hampshire,...
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