In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

India is preparing for a major shift in its energy strategy with a new plan to produce LPG, petrol, and diesel from coal. The government has approved a ₹37,500 crore initiative aimed at reducing ...

"We must turn the urban and suburban automobile into an effective "mass transit" vehicle. Somewhere between 30 and 35 million automobile are used each day mainly to go back and forth to work. This ...

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories and Auburn University have developed a new method to more accurately detect atomic-scale defects in electronic materials, an advance that could help improve ...

In a press release late last month, FCC chairman Brendan Carr said “We must bring meaningful robocall relief to consumers.” In another press release two days later, the commission wrote that “Stopping ...

Necessity, so the old saying goes, is the mother of invention, and few stories illustrate that truth more vividly than that of a young Kenyan innovator named Joseph Nguthiru. What began as a ...

Your security spend has roughly doubled in six years. Your time-to-investigate and respond hasn't moved. Your CFO is asking why the security headcount keeps growing while the metrics that matter to ...

Using AI chatbots for even just 10 minutes may have a shockingly negative impact on people’s ability to think and problem-solve, according to a new study from researchers at Carnegie Mellon, MIT, ...

The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we dive into fascinating ideas from around the universe. You can sign up for Lost in Space-Time here. Cosmic inflation ...

While textile-to-textile recycling using post-industrial waste has grown in recent years, the process of converting post-consumer garments into new fibers hasn’t quite gotten off the ground in the ...

“ I'd never felt anything like that in my life. It genuinely felt like I wasn't going to make it to morning.” In the 38th week of Adaugo Adebimpe’s pregnancy, she went to the hospital feeling ill. Her ...

There’s a technology sitting idle in garages and driveways across America that provides a solution to its own potential problem. As more and more electric vehicles tap the grid, their giant batteries ...