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This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article,“Backlash to transgender health care...
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article, “A surprising history of the 5th...
By Graham Gardner, Assistant Economics Professor, Texas Christian University This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative...
If you hadn’t heard about superconductors before 2023, odds are you know what they are now. Researchers raised eyebrows early in the year...
The rampant increase of hate messages on social media is a scourge in today’s technology-infused society. Racism, homophobia, xenophobia, and even...
In late November, the board of OpenAI, creator of the popular ChatGPT and DALL-E artificial intelligence tools, fired Sam Altman, its chief executive...
ChatGPT was launched on November 30, 2022, ushering in what many have called artificial intelligence’s breakout year. Within days of its release,...
A small group of children in Gaza sit on a lavender and white blanket around a small tray of beverages, singing the equivalent of “Happy Birthday”...
The TikTok profile Daily Believer (@believerdaily) has 70 videos with computer-generated Jesuses looking directly at the viewer, beseeching them to...
The First Amendment does not protect messages posted on social media platforms. The companies that own the platforms can—and do—remove, promote,...
Quantum advantage is the milestone the field of quantum computing is fervently working toward, where a quantum computer can solve problems that are...
Intensive livestock farming is a huge global industry that serves up millions of tons of beef, pork, and poultry every year. When I asked one producer...
What happens when you unite the biggest pop star in the world and a two-time Super Bowl champion? A whole lot of excitement, as the romance of Taylor...
When the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was signed in late 2021, it included $42.5 billion for broadband internet access as part of the...
Someone tracking the conflict raging in the Middle East could have seen the following two videos on social media. The first shows a little boy...
For decades, marketers of consumer goods designed highly adorned packages, deploying bold colors, snazzy text, cartoons, and illustrations to seize...
Cars are no longer just a means of transportation. They have become rolling hubs of data communication. Modern vehicles regularly transmit...
Patterns on animal skin, such as zebra stripes and poison frog color patches, serve various biological functions, including temperature regulation,...
When landing on the surface of the Moon, astronauts can become spatially disoriented, which is when they lose sense of their orientation (meaning they...
People fact-checked social media posts more carefully and were more willing to revise their initial beliefs when they were paired with someone from a...
The cars, cellphones, computers and televisions that people in the U.S. use every day require metals like copper, cobalt and platinum to build. Demand...
On April 13, 1944, thousands of people clashed with police on the steps of the Art Institute of Chicago. The melee was unrelated to U.S. participation...
After a journey of seven years and nearly 4 billion miles, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft landed gently in the Utah desert on the morning of Sept....
If you live on the East Coast, you may have driven through roundabouts in your neighborhood countless times. Or maybe, if you’re in some parts...
Forty-one states and the District of Columbia filed lawsuits against Meta on Oct. 24, 2023, alleging that the company intentionally designed...
In the 2018 documentary “The Cleaners,” a young man in Manila, Philippines, explains his work as a content moderator: “We see the pictures on...
Think about your favorite devices—your smartphone, laptop, tablet, computer, or console—the things you use to play cool games, watch hilarious...
Have you ever bitten into a nut or a piece of chocolate, expecting a smooth, rich taste, only to encounter an unexpected and unpleasant chalky or sour...
Hundreds of millions of tons of single-use plastic ends up in landfills every year, and even the small percentage of plastic that gets recycled...
Isaac Asimov’s iconic science fiction collection I, Robot, tells the story of androids created at U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men Inc. The androids...
A male colleague could be forgiven for not knowing if using “guys” to refer to female coworkers is acceptable in the modern workplace. But should...
By Elizabeth Ellcessor and Hamilton Bean The Wireless Emergency Alert system is scheduled to have its third nationwide test on Oct. 4, 2023. The...
Twenty years ago, nanotechnology was the artificial intelligence of its time. The specific details of these technologies are, of course, a world...
Elections around the world are facing an evolving threat from foreign actors, one that involves artificial intelligence. Countries trying to influence...
In the Shorts Protest of 1930, over 600 Dartmouth students defied the much-hated dress codes outlawing exercise clothing in campus buildings.
The hollowing out of U.S. cities’ office and commercial cores is a national trend with serious consequences for millions of Americans. As more...
In the U.S., anxiety disorders affect about one-third of the population. So it’s no surprise that a good number of artists and writers also suffer...
Since ChatGPT’s release in late 2022, many news outlets have reported on the ethical threats posed by artificial intelligence. Tech pundits have...
Starfield is one of the most anticipated video games in recent history. The game, which was released on September 6, 2023, allows players to build...
NASA’s independent study team released its highly anticipated report on UFOs on September 14, 2023. In part, to move beyond the stigma often...
There are alien minds among us. Not the little green men of science fiction, but the alien minds that power the facial recognition in your...
Apple announced on Sept. 12, 2023, that it plans to adopt the USB-C connector for all four new iPhone 15 models, helping USB-C become the connector...
Since buying Twitter, rebranded as X, billionaire Elon Musk, who calls himself a “free speech absolutist,” has welcomed hatemongers to the...
More than 2,000 people died when a powerful magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck Morocco on September 8. The epicenter was in the High Atlas Mountains,...
The Conversation asked Suresh V. Kuchipudi, a virologist and infectious disease expert at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, to...
With record-breaking temperatures across the South, smoke from Canadian wildfires across the North, historic flooding in the Northeast, and...
When Apple’s latest software updates drop this month, users will have access to mental health and wellness features unlike anything currently...