As commercial spaceflight companies lower the cost of reaching space, nations can launch more missions. But while astronauts…
An Estonian cybersecurity leader explains how her country defends itself, its society and its elections from Russian interference.
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After Google suggested PigeonRank was at the root of its search function, a group of researchers put a small flock of the…
Media reports are starting to directly connect climate change to its weather effects in local communities. But how you respond…
As Netflix plans additional choose-your-own-adventure TV movies, a game designer explains how they're made and the long…
Computers were once considered high-end technology, only accessible to scientists and trained professionals. Today, almost…
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Social media companies struggle to identify and remove hate speech when it's posted. What can computer science reveal…
Pilots get lots of assistance from automation as it is. In the future, they'll get even more.
Of course people need ethics. But the current troubles in the technology industry are not evidence of an ethics crisis;…
With Gottlieb's departure from the FDA imminent, what should we expect from the FDA? How is it likely to regulate the…
Children can't handle watching livestreamed massacres – and adults shouldn't have to.
Scientists and ethicists have called for a five-year moratorium on editing human genes that will pass on to future generations.…
The Great Red Spot has remained an essentially constant feature of Jupiter's turbulent atmosphere for at least the past…
The inquiries can take months of painstaking work, but often yield important insights that improve flight safety for everyone…
Your brain's sensory talents go way beyond those traditional five senses. A team of geoscientists and neurobiologists…
An analysis of flight data shows that problems began at a point when the pilot would normally have engaged the autopilot…
Scientists worldwide are calling for a moratorium on gene editing in germline cells. But what is a germline cell? How does…
Considering language from a biological perspective led researchers to the idea that new food processing technologies affected…