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It’s hard to look for something you’ve never seen before – and that might not even exist. But you have to start somewhere.
Researchers can create ‘single-cell radios’ using bacterial proteins to transmit the invisible activities within cells.
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2024 marks 25 years since NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory started detecting X-rays from energetic astronomical events.
To model the inside of a supercapacitor, my team had to rework a common physics law that most high school students learn.
Humans have watched and learned from animals who treat their ills with bioactive plants. This animal wisdom has a scientific…
Police can reconstruct someone’s movements for days or weeks at a time, without any court oversight.
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A data privacy expert explains how machine learning algorithms draw inferences and how that leads to privacy concerns.
You have the US space program to thank for some of the technology in your phone and laptop.
The law forcing TikTok to be sold or banned is meant to protect Americans from Chinese government influence and privacy…
People participate in online communities to share experiences and sympathy. AI chatbots that join the conversation can only…
Hard water might dry out your hair and skin − but having hard water isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
Scientists are discovering viral genetic sequences in the wild faster than they can analyze them. A kind of ChatGPT for…
Studying theoretical, fast-spinning black holes is helping physicists understand more about the elusive black holes out…
Just as human biases show up in machine learning systems, so, too, do people’s vagaries and vicissitudes.
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Want to bring extra life to a glass of champagne or soda water? Physicists will tell you to drop in a small object, such…