Building features can be analyzed in the same way that facial recognition software works, revealing previously hidden elements…
Airplanes could be safer with technology at the helm. A key sticking point is human opinion.
Human beings seem to be born wearing rose-colored glasses. Psychologists are interested in how this bias toward the positive…
Facebook is realizing it has broad obligations to society. Here's how it could start meeting them.
For years, watchdogs have warned of the potential problems of sharing data with online companies. The Facebook data crisis…
Four scientists talk through the ways they now build outreach into their work as a way to spread their research's impact…
The current reckoning with data has been a long time coming, a historian of privacy in the US writes.
US privacy laws focus on informing consumers what's happening with their data; other countries specifically restrict…
As millions in federal dollars flow to states to protect elections, what should the money help pay for?
When NASA first started planning the Kepler mission, no one knew if the universe held any planets outside our solar system.…
The best way to protect elections is to plan and prepare for an audit of the results after the votes are cast.
Are DNA samples today's version of the human skeletons that hung in 20th-century natural history museums? They can provide…
A couple thousand satellites are orbiting Earth right now. Under the right conditions, your naked eye can spot these human-made…
It will be hard to adjust. Considering what happened with the onset of car travel and web surfing, society can't just…
People in Appalachia are skeptical and cautious around technology – and how they think can be useful and instructive for…
Where does responsibility lie if a person acts under the influence of their brain implant? As neurotechnologies advance,…
Prime numbers are the biggest and oldest data set in mathematics. Why have they captivated mathematicians for millennia?
An email from Aleksandr Kogan sheds light on exactly how much your Facebook data reveals about you, and what data scientists…
Whether or not you’ve ever used the word flutter, you’ve encountered the phenomenon – in flags, airplanes, bridges…
Cognitive psychologists know the way our minds work means we not only don't notice errors and misinformation we know…