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The feathers can emit two frequencies of laser light from multiple regions across their colored eyespots.

How did China get a cut of the global diamond trade?

When Meta embedded AI bots in its apps, even students in the most remote corners of Colombia gained access. But rather than boosting learning, it’s getting in the way.

Overreliance on artificial intelligence may put us in intellectual debt.

Moves by companies to talk less about climate action may stall efforts to cut the cost of emissions reductions, according to the head of carbon exchange Climate Impact X.

A new study, which reviewed dozens of published articles from around the world, found that cumulative heat exposure has negative consequences for students' cognitive outcomes.

Why being popular is not the goal of most small businesses

A 2025 survey across six countries finds that citizens are not in favor of deregulation and allowing AI innovation to progress unchecked.

Viral Instagram accounts making LeBron 'brainrot' videos have also been banned.

A strong 4.8-hr tide is reported for the first time at altitudes between 260 and 500 km The 4.8-hr tide play an important role in driving two consecutive midnight ionospheric collapses The gener...

Who needs Starlink when you've got an actual starling

How AI helped map economic alternatives that put people and planet first—and why this matters more than ever

Heavy industry relies on fossil fuels not just for power, but heat. Thermal batteries could help make electrification a reality for those companies.

The startup has devised a durable way to store solar power as heat that can then be used for household heating or hot water.

Pornainen recently turned on a 100 MWh thermal battery filled with ground up soapstone.

Researchers in the United Kingdom have announced the successful birth of eight babies after a clinical trial of an IVF technique known as mitochondrial donation.

As physical climate risks intensify, businesses are accelerating investments in climate adaption strategies.

Kurt Rathmann told his big-name investors he had developed groundbreaking AI to do the books for small businesses. In reality, humans did most of the work.

Records obtained by Motherboard show the police department used sub-par images in almost half of its facial recognition searches, increasing the chance of misidentifying suspects.

This investigation examines the Home Office’s response to suspected cheating in the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC).

Algorithmic auditing, a burgeoning industry, lacks the necessary incentives to function as a check on AI applications.

A Google search summary of measures to be carried out after a seizure left out the words "do not", resulting in instructions that could well kill a person. Soft Linden, the director of informa...

After its triumph on Jeopardy!, IBM’s AI seemed poised to revolutionize medicine. Doctors are still waiting

A sweeping drug addiction risk algorithm has become central to how the US handles the opioid crisis. It may only be making the crisis worse.

First attempts last year to record and identify faces of drivers as they zip along the highway at the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge have failed, according to an internal Metropolitan Transportation Auth…

Facebook said the onion-seed ad had been removed for breaking its rules on "products with overtly sexual positioning."

Facebook's censors are digging deep -- flagging the word "hoe" in a western New York gardening group because they apparently confused the tool for a disparaging term for women.

Experts say the MIDAS false fraud fiasco is only one of the most glaring examples of government \

The long read: Josiah Elleston-Burrell had done everything to make his dream of studying architecture a reality. But, suddenly, in the summer of 2020, he found his fate was no longer in his hands

Computer algorithms that scan everything from terror watch lists to eviction records spit out flawed tenant screening reports. And almost nobody is watching