Flash droughts develop fast, and when they hit at the wrong time, they can devastate a region’s agriculture. They’re also...
Researchers at Oregon State University and Baylor University have made a breakthrough toward reducing the energy consumption of the photonic...
As new technologies take on increasingly humanlike qualities, there’s been a push to make them genderless. Apple’s Siri digital assistant...
The European Union slapped Meta with a record $1.3 billion privacy fine Monday and ordered it to stop transferring user...
The explosion of generative AI has taken the world by storm, but one question all too rarely comes up: Who...
The Brazilian rainforest is one of the world’s few continental regions with clean air. However, this is only true during...
Studying people in human-computer interaction (HCI) research can be slow. That’s why researchers at the Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence...
Birds across the Americas are getting smaller and longer-winged as the world warms, and the smallest-bodied species are changing the...
Between approximately 450 BCE and 950 CE, millions of Amerindian people living in today’s Amazonia transformed the originally poor soil...
Cold spells often bring climate change deniers out in force on social media, with hashtags like #ClimateHoax and #ClimateScam. Former...
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of closely monitoring viruses that could infect humans. In the early stages of the...
A new way to optimize the training of deep learning models, a rapidly evolving tool for powering artificial intelligence, could...
