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Professors Christian Jakob and Michael Reeder explain how heatwaves form ... and why they weather...
As the world gets more homogenized and closely connected, geographic-specific languages risk vani...
Every time there is a major disease outbreak, one of the first questions scientists and the public ask is: "Where did this come from?" In order to predict and prevent future pandemics like ...
Phony press releases are a big thorn in the sides of many multinational companies. These big shot...
Much has been said about China's use of biometric technology for mass civilian surveillance. But ...
For more than a year now, humans around the world have been masking up to limit the spread of COVID. Now, masks may be deployed among another species to combat a very different global ill: cow ...
In remote — sometimes unmapped — regions of China, thousands of computers are "mining" bi...
Latin American firms are joining others around the world testing Virtual and Augmented Reality so...
Now that central banks are opening to the idea of digital currencies, there may no turning back. ...
Announced several years ago, 3D-printing in the building industry is becoming a reality with the ...
Volkswagen and other German car companies want to develop their own software systems and thus clo...
Underpaid and overexposed to what in some cases can be truly disturbing content, moderators are t...
Glittering virtual lounges are popping up, inviting people to participate, solely by audio, in de...
Can nature save capitalism? Biomimicry is thought-provoking because it provides many sources of i...
Three survivors of terrorism in France are now being targeted online for the compassion they have...
Imagine yourself as the first naturalist to stand in a place where little recorded scientific knowledge exists, like Alfred Russel Wallace in the Malay Archipelago or Alexander von Humboldt in ...
Technological progressions have always changed how we behave. But AI has much more far-reaching p...
Whether governments exercising control or protest movements needing a boost, upstart social media...
Facial recognition cameras have imposed themselves in every nook and cranny of Chinese life — ...
Before it even began, the pandemic was already on the radar of big risks — and yet we were un...
