Category: Technology

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Teens with domineering friends are at heightened risk for mental health problems, according to our new research. Dominant friends often harness decision-making power – for instance, dictating which classmates their friends should follow on Instagram. They can also exert behavioral control, […]

People have used poisons throughout history for a variety of purposes: to hunt animals for food, to treat diseases and to achieve nefarious ends like murder and assassination. But what is a poison? Do all poisons act in the same way? Does the amount of the poison matter in terms of its toxicity? I am […]

By buffering the dangerous aspects of solar module maneuvering and installation, these smart robotic arms are creating processes to move solar equipment faster and build sites with fewer errors. How Robotics Can Help Global Renewable Energy Goals & Create Jobs Erica Brinker | Array Technologies This […]

The social media app TikTok has been a focus for concerns that the Chinese government could access data on individual users. Whether the app poses a security risk remains unclear, but TikTok has now been banned from government devices in several countries. However, reports suggest that computer-based tools designed to collect data from publically available […]

Scientists have found evidence of a physical structure on Venus that is changing shape, expanding, and appearing to be overflowing with molten rock. Venus’s unclear atmosphere hides the surface of the planet from observatories on Earth. Maat Mons, a volcano on Venus that has shown signs of a recent eruption, is in the black square […]

Rolls-Royce UK Space Agency backs Rolls-Royce nuclear power to support a future Moon base for astronauts. Scientists at Rolls-Royce are working on the Micro-Reactor program to develop technology that will provide the power needed for humans to live and work on the Moon. Nuclear power has the potential to dramatically increase the duration of future […]

Nestled in the heart of California’s high-tech Silicon Valley is the Alliance Innovation Lab, where Nissan, Renault, and Mitsubishi work in partnership. The center is a cradle-to-concept lab for projects related to energy, materials, and smart technologies in cities, all with an eye toward automotive autonomy. Maarten Sierhuis, the global director of the laboratory, is […]

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been around for decades, but the release of sophisticated tools like ChatGPT is pushing AI-generated content into the mainstream. Marketers are both curious and nervous — understandably — about what this means for the future of marketing and SEO. With SEO, the biggest question is how AI-generated content will be ranked […]

Ferrari The Ferrari Roma spider is a timelessly elegant, high-performance car, but also a pleasure-seeking Italian lifestyle of the 1950s and 60s. This Ferrari spider carries the specifications of Roma’s hugely successful supercar, but what makes it so striking is the adoption of a soft top, a solution making a welcome return to the Prancing […]

After years of hand-wringing about industrial automation’s potentially devastating consequences for the blue-collar workforce, it has finally dawned on the professional class that the robots are coming for them too. True, this may not happen right away. But it seems clear that many of the tasks and processes currently managed by humans will be automated […]