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Are tomorrow’s engineers ready to face AI’s ethical challenges?
Ice age climate analysis reduces worst-case warming expected from rising CO2
Removing PFAS from public water will cost billions and take time – here are ways to filter out some harmful ‘forever chemicals’ at home
Grizzly bear conservation is as much about human relationships as it is the animals
Course for veterans to expand microchip workforce in New York state
Synthetic Platelets Stanch Bleeding, Promote Healing in Animal Models
Using research to solve societal problems starts with building connections and making space for young people
Tiny crystals capture millions of years of mountain range history – a geologist excavates the Himalayas with a microscope
Brain scans of Philly jazz musicians reveal secrets to reaching creative flow
Scientists Create 3D Map Of Universe
What four decades of canned salmon reveal about marine food webs
During the 2024 eclipse, biologists like us want to find out how birds will respond to darkness in the middle of the day
Growing quickly helped the earliest dinosaurs and other ancient reptiles flourish in the aftermath of mass extinction
Even hands-free, phones and their apps cause dangerously distracted driving
Wristband uses echos, AI to track hand positions for VR and more
Tiny Organisms, Transformative Outcomes
Exploding stars are rare but emit torrents of radiation − if one happened close enough to Earth, it could threaten life on the planet
What is Volt Typhoon? A cybersecurity expert explains the Chinese hackers targeting US critical infrastructure
Bridges can be protected from ship collisions – an expert on structures in disasters explains how
Horses lived in the Americas for millions of years – new research helps paleontologists understand the fossils we’ve found and those that…
Protect Habitat To Prevent Pandemics
How AI and a popular card game can help engineers predict catastrophic failure – by finding the absence of a pattern
Crypto, green hydrogen form ‘dynamic duo’ to thwart climate change
Researchers Discover Evolutionary “Tipping Point” in Fungi
New Software Boosts Accuracy of Tech to Measure Crop Health
Citizen scientist group finds 15 rare ‘active asteroids’
Building fairness into AI is crucial – and hard to get right
Creating Remote Sensor To Detect Health Troubles
Printed Polymer Allows Researchers to Explore Chirality and Spin Interactions at Room Temperature
UW researchers taught kids to code with cultural research and embroidery machines
Simple Trick Could Improve Accuracy of Plant Genetics Research
Congress is failing to deliver on its promise of billions more in research spending, threatening America’s long-term economic competitiveness
Surviving fishing gear entanglement isn’t enough for endangered right whales – females still don’t breed afterward
Cornell to help bring clean drinking water to rural Puerto Rico
Replica Theory Shows Deep Neural Networks Think Alike
April’s eclipse will mean interruptions in solar power generation, which could strain electrical grids
Rare access to hammerhead shark embryos reveals secrets of its unique head development
Immune cells can adapt to invading pathogens, deciding whether to fight now or prepare for the next battle
Titanosaurs were the biggest land animals Earth’s ever seen − these plant-powered dinos combined reptile and mammal traits
Understanding Wind and Water at the Equator Key to More Accurate Future Climate Projections
Emotion-tracking AI on the job: Workers fear being watched – and misunderstood
DNA Aptamer Drug Sensors Can Instantly Detect Cocaine, Heroin and Fentanyl – Even When Combined With Other Drugs
Potato charms: people throughout history have kept and even stolen wrinkly old vegetables for their health
NC State Receives $6.9 Million From NSF, NIEHS to Fund New Oceans and Human Health Center
Citizens often act against self-interest in granting police consent
The ‘average’ revolutionized scientific research, but overreliance on it has led to discrimination and injury
Ice Shell Thickness Reveals Water Temp On Ocean Worlds
80 mph speed record for glacier fracture helps reveal the physics of ice sheet collapse