Naoko Wake, Professor of History, Michigan State University With 13 Oscar nominations, all signs point to “Oppenheimer” as the star of the 96th Academy Awards. Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster about the making of the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki…
Naoko Wake, Professor of History, Michigan State University With 13 Oscar nominations, all signs point to “Oppenheimer” as the star of the 96th Academy Awards. Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster about the making of…
Yu Gu, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, West Virginia University; Trevor Smith, PhD Candidate in Mechanical Engineering, West Virginia University My colleagues and I have built a robot composed of many…
Paul Lushenko, Assistant Professor and Director of Special Operations, US Army War College Unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, have been central to the war in Ukraine. Some analysts claim that drones have reshaped war,…
Nathan Schneider, Assistant Professor of Media Studies, University of Colorado Boulder Perfect safety is no more possible online than it is when driving on a crowded road with strangers or walking alone…
The original Macintosh computer may seem quaint today, but the way users interacted with it triggered a revolution 40 years ago. Mark Mathosian/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA Jacob O. Wobbrock, Professor of Information, University of Washington…
Li Li, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences, UMass Chan Medical School Vaccines have been reliably and affordably protecting people from diseases worldwide for centuries. Until the COVID-19 pandemic, however, vaccine development was still…
H. Colleen Sinclair, Louisiana State University Information warfare abounds, and everyone online has been drafted whether they know it or not. Disinformation is deliberately generated misleading content disseminated for selfish or malicious…
Matthew Olczak, Aston University; Jon Guest, Aston University, and Karishma Patel, Aston University The boardroom of OpenAI, the business that developed ChatGPT, has seen some turbulent times recently. But while the drama…
M. Hadi Amini, Florida International University Depending on which late-model vehicle you own, your car might be watching you – literally and figuratively – as you drive down the road. It’s watching…
Mary Magnuson, The Conversation If you hadn’t heard about superconductors before 2023, odds are you know what they are now. Researchers raised eyebrows early in the year with claims of operational room-temperature…