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Massive planet too big for its own sun pushes astronomers to rethink exoplanet formation

Suvrath Mahadevan, Penn State; Guðmundur Kári Stefánsson, Princeton University, and Megan Delamer, Penn State Imagine you’re a farmer searching for eggs in the chicken coop – but instead of a chicken egg, you find an ostrich egg, much larger than anything a…

December 3, 2023
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November 30, 2023

ChatGPT turns 1: AI chatbot’s success says as much about humans as technology

Tim Gorichanaz, Drexel University ChatGPT was launched on Nov. 30, 2022, ushering in what many have called artificial intelligence’s breakout year. Within days of its release, ChatGPT went viral. Screenshots of conversations snowballed across social media, and the use of…

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Forensic anthropologists work to identify human skeletal remains and uncover the stories of the unknown dead

Madeline Atwell, Clemson University and Katherine Weisensee, Clemson University A seasoned deer…

Forget dystopian scenarios – AI is pervasive today, and the risks are often hidden

Anjana Susarla, Michigan State University The turmoil at ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, bookended by…

Spyware can infect your phone or computer via the ads you see online – report

Claire Seungeun Lee, UMass Lowell Each day, you leave digital traces of what you did, where you went, who you communicated with, what you bought, what you’re thinking of buying, and much…

September 24, 2023

NASA’s Mars rovers could inspire a more ethical future for AI

Janet Vertesi, Princeton University Since ChatGPT’s release in late 2022, many news outlets have reported on the ethical threats posed by artificial intelligence. Tech pundits have issued warnings of killer robots bent…

September 21, 2023

Heating and cooling space habitats isn’t easy – one engineering team is developing a lighter, more efficient solution

Issam Mudawar, Purdue University China, India and the U.S. have all achieved landing on the Moon in the 2020s. Once there, their eventual goal is to set up a base. But a…

September 14, 2023

What is geospatial intelligence? A geographer explains the powerful melding of maps and data

Darren Ruddell, University of Southern California With record-breaking temperatures across the South, smoke from Canadian wildfires across the North, historic flooding in the Northeast and a powerful hurricane in the Southeast, the…

September 5, 2023

Space junk in Earth orbit and on the Moon will increase with future missions − but nobody’s in charge of cleaning it up

Chris Impey, University of Arizona There’s a lot of trash on the Moon right now – including nearly 100 bags of human waste – and with countries around the globe traveling to…

August 31, 2023

Machines can’t always take the heat − two engineers explain the physics behind how heat waves threaten everything from cars to computers

Srinivas Garimella, Georgia Institute of Technology and Matthew T. Hughes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Not only people need to stay cool, especially in a summer of record-breaking heat waves. Many machines,…

August 29, 2023

The US and China may be ending an agreement on science and technology cooperation − a policy expert explains what this means for research

Caroline Wagner, The Ohio State University A decades-old science and technology cooperative agreement between the United States and China expires on Aug. 27, 2023. On the surface, an expiring diplomatic agreement may…

August 28, 2023

India’s Chandrayaan-3 landed on the south pole of the Moon − a space policy expert explains what this means for India and the global race to the Moon

Mariel Borowitz, Georgia Institute of Technology India made history as the first country to land near the south pole of the Moon with its Chandrayaan-3 lander on Aug. 23, 2023. This also…

August 24, 2023

Online gaming communities could provide a lifeline for isolated young men − new research

Tyler Prochnow, Texas A&M University Online gaming communities could be a vital lifeline for young men struggling silently with mental health issues, according to new research. My colleagues and I analyzed an…

August 22, 2023

Why Dunkin’ and Lego rebrands succeeded – but X missed the mark

Matthew Pittman, University of Tennessee Twitter has swapped the fluffy bird that used to symbolize the social media platform for a spindly black X. Ditching the company’s well-known logo and changing its…

July 30, 2023
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