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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…