(via Big Think) Our culture has atomized: We’re all on our own with our phones, laptops, and digital media experiences. No one knows what everyone else is seeing. In some ways, these technologies have ...
(via Sabine Hossenfelder) In the past few days we have seen a lot of rumours about troubles with AI scaling. In this video, I have a brief summary of recent events, who said what, and why I don't ...
Jade from Up and Atom explains the Curie temperature.
Most people don’t enjoy getting shots for treatments or vaccines. So, researchers are working to create more medicines, such as those made from messenger RNA (mRNA), that can be sprayed and inha ...
The world appears to be plagued by crises – at least according to the media. “The financial crisis, the European debt crisis, ...
The Australian government is developing legislation that will ban children under 16 from social media. There has been a huge ...
We know that the Urban Heat Island Effect can make cities particularly vulnerable to extreme heat, but a new study uncovered something even more surprising: cities might actually be ab ...
The rigid structures of language we once clung to with certainty are cracking. Take gender, nationality or religion: these ...
The rigid structures of language we once clung to with certainty are cracking. Take gender, nationality or religion: these concepts no longer sit comfortably in the stiff linguistic ...
The Australian government is developing legislation that will ban children under 16 from social media. There has been a huge public debate about whether there is sufficient direct ...
As we look to transition to our electric future, researchers are still stumped about how to store the electricity generated by inconsistent renewable power sources like solar ...
There are cosmic events so powerful that they leave permanent marks on the fabric of the universe itself. Imagine two ...