More than a third of Americans have lost relationships with friends, family members, romantic partners, or others due to political differences, according to a study. Mertcan Güngör and Peter Ditto examined survey data from thousands […]
Materials can store information about their past—like a crease in a piece of paper that has been unfolded is a “memory” of being folded—that can be retrieved or read out and used for various purposes. […]
Heightened immigration enforcement during the second Trump administration has not expanded job opportunities for U.S.-born workers and is associated with a reduction of employment for U.S.-born men with no more than a high school degree, […]
If you’re registered to vote in the United States and you’re not among the richest of the rich, political scientist Peter K. Enns has a message for you: Your voice still matters. So does data […]
In 1985, the Innovative Design Fund placed an ad in Scientific American offering up to $10,000 to support clever prototypes for clothing, home decor, and textiles. William Freeman Ph.D., then an electrical engineer at Polaroid […]
Amazon announced Monday it is opening up its massive shipping and delivery network to any business that wants to use it—not just the merchants who sell on Amazon’s website.This post was originally published on this […]
In our increasingly online lives, convenience has come at a cost. The average person has more than 100 online accounts, and creating a new one often requires handing over personal information like an email address […]
Ultra-personalized artificial intelligence for assisted communication risks muting aspects of the user’s identity and occasionally breaches privacy, according to a new study from a Cornell Tech doctoral student who trained the technology on himself.This post […]
Over the past decades, technological advances have fueled great innovation in a wide range of fields. Emerging and rapidly developing technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI) systems, three-dimensional (3D) and four-dimensional (4D) printing, digital twins […]
Termite mounds are remarkable structures that regulate temperature, balance airflow, and maintain structural stability in some of Earth’s harshest climates. And like other irregular, disordered systems, they can be difficult to replicate with modern engineering […]
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