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Extreme event attribution is helping researchers answer questions about wildfires, heat waves, and hurricanes.
A psychologist says scientific research have cited consistent evidence to show spending time in nature leads to health improvements.
Extreme heat has increased in frequency, intensity and duration, according to University researchers.
What entrepreneurs should understand is that sustainability applied early can give a company a big competitive advantage.
The disabling of Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 marked the first time the government used export controls to prevent foreign access to an AI service.
The problem with social impacts is they can be transitory and soon disappear without deliberate efforts and strategies to sustain them.
Tomato prices have been in the headlines lately, but costs are soaring for fruits and vegetables across the board.
There is a real risk of cultural bias if AI assumes the whole world ought to pursue the same values as the West.
There is no clear evidence that AI or other kinds of computer-based tutors are superior to human tutors.
Three things make financial advice especially treacherous for AI.
Our research shows that gig workers and consumers alike can create a win-win outcome by shifting their approaches.
Setting a price for electricity is straightforward in principle but complicated in execution.
The real test is what happens after the World Cup ends and visitors go home.
From the very beginning, the capital city was built to be seen.
What happens when scrolling is your job description?
The data shows that democracies are overrepresented at the World Cup and also tend to do better than authoritarian nations—but does that matter?
A $3.1 billion bequest from the Microsoft co-founder's estate — paid out seven years after his death — helped push charitable bequests to $62 billion.
Unlike outdoor air, which cools after sunset, an uninsulated home absorbs heat all day and releases it slowly at night.
Without guidelines and standards, science risks entering a world where every image can be questioned and no image carries inherent credibility.
The growing turmoil in the North American beef market risks further tightening supplies and raising prices.
Strikers such as England’s Harry Kane, France’s Kylian Mbappé and Norway’s Erling Haaland maintain attentional control under pressure.
The gap between how bosses see themselves and how workers actually experience them is no longer just a sitcom premise.
People could be allowed to fly drones beyond visual line of sight within a year or so.
The context involves at least three elements that critics have found particularly offensive.
Can't get home insurance in Florida? Your neighbor's property value just became your problem too.
The results show that Spain is favored to win with a probability of 14.5%.
The trap of having to strip away guardrails isn’t an accident of competition; it’s being maintained by the government through incentives.
Advanced deep learning models have made facial recognition systems more accurate and reliable.
AI does not know what you have been through or what risk trade-offs you are willing to accept.
Fresh inflation data now suggests the challenge may be deeper and longer-lasting than many expected.
Society sends increasingly contradictory messages about what aging is supposed to look like.
Recent tragedies show AI’s potential role in violent events.
Buttons and zippers aren’t just practical. They also follow design traditions that became connected to gender over hundreds of years.
Trump is moving from his Liberation Day tariffs to what I call ‘revenge tariffs’ in an attempt to show the high court that it cannot stop him.
Counterintuitively, Warsh’s background in finance could help keep the Central Bank free from Trump’s influence.
Adidas is supplying a new ball for the matches, which it has done for every tournament since 1970.
A fungal disease decimating bat colonies is driving up crop losses, shrinking rural tax bases, and raising borrowing costs for county governments.
AI policing tools are used in dozens of U.S. cities, and several injustices have already occurred.
Whenever Americans are hungry for answers, platforms such as these can more easily masquerade as objective data analysis tools.
Fight the FOBO (fear of becoming obsolete). Automated work still requires human judgement.
There are simple steps you can take to reduce the impact of stress on your nervous system.
When it comes to Mythos, don’t hate the player. Hate the game.
Chip manufacturing behaves less like a competitive commodity market and more like a layered oligopoly.
Without binding regulations, mining for critical minerals will worsen the lives of some of the world’s poorest people.
As U.S. power in the world has slowly declined amid the rise of China and an increasingly multipolar world, the country has lost some of its ability...
Tech companies have made ads part of nearly every large free web service, video channel, and social media platform. But the latest AI models could...
People usually don’t suspect AI use unless it’s obvious.
As the federal government accelerates the use of and investment in AI-driven spy tech, it’s mandating less oversight around AI technology.
Resilience is not forged in the denial of vulnerability, but in its acceptance.
What to do—and what not to do.