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Bioscientists Measure Vegetation in the Field using a Mixed-reality Headset and Custom Software

Bioscientists Measure Vegetation in the Field using a Mixed-reality Headset and Custom Software

An open-source app to harvest field data from Microsoft’s HoloLens mixed-reality headset has been developed by a lab that specializes in applying data science to…
Watch A Houseplant Control A Robotic Arm Carrying A Machete, For Science

Watch A Houseplant Control A Robotic Arm Carrying A Machete, For Science

In case you didn’t know, plants can now command robots. Like anything else with nerves, plants emit minute electrical signals that are easily captured by…
President Zelenskyy uses a break from fighting to criticize Elon Musk on Twitter

President Zelenskyy uses a break from fighting to criticize Elon Musk on Twitter

Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, has briefly paused his battle against the Russian army invasion to positively assess Elon Musk on Twitter. Musk, who…
A New Method for Detecting Explosions may be Developed

A New Method for Detecting Explosions may be Developed

According to a new method developed by a University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist, computers can be trained to detect distant nuclear detonations, chemical blasts, and…
For Alerting Users to Problematic Content, they Trust AI as much as Humans

For Alerting Users to Problematic Content, they Trust AI as much as Humans

According to Penn State researchers, social media users may trust artificial intelligence (AI) as much as human editors to flag hate speech and harmful content.…
How Artificial Intelligence can Justify its Actions

How Artificial Intelligence can Justify its Actions

Artificial intelligence (AI) can be trained to detect whether or not a tissue image contains a tumor. However, until now, it has remained a mystery…
A New Method for Comparing Neural Networks reveals how AI Works

A New Method for Comparing Neural Networks reveals how AI Works

A team at Los Alamos National Laboratory has developed a novel approach for comparing neural networks that looks inside the “black box” of artificial intelligence…
Why Is The CIA Spending Money On Mammoth Resurrection Technology?

Why Is The CIA Spending Money On Mammoth Resurrection Technology?

As long as people continue to destroy habitats, trash the oceans, and release greenhouse gases into the sky, the planet will face catastrophic climatic change.…
Browser Extension Disallows Annoying and Trickery Cookie Popups So You Don’t Have To

Browser Extension Disallows Annoying and Trickery Cookie Popups So You Don’t Have To

Are you tired of navigating confusing cookie consent popups just to browse the web privately? Fortunately, Danish academics from Aarhus University have developed a browser…
Elon Musk Says a Cyber Track Might “Temporarily” Function as a Boat

Elon Musk Says a Cyber Track Might “Temporarily” Function as a Boat

The much-anticipated Cybertruck, according to Elon Musk, will be “waterproof enough to serve momentarily as a boat,” which has caused Twitter to erupt once more.…
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