Aircraft contrails seem to have a net cooling effect in the daytimeRichard Newstead/Getty Images Taking a day flight could be a swift way to limit the climate impact of a holiday, as new research suggests vapour trails produced by jets...
What does your voice assistant know about you?FG Trade/Getty Images By simulating fake people while interacting with popular smart voice assistants, such as Amazon’s Alexa, Google Assistant and Apple’s Siri, researchers have uncovered the different approaches each system takes to...
Artist’s impression of the seven planets in the TRAPPIST-1 systemNASA A search for aliens communicating between planets in one of the most promising systems to look for life has come up empty. Discovered in 2017, TRAPPIST-1 is a system of...
When it comes to maintaining and restoring various surfaces, laser cleaning has emerged as a leading technology, especially for metal, stone, and wood surfaces. If you’re searching for the best laser cleaning service near you, it’s essential to understand what...
Genetically modified maizeNick Gregory/Alamy I have never been a supporter of Brexit, except for one thing: it has allowed the UK to break free from the damaging straitjacket of European Union agricultural policy, including its prohibition on genetically modified crops....
It has become trivially easy to use artificial intelligence to edit images or generate video to remove unwanted objects or beautify scenes, but doing so leads to people misremembering what they have seen Source link...
Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake has been shortlisted for the Booker prize Creation LakeRachel Kushner (Jonathan Cape (UK, 5 September); Scribner (US, 3 September)) Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner is a thriller, a spy caper, a comedy and also a poetic...
The northern sea robin uses its legs to find food in the seabedAnik Grearson A striking fish that lives at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean has evolved legs – but not just for walking. These appendages are a novel...
Jean: Do you take roughly the same approach you've just described for each novel you’ve adapted for the stage?Caridad: Yes. House of Lagoon by Rosario Ferré was the most recent. I read it. Then, I responded in my own language....
September 26, 20245 min readMilgram’s Infamous Shock Studies Still Hold Lessons for Confronting AuthoritarianismWhy ordinary people will follow orders to the point of hurting others remains a critical question for scientists—though some answers have emergedBy Laura Niemi, Edouard Machery &...
