As the International Rescue Committee copes with dramatic increases in displaced people in recent years, the refugee aid organization has looked for efficiencies wherever it can — including using artificial intelligence.

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A multi-institutional trio of roboticists has designed and built a robot that mimics the abilities of the dung beetle. In their paper published in the journal Advanced Science, Binggwong Leung, Stanislav ...

"Green flight paths" between key global locations could help to fast-track fully decarbonized aviation, according to research led by an international team based at Heriot-Watt University in the United ...

As the International Rescue Committee copes with dramatic increases in displaced people in recent years, the refugee aid organization has looked for efficiencies wherever it can—including using artificial ...

What happens when the technology meant to protect marginalized voices ends up silencing them? Rebecca Dorn, a research assistant at USC Viterbi's Information Sciences Institute (ISI) has uncovered how ...

A new training program considerably reduces the use of force by police without leading to a rise in harm to officers, a large-scale trial has found.

During the recent United States presidential election campaign, tech billionaire Elon Musk's social media platform X (formerly Twitter) saw record high usage.

A new study from AI experts at the University of Oxford and University of Melbourne reveals that men are much more likely to support the idea of being cared for in their homes by a robot when they are ...

Most people think of coffee cups, bathroom tiles or flower pots when they hear the word "ceramic." Not so Frank Clemens. For the research group leader in Empa's Laboratory for High-Performance Ceramics, ...

In late October 2024, Volkswagen's works council announced that the group's management was considering closing three factories in Germany, which would lead to the loss of tens of thousands of jobs, as ...

Imagine this: You're at an office job, wearing noise-canceling headphones to dampen the ambient chatter. A co-worker arrives at your desk and asks a question, but rather than needing to remove the headphones ...

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 boxes of the last ...

The federal government has quietly shelved plans to introduce local requirements for Australian screen content on streaming platforms like Netflix and Disney+.

Your hot shower or bath uses 15%–30% of your household's total energy, second only to the heating and cooling of air.

In an escalation of its battle with big tech, the federal government has announced it plans to impose a "digital duty of care" on tech companies to reduce online harms.

Industrial plants, such as those that make cement or steel, emit copious amounts of carbon dioxide, a potent greenhouse gas, but the exhaust is too hot for state-of-the-art carbon removal technology. ...

Navigating the harsh terrain of other rocky worlds has consistently been challenging. The Free Spirit campaign unfortunately failed in its goal to will the plucky Martian rover out of the morass it found ...

Vehicles fueled by diesel lead to substantial carbon emissions that are challenging to decarbonize. In 2022, diesel fuel use made up about one-fourth of total U.S. transportation carbon dioxide emissions ...

In response to the urgent need to meet the national greenhouse emission reduction goals set by the "Framework Act on Carbon Neutrality and Green Growth for Coping with Climate Crisis," specifically including ...

Concreting mistakes can be expensive. Concrete poured too quickly often leads to a lack of color uniformity, irregularities in the structure and uneven surfaces. Particularly in the case of exposed concrete, ...

Energy stored in thermochemical materials can effectively heat indoor spaces, particularly in humid regions, according to researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory ...