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Communications companies such as Starlink plan to launch tens of thousands of satellites into orbit…
AI can make African elections more efficient – but trust must be built and proper rules put in place
Time magazine has dubbed 2024 a “super election year”. An astonishing 4 billion people are…
Lynn Conway was a trans woman in tech − and underappreciated for decades after she helped launch the computing revolution
Lynn Conway may hold the record for longest delay between being unfairly fired and receiving…
Keeping astronauts healthy in space isn’t easy − new training programs will prepare students to perform medicine while thousands of miles away from Earth
In the coming decade, more people will go to space than ever before as human…
AI is not a magic wand – it has built-in problems that are difficult to fix and can be dangerous
By now, all of us have heard and read a lot about artificial intelligence (AI).…
what happens when a plane collides with a bird?
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A look at East Asia and Vietnam’s religious landscape, change
Typically, East Asia is considered to encompass China, Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, Mongolia, North Korea,…
Excavating data from digs done decades ago and connecting with today’s communities
The ancestors of Alaska Native people began using local copper sources to craft intricate tools…
Deadly border technologies are increasingly employed to violently deter migration
In late May 2024, I travelled to the United States-Mexico border to study the smart-wall…
Some of Earth’s most ancient lifeforms can live on hydrogen – and we can learn from their chemical powers
Three-quarters of all matter in the universe is made up of hydrogen. The young Earth…