Analog problems cannot be solved with a digital ban, and age verification does not work like at a checkout counter.

The search for materials that can conduct electricity at room temperature without losing energy is one of the greatest and most consequential challenges of modern physics: loss-free power transmission ...

Researchers have devised a new tool for discerning between naturally occurring viral outbreaks and those resulting from lab ...

More than two centuries later, with the subsequent threats of printed books, television, calculators, and computers behind us, generative AI is the intellectual catastrophe of the moment, poised to ...

The former APS president asked ChatGPT to describe its implicit biases. Its answer steered her research in a whole new direction.

Abstract: The apparel industry is grappling with sustainability challenges. Research in this domain has seen significant growth over the past five years. However, a clear division of topics within ...

In “AI for Good: Applications in Sustainability, Humanitarian Action, and Health,” a team of veteran Microsoft AI researchers deliver an insightful and fascinating discussion of how one of the world’s ...

This week’s note is not about economics nor geopolitics but rather the inspiring Jane Goodall, who very sadly passed away in California this week. I’ve come to know her in the last five years as a ...

Lately, I’ve been avoiding phone calls and texting people more than I used to. I might prefer to pick up a phone, but then I think calling someone will interrupt their day and be an unwelcome ...