Portable air cleaners aimed at curbing indoor spread of infections are rarely tested for how well they protect people – and very few studies evaluate their potentially harmful effects....
U.S. state legislatures are where the action is for placing guardrails around artificial intelligence technologies, given the lack of meaningful federal regulation. The resounding defeat in Congress[1] of a...
Today, approximately 1,800,000 acres[1] of land in the United States is used for landfill waste disposal. In terms of volume, the U.S alone generated over 290 million tons of...
The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority piloted a new enforcement tool[1] in Philadelphia[2] in 2023: AI-powered cameras mounted on seven of its buses. The results were immediate and dramatic: In...
During a solar eclipse, astronomers who study heliophysics are able to study the Sun’s corona – its outer atmosphere – in ways they are unable to do at any...
Black holes are massive, strange and incredibly powerful astronomical objects. Scientists know that supermassive black holes[1] reside in the centers of most galaxies. And they understand how certain stars...
We have developed a new way to secure video transmissions so even quantum computers in the future won’t be able to break into private video livestreams or recordings. We...