Coastal urban centers around the world are urgently looking for new, sustainable water sources as their local supplies become less reliable. In the US,...
Restaurants have been struggling with labor shortages since the worst days of the pandemic, and the situation doesn’t seem to be getting any better....
Today, September 26, a spacecraft moving eight times faster than a speeding bullet will impact an asteroid almost 7 million miles (11 million kilometers)...
ROBOTICS
These Autonomous, Wireless Robots Could Dance on a Human Hair
Devin Coldewey | TechCrunch
"The competition to create ever smaller, ever better robots is a fierce...
Vertical farms are popping up everywhere from Pennsylvania to Dubai, most of them growing some sort of leafy green (and one growing mushroom fungus!)....
Astronomers now routinely discover planets orbiting stars outside of the solar system— they’re called exoplanets. But in summer 2022, teams working on NASA’s Transiting...
Though it’s still a controversial technology, direct air capture—also called carbon capture—is gaining traction. In the last few years, carbon capture plants have sprung...
Memories are finicky. I’ve been touring Atlantic Canada for the past three weeks, and already my recollection of the trip—dates, places, foods, adventures—doesn’t match...
With recent advances in artificial intelligence and robotics technology, there is growing interest in developing and marketing household robots capable of handling a variety...
BLOCKCHAIN
The Merge Is Here: Ethereum Has Switched to Proof of Stake
Rebecca Ackermann | MIT Technology Review
"Regardless of what happens next, Ethereum’s much-anticipated shift to...
