There are about 15,000 satellites orbiting the Earth. Most of them, like the International Space Station and the Hubble Telescope, reside in low Earth…
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For us linguists, the flurry of “word of the year” announcements from dictionaries and publishers is a holiday tradition as…
The vision of mining space for resources is no longer science fiction. The Moon’s proximity to Earth and the presence…
Imagine this: a band removes its entire music catalogue from Spotify in protest, only to discover an AI-generated impersonator has…
When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found something…
After a yearslong series of setbacks, NASA’s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, mission has finally begun…
In the past decade, AI’s success has led to uncurbed enthusiasm and bold claims – even though users frequently experience errors that AI makes.…
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has become widely accepted as a tool that increases productivity. Yet the technology is far from mature. Large…
From automatically generated overviews to chatbots in spreadsheets, so-called artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being integrated into our watches, phones,…
The digital revolution has become a vast, unplanned experiment – and children are its most exposed participants. As ADHD diagnoses…