Looking to prevent coronavirus? Stop touching your face.
Full disclosure: In the process of writing this, I've touched my face not one, not two, but 37 times. I started counting after Face Touch #3, when I realized I...
New Heathrow runway nixed because of climate change
Some 80 million passengers fly through London's Heathrow Airport each year, but to boost its capacity by another 50 million, the airport seeks to add a third runway. This could...
Robot uses AI to personalize teaching of autistic children
Researchers have developed a new personalized learning robot for autistic children that uses machine learning to adapt its lessons to each kid’s changing needs. The University of Southern California team put a “socially assistive robot”...
NASA’s InSight lander discovers active faults in Mars’ crust
Credit: Artist’s impression of Mars InSight. NASA/JPL-Caltech Most space missions investigate the surface or atmosphere of a body. But NASA’s InSight probe, which landed on Mars in November 2018, is...
What fictional alien encounters can teach us about our own reality
The prospect of contacting sentient aliens is a staple of science fiction. Of course, we have yet to (knowingly) find any; and it’s not impossible (albeit unlikely) that we are...
What Congress grasps about the most threatening glacier on Earth
Some 8,000 miles from the elegantly carpeted U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., lies an eerie, dark, underwater place — a place that threatens to redraw maps all over the globe....
Scientists say Earth has two moons now
Astronomers from the Catalina Sky Survey yesterday announced they’d found a second natural satellite orbiting the Earth. It looks like our planet and its long-standing partner Luna have decided to...
New AI-powered sensor can predict heart failure days before it happens
Scientists have created a prototype of a new AI-powered wearable that could save lives and dramatically reduce hospitalization rates by predicting heart failure days before it happens. The adhesive patch —...
IBM and David Clark Cause announce 2020 Call For Code Challenge
IBM and its partner David Clark Cause today announced the official commencement of the 2020 Call For Code Challenge. The annual contest will focus on climate change this year and...
Researchers found a cure for diabetes (in lab mice)
More than 34 million Americans have diabetes, approximately 10% of the population according to the American Diabetes Association. To date, the most common treatment has been to manage the disease...