Science and Technolgy blog
AI-generated summaries of scientific studies are not only simpler and more accessible to general readers but also improve public perceptions of scientists’ trustworthiness and credibility, according to recent research published in PNAS Nexus. By comparing traditional summaries written by researchers…
Charlie Cox’s Matt Murdock returns in Marvel’s new series Daredevil: Born Again. Daredevil is among my favorite stories in the Netflix Defenders universe—along with Jessica Jones—in large part because Wilson Fisk (aka Kingpin, played to perfection by Vincent D’Onofrio), was…
Tires might be one of the more prosaic parts of a car, but they are undoubtedly among the most important. Bench racers might obsess about powertrain specs, and average consumers mostly want to know that there’s wireless charging for their…
Here at Ars, we’re suckers for stories about hackers getting Doom running on everything from CAPTCHA robot checks and Windows’ notepad.exe to AI hallucinations and fluorescing gut bacteria. Despite all that experience, we were still thrown for a loop by…
A Washington-based launch company announced Wednesday that it has raised $260 million in Series C funding, a significant capital raise at a time when it has become more difficult for some space companies to attract funding. “The market is tough,…
The bone fragments were once thought to be some of the oldest human fossils found in Japan.
Antarctica’s Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf may be under threat due to relatively warm water from the deep sea flowing towards the shelf. Is climate change to blame?
Research published in Sex Roles suggests that male victimhood ideology among South Korean men is driven more by perceived socioeconomic status decline rather than objective economic hardship. In recent years, male victimhood ideology—the belief that men are primary targets of…
News stories about the likely existence of extraterrestrial life, and our chances of detecting it, tend to be positive. We are often told that we might discover it any time now. Finding life beyond Earth is “only a matter of…
Back in 2023, AI researchers at Meta interviewed 34 native Spanish and Mandarin speakers who lived in the US but didn’t speak English. The goal was to find out what people who constantly rely on translation in their day-to-day activities…
