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Earth Sciences Apr 25, 2025

Fiber-sensing technology can provide early warning for volcanic eruptions

The Reykjanes Peninsula at Iceland's southwestern edge is one of the country's most populated regions, and it is also one of the most volcanically active. In 2024, sensing technology developed at Caltech was deployed in the ...

Education Apr 22, 2025

'Biomedical Lab in a Box' empowers engineers in low- and middle-income countries

Globally, and especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), a significant portion of the population lacks access to essential health care services. Although there are many contributing factors that create barriers ...

Economics & Business Apr 24, 2025

What 2,000 years of Chinese history reveals about today's AI-driven technology panic and future of inequality

In the sweltering summer of AD18, a desperate chant echoed across China's sun-scorched plains: "Heaven has gone blind!" Thousands of starving farmers, their faces smeared with ox blood, marched toward the opulent vaults held ...

Nanophysics Apr 3, 2025

Nitrogen and argon plasma boosts performance of carbon-based supercapacitor electrodes

Scientists from Skoltech, the Institute of Nanotechnology of Microelectronics, RAS, and other research centers have refined the understanding of how plasma treatment of carbon-based electrodes affects the key characteristics ...

Social Sciences Apr 18, 2025

Screen time prevalent under grandparents' care, study finds

When Grandma and Grandpa are in charge, the children are likely staring at a screen—a long-standing parental complaint now supported by University of Arizona research.

Social Sciences Apr 2, 2025

'Adolescence' on Netflix: A painful wake-up call about unregulated internet use for teens

In the Netflix series "Adolescence," we have no idea why Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper) is arrested at the beginning of the first episode. The tension from seeing a helpless 13-year-old boy escorted to a police station and interrogated ...

Social Sciences Apr 14, 2025

Perceived consensus drives moral intolerance in a time of identity-driven politics and online bubbles

To live together in social communities, people create and maintain expectations about what is normal and what is not. Sometimes things can fall outside the range of normal and people are OK with it. You might have a neighbor ...

Social Sciences Apr 18, 2025

Price discrimination is getting smarter—and low-income consumers are paying the price

For customers who don't have the freedom to choose where they shop, technological advancements—particularly artificial intelligence (AI) and intrusive personal data collection—are making price discrimination, inflation ...

Space Exploration Apr 2, 2025

United Launch Alliance and Amazon set first launch for SpaceX Starlink competitor Project Kuiper

A launch date is set for the first batch of what will be thousands of satellites for Amazon's Project Kuiper as the company looks to play catch-up with SpaceX and its Starlink internet constellation.

Space Exploration Mar 10, 2025

Climate change may reduce the number of satellites that can safely orbit in space

MIT aerospace engineers have found that greenhouse gas emissions are changing the environment of near-Earth space in ways that, over time, will reduce the number of satellites that can sustainably operate there.

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