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June 22, 2026, 12:55 PM - 8 min read
The United States has more than 624,000 highway bridges. About 220,000 need major repair or replacement, and 41,677 are rated poor, also called structurally deficient.
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June 21, 2026, 02:59 PM - 6 min read
The pyramid may not have been intentionally designed for resilience in an earthquake. But its survival is not an accident, either.
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June 18, 2026, 02:58 PM - 8 min read
There is a vast difference between launching satellites and operating an industrial-scale computing infrastructure in orbit. Space is unforgiving. Radiation damages electronics. The electronics generate enormous amounts of heat, and getting rid of that heat is surprisingly difficult in space.
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June 17, 2026, 12:54 PM - 6 min read
Comets, though typically found in the outer solar system, can also cause meteors, and even meteor showers. A few comets take long, elliptical paths through the inner solar system every year.
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June 14, 2026, 01:00 PM - 5 min read
The goal is ambitious: a single vaccine that works not just against all known human coronavirus variants, but against related bat viruses that could jump from animals to humans and cause future pandemics.
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June 12, 2026, 04:18 PM - 6 min read
Sounding human builds an artificial sense of trust and intimacy, which can be especially problematic for children when combined with sycophantic language choices – or excessively agreeable, validating and even flattering language.
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June 11, 2026, 01:11 PM - 6 min read
There is a significant amount of data showing heavy use of chatbots and other systems that produce text, images and video leads to neural patterns and behaviour that are associated with addiction.
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June 10, 2026, 02:58 PM - 6 min read
According to the Finnish Digital Skill Report 2023, only half of 65 to 74-year-olds have basic digital skills. Of 75 to 89-year-olds, as few as 22 per cent have such skills, and one-third do not use internet at all.
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June 7, 2026, 12:57 PM - 6 min read
A star caught cannibalising its companion has finally revealed the origin of one of astronomy’s most puzzling repeating signals.
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June 3, 2026, 12:50 PM - 7 min read
What once felt like science fiction is now embedded in our everyday lives. You can’t always see this technology, and you can’t always opt out. But knowing it exists is the first step to understanding how much of yourself you’re already sharing.
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May 31, 2026, 04:10 PM - 7 min read
Studies on journalistic language and neologisms clearly demonstrate that newspapers are platforms for the creation and dissemination of new vocabulary. However, if a significant amount of journalistic writing is delegated to generative AI, this role will diminish.
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May 29, 2026, 12:34 PM - 6 min read
Traditional verification techniques are falling short as AI becomes increasingly convincing and the line between authentic and synthetic blurs. This is true across all content, from still images to moving ones and audio deepfakes.
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