Even on Instagram, teens mostly feel bored: Researchers offer design recommendations

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Concern that social media is driving the teen mental health crisis has risen to such a pitch that the majority of states in the country have…

Lost crusader altar discovered in holiest site of Christendom

Archaeologists from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), working in collaboration with the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), have discovered a lost crusader altar in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.…

Here’s how AI Is changing NASA’s Mars rover science

PIXL, the white instrument at top left, is one of several science tools located on the end of the robotic arm aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover. The Mars rover’s left navcam…

Engineers evaluate cybersecurity risks associated with EV fast-charging equipment

SwRI research engineers, from left, FJ Olugbodi, Mark Johnson and Katherine Kozan demonstrate an adversary-in-the-middle device they developed to test the cyber resiliency of ISO 15118-compliant vehicle-to-grid charging systems. With…

Physicists pool skills to better describe the unstable sigma meson particle

Study shows AI tool successfully responds to patient questions in electronic health record

Credit: CC0 Public Domain As part of a nationwide trend, many more of NYU Langone Health’s patients during the pandemic started using electronic health record tools to ask their doctors…

Flying in helicopters is safe—an aerospace engineer explains the technology, training that make it so

Helicopters draw a lot of attention with their almost magical ability to hover, fly in any direction and operate without runways. They also help save many lives, often dramatically, with…

UK court ruling provides ammo for anti-fossil fuel lawyers worldwide

Britain’s top court ruled that emissions from burning a fossil fuel – not just producing it – should be considered in decisions on new extraction projects A recent ruling by…

Understanding how biodiversity in ecosystems changes over time by considering the arrival and departure of species – Functional Ecologists

In this blog post, Lucie Kuczynski – a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oldenburg, Germany – presents her research “Functional diversity loss and taxonomic delays of European freshwater fish…

Quantum microscopy study makes electrons visible in slow motion

The imaging tip of the time-resolving scanning tunneling microscope captures the collective electron motion in materials through ultrafast terahertz pulses. Credit: Shaoxiang Sheng, University of Stuttgart (FMQ) Physicists at the…