People reflected in a window of a hotel at the Davos Promenade with a slogan about AI alongside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Monday, Jan. 15, 2024. The…
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‘Killer robots’ are coming, and UN is worried
Harvard Law School’s Bonnie Docherty attended the U.N General Assembly where the first-ever resolution on “killer robots” was adopted. Credit: Bonnie Docherty Long the stuff of science fiction, autonomous weapons…
Big planets don’t necessarily mean big moons
Artist’s illustration of a large exomoon orbiting a large exoplanet. Credit: NASA/ESA/L. Hustak Does the size of an exomoon help determine if life could form on an exoplanet it’s orbiting?…
Veteran US and Chinese climate envoys step down
Xie Zhenhua has stepped down and John Kerry has announced he will do the same in a few months time The veteran climate envoys from the world’s two biggest polluters…
Malnutrition often seen in patients treated for inflammatory bowel disease
Some patients seen in an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) clinic screen positive for malnutrition, according to a research letter published online Nov. 20 in Gastro Hep Advances. Aaron C. Viser,…
What if every germ hit you at the exact same time? An immunologist explains
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. What would happen if all…
Microsoft overtakes Apple as most valuable stock in the world
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Microsoft Corp. overtook Apple Inc. to become the world’s most valuable publicly traded company for the first time in more than two years, as worries over…
The Robotic Wave at CES 2024
The first presentation I attended at CES this year was from Nvidia. It set the tone with Nvidia ACE and a host of technologies that are creating a robotic future…
Research sheds new light on moon rock formation solving major puzzle in lunar geology
Image shows astronaut-geologist standing next to a huge lunar boulder during NASA’s Apollo 17 mission in 1972. The scientists in this research used rock samples from this Apollo mission. Credit:…
