We need to better understand public resistance toward wind turbines and solar cells

Julia Kirch Kirkegaard is Associate Professor at DTU Wind and has helped to establish a multidisciplinary section to better equip engineers to understand the complex reality that meets the technologies…

Post-Pandemic America: Unmasking the Silent Stress Surge of Collective Trauma

Summary: The aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic has instigated a silent surge in stress and mental health issues among Americans. Alarmingly, adults aged 35-44 exhibited the most significant hike in…

Disney to complete takeover of Hulu with $8.6 bn deal

Disney has completed its takeover of the Hulu streaming service. The Walt Disney Company on Wednesday announced it will buy Comcast’s $8.6 billion stake in Hulu, completing its takeover of…

DoorDash orders surge 24% in the third quarter, helping the company narrow its losses

The DoorDash app is shown on a smartphone on Feb. 27, 2020, in New York. DoorDash reports earnings on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. Credit: AP Photo, File DoorDash on Wednesday…

Machine Learning Deciphers News Language to Predict Country’s Peace Level

Summary: Researchers devised a machine learning model that gauges a country’s peace level by analyzing word frequency in its news media. By studying over 723,000 articles from 18 countries, the…

UK, US, China sign AI safety pledge at UK summit

Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak convened the first ever global summit on AI safety. Countries including the UK, United States and China on Wednesday agreed the “need for international action”…

Nokia sues Amazon in US, India over video patents

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Finnish telecom giant Nokia said Tuesday it is suing Amazon in five global jurisdictions, including the United States and India, over patent infringements on video-related technologies.…

Mapping Time and Space: Neurons Decode Human Existence Dimensions

Summary: Researchers unveil how neurons in the brain depict time and space, fundamental to human consciousness. Utilizing special depth electrodes, they studied patients undergoing treatment for epilepsy, revealing “place cells”…

A surprising finding shows that light can make water evaporate without heat could enable new approaches to desalination

A new study says that Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria thrive in dew drops. Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Evaporation is happening all around us all the time, from the sweat cooling our…

Cognitive Maturity: 18 is the Threshold of Cognitive Adulthood

Summary: A new study sheds light on when adolescents start thinking like adults. Researchers found that executive function, critical for task-switching and focus, typically matures around 18 years old. Drawing…