In a visual sense, cyber resilient organizations are those that know how to shrink the circle of impact. Credit: World Economic Forum and the University of Oxford from Linkov, I.,&…
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Google is rolling out its Gemini AI chatbot to kids under 13. It’s a risky move
Credit: Markus Winkler from Pexels Google has announced it will roll out its Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to children under the age of 13. While the launch starts within…
Verbal Abuse in Childhood Rewires the Developing Brain
Summary: New neuroscience research highlights how verbal abuse in childhood can alter brain development and increase the risk of mental health issues later in life. Children who are routinely shamed,…
How water vapor is powering the next generation of soft robots
An untethered soft robot crawls along a tree trunk in an unstructured environment. It is powered by four liquid-gas phase transition electric soft actuators that use water as the working…
Improving the performance of Cu₂SrSnS₄ solar cells with inorganic hole transport layers
Schematic representation of Cu₂SrSnS₄ solar cell with diverse inorganic HTLs Credit: Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids (2025); DOI: 10.1016/j.jpcs.2025.112732 Thin film solar cells such as CdTe and CIGSe…
AI-powered headphones offer group translation with voice cloning and 3D spatial audio
Credit: University of Washington Tuochao Chen, a University of Washington doctoral student, recently toured a museum in Mexico. Chen doesn’t speak Spanish, so he ran a translation app on his…
Google will pay Texas $1.4B to settle claims the company collected users’ data without permission
A sign is displayed on a Google building at their campus in Mountain View, Calif., on Sept. 24, 2019. Credit: AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File Google will pay $1.4 billion to…
Warm metalworking turns brittle semiconductors into flexible, high-performance electronic films
Left: Illustration and photos of warm metalworking techniques; Right-top: Experimental vs. predicted brittle-to-ductile transition temperatures; Right-bottom: Normalized power density of thermoelectric devices based on warm-metalworked films. Credit: Shi Xun Inorganic…