Drones could revolutionize the construction industry, supporting a new UK housing boom

Credit: CC0 Public Domain The UK’s new Labor government has pledged to build 1.5 million homes during its first term in office. To achieve this, it promises planning reform and…

Micro-sized optical spectrometer operates across visible spectrum with sub-5-nm resolution

Airlines resume services after global IT crash wreaks havoc

Passengers crowded into airports to wait for news as dozens of flights were cancelled. Airlines were gradually coming back online Saturday after global carriers, banks and financial institutions were thrown…

Childhood Vision Loss Affects Sound Distance Judgement

Summary: New research reveals that individuals who experience vision loss before age 10 struggle more with judging sound distance compared to those who lose sight later in life. This difficulty…

Consciousness in AI: Distinguishing Reality from Simulation

Summary: A new study examines the possibility of consciousness in artificial systems, focusing on ruling out scenarios where AI appears conscious without actually being so. Using the free energy principle,…

Risk-averse organizations chose CrowdStrike for cybersecurity. Now its software is causing chaos

A Crowdstrike office is shown in Sunnyvale, Calif., on Friday, July 19, 2024. An overnight outage was blamed on a software update that cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike sent to Microsoft computers…

Can consciousness exist in a computer simulation?

Study says blockchain could help combat AI misinformation

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Two Master of Accounting students in the UO’s Lundquist College of Business are shaking up the academic publishing world with a new paper on a timely…

New parameter helps clarify how soft materials fail under stress

A new study takes a step forward in clarifying how soft materials, both natural and synthetic, fail under stress. The work by researchers at the University of Illinois Urban-Champaign addresses…

Researchers develop novel electrode for improving flowless zinc-bromine battery

The novel electrodes effectively suppress the crossover of bromine and bromine complexes, thus preventing self-discharge and enhancing the electrochemical performance and cycling stability of flowless zinc-bromine batteries. Credit: Chanho Pak…