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Codebreaking has moved on since Turing’s day, with dangerous implications

Staff Writer - November 25, 2014

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How Internet of Things devices affect your privacy – even when they’re not yours

Flooded cars in Clearwater, Fla., after the arrival of Hurricane Milton on Oct. 10, 2024. Spencer Platt/Getty Images

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Saltwater flooding is a serious fire threat for EVs and other devices with lithium-ion batteries

Artificial intelligence is expected to generate a growing share of the world’s creative work. karetoria/Moment via Getty Images

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People say they prefer stories written by humans over AI-generated works, yet new study suggests that’s not quite true

DeepSeek’s language AI rocked the tech industry, but it comes up short on one measure. Lionel Bonaventure/AFP via Getty Images

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Popular AIs head-to-head: OpenAI beats DeepSeek on sentence-level reasoning

WISE, NEOWISE’s predecessor mission, imaged the entire sky in the mid-infrared range. NASA/JPL/Caltech/UCLA

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NEOWISE, the NASA mission that cataloged objects around Earth for over...

Staff Writer - December 3, 2024

Specialized compartments within cells carry out specific functions. Christoph Burgstedt/Science Photo Library via Getty Images

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Cells have more mini ‘organs’ than researchers thought − unbound by...

Staff Writer - November 5, 2024

When engineers design things, they use models to predict how the things will work in the natural world. But all models have limitations. MTStock Studio/E+ via Getty Images

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All models are wrong − a computational modeling expert explains how...

Staff Writer - April 20, 2025

Amazon Web Services, hosted in data centers like this one in Virginia, supports thousands of websites, apps and online services – but not during its recent DNS outage. Nathan Howard/Getty Images

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What is DNS? A computer engineer explains this foundational piece of...

Staff Writer - November 2, 2025

Made you look. Zhen Li via Getty Images

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Color complexity in social media posts leads to more engagement, new...

Staff Writer - October 15, 2024

In ‘Resident Evil,’ the Red Queen is efficient and logical, but also indifferent to human life. Constantin Film

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4 films that show how humans can fortify – or botch...

Staff Writer - September 25, 2025

Only humans can be awarded patents, but AIs can do a lot of the work to earn them. lineartestpilot/iStock via Getty Images

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When humans use AI to earn patents, who is doing the inventing?

Staff Writer - March 16, 2025

Warner Bros. was one of five studios that joined forces with Wall Street investors to gobble up independent theaters and movie producers in the 1920s. Nextrecord Archives/Getty Images

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Whether Netflix or Paramount buys Warner Bros., entertainment oligopolies are back...

Staff Writer - December 13, 2025

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EXPLORING NATURE

The National Center for Atmospheric Research, or NCAR, hosts a supercomputer that scientists rely on for weather and climate research. National Science Foundation

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Making sense of a chaotic planet: How understanding weather and climate...

Staff Writer - February 25, 2026

Antonios Mamalakis, University of Virginia Have you ever stopped to wonder how forecasters can predict the weather days in...

Backcountry skiing can be risky, particularly after heavy, wet snow. AscentXmedia/E+ via Getty Images

Tahoe avalanche: What causes snow slopes to collapse? A physicist and...

February 19, 2026

Warmer winters in normally snowy places can interfere with the important activities of microbes in the soil. Seogi/500px via Getty Images

Warming winters are disrupting the hidden world of fungi – the...

February 17, 2026

Coffee farming is critical to the economies of several African countries. Wang Guansen/Xinhua via Getty Images

Coffee crops are dying from a fungus with species-jumping genes –...

February 17, 2026

Rising global temperatures are increasing the risk of heat stroke on hot days, among many other human harms. Ronda Churchill/AFP via Getty Images

Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...

February 12, 2026