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When people spread lies online, they may know they’re sharing falsehoods. Timucin Taka/500 px via Getty Images

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Some online conspiracy-spreaders don’t even believe the lies they’re spewing

Staff Writer - October 4, 2024

Saving time is not a given for teachers who rely on artificial intelligence. skynesher/E+ via Getty Images

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Teachers feel most productive when they use AI for teaching strategies

A police officer examines a damaged car after thousands of pagers exploded simultaneously across Lebanon on Sept. 17, 2024. AP Photo/Hussein Malla

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Pagers and walkie-talkies over cellphones – a security expert explains why Hezbollah went low-tech for communications

TikTok takes on the U.S. government. Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images

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TikTok ban goes to the court: 5 essential reads on the case and its consequences

Ethicists wrestling with AI’s responsibility for its actions, vis-a-vis its creators’ responsibility, could learn a few things from theology. 'The Creation of Adam' from the Sistine Chapel, by Michelangelo/Wikimedia Commons

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Medieval theology has an old take on a new problem − AI responsibility

Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes faces off against X’s Elon Musk. Ton Molina/NurPhoto via Getty Images / AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth

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Elon Musk’s feud with Brazilian judge is much more than a...

Staff Writer - September 9, 2024

The angles and branches in this illustration of a chip are key to using terahertz waves for the next generation of high-speed wireless communications. Wenhao Wang, Guillaume Ducournau, and Ranjan Singh

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Chip that steers terahertz beams sets stage for ultrafast internet of...

Staff Writer - September 3, 2024

An experimental aircraft like this solar-powered airship could someday play a role in providing internet access to rural areas or disaster zones. Thales Alenia Space via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

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A third of the world’s population lacks internet connectivity − airborne...

Staff Writer - August 26, 2024

It’s not you: App privacy settings really can be complicated. Drazen Zigic/iStock via Getty Images

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Complicated app settings are a threat to user privacy

Staff Writer - August 16, 2024

Keith Krach with his hands up at the Perdue Commencement

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Krach Delivers Powerful Purdue Commencement Address with Proof of Equation: Transformation...

Staff Writer - January 14, 2022

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Purdue Forms World’s First Institute for Tech Diplomacy Through Transformation and...

Staff Writer - January 14, 2022

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Are We Exploiting Our Children on Facebook?

Viva Bianca - August 12, 2016

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How Twitter gives scientists a window into human happiness and health

Staff Writer - July 13, 2016

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EXPLORING NATURE

A white-shouldered bumblebee, Bombus appositus visits the flowers of a goldenbanner. Julian Resasco, CC BY-ND

Nature

I’ve visited the same Rocky Mountain subalpine meadow weekly for a...

Staff Writer - September 10, 2024

Julian Resasco, University of Colorado Boulder Imagine a bee crawling into a bright yellow flower. This...

The Subansiri Lower Hydroelectric Project, under construction, will be one of India’s largest hydropower dams. Nayan J. Nath, CC BY

India’s new mega-dam will roil lives downstream with wild swings in...

September 4, 2024

Horses supported travel, communication, agriculture and warfare across much of the ancient world. Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images

Domesticating horses had a huge impact on human society − new...

September 3, 2024

People enjoy spending time in nature but don’t always feel they have the ability to protect it. John Greim/LightRocket via Getty Image

Americans love nature but don’t feel empowered to protect it, new...

August 28, 2024

Fusarium oxysporum spores can remain hardy in soil for decades. Andrii Volosheniuk/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Banana apocalypse, part 2 – a genomicist explains the tricky genetics...

August 18, 2024