Due to climate change, extreme weather events such as flooding are expected to increase in Germany in the future. This poses hidden risks to the health care system that have hardly been the focus of ...

Advances in ultrasound—the same imaging technology that uses sound waves to allow doctors to monitor babies in utero—are ...

AI optimists envision a future where artificial general intelligence (AGI) surpasses human intelligence, but the path remains riddled with scientific and logistical hurdles.

To be human is, fundamentally, to be a forecaster. Occasionally a pretty good one. Trying to see the future, whether through the lens of past experience or the logic of cause and effect, has helped us ...

Construction faces a critical workforce shortage, but technology, AI and education partnerships can close the skills gap, boost productivity and create long-term competitive advantage.

Existing defect detection tools using ultrasound rely on phased array ultrasound. In this method, many transducers are pointed in the same direction to generate an image of that specific area. This ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a deep learning algorithm that ...

According to Sawyer Merritt, Elon Musk has accepted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's invitation to participate in the Smart Transportation Conference in March 2026. Discussions between ...

Quantum computing is an emerging paradigm that leverages the principles of quantum mechanics to solve computational problems beyond the reach of classical computers. This article provides an overview ...

For the first time, Instagram will start letting you control the topics its algorithm recommends, much as you now can on TikTok. The new feature is starting with the Reels tab but will eventually come ...

Instagram is back with a new feature that will allow users to "tune" their algorithm to only display the content they prefer to see, which will be first made available to Reels. The feature is still ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...