Discoveries Shed Light on How Pompeii Survivors Resumed Life After the Volcanic Eruption
On August 24 in 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, shooting over three cubic miles of debris up to 20 miles (32.1 kilometers) in the air. As …
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Next-Generation Spaceplanes Are the Cutting-Edge Evolution of the Space Shuttle Dream
NASA’s Space Shuttle operated in low-Earth orbit for 30 years before its retirement in 2011. However, the US space agency’s replacement for this vehicle, Orion, …
2023 Should Have Been D&D's Best Year, Until It Wasn't
Although it feels like it can be said every year recently, it’s hard to imagine a better year in terms of its influence than 2023 …
NASA’s Mars Rovers Could Inspire a More Ethical Future for AI
Since ChatGPT’s release in late 2022, many news outlets have reported on the ethical threats posed by artificial intelligence. Tech pundits have issued warnings of …
AI Fatalism Won't Help Us Deal With Its Actual Risks
Illustration: 80’s Child (Shutterstock) Can AI Help with Mental Health? Over the past few months, artificial intelligence (AI) has entered the global conversation as a …
How Should an AI Explore the Moon?
Photo: University of Alberta Can AI Help with Mental Health? Rapid progress in artificial intelligence (AI) has spurred some leading voices in the field to …
How ChatGPT and Generative AI Could Foster Science Denial
Photo: Spencer Platt (Getty Images) Generating Video Via Text? | Future Tech Until very recently, if you wanted to know more about a controversial scientific …
How AI Could Take Over Elections—And Undermine Democracy
Image: Andrey_Popov (Shutterstock) Maybe AI-Written Scripts are a Bad Idea? Could organizations use artificial intelligence language models such as ChatGPT to induce voters to behave …
What Would AI Regulation Look Like?
Photo: Win McNamee (Getty Images) Generating Video Via Text? | Future Tech Takeaways: A new federal agency to regulate AI sounds helpful but could become …
Is AI Creativity Possible?
The ‘Portrait of Edmond de Bellamy’ was produced by a generative adversarial network that was fed a data set of 15,000 portraits spanning six centuries.Image: …