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Television and film editors could use powerful, new editing technologies to forgo costly reshoots. | Adobe Stock/Framestock

May 4, 2021

Maneesh Agrawala: How AI is changing video editing

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data, Technology & Society

With applications in health care, forensic genetics, and human evolution, mathematical biology is more relevant than ever. | Stocksy/Liliya Rodnikova

May 3, 2021

Noah Rosenberg: How biology is becoming more mathematical

Computation & Data, Health, Technology & Society

Our existing system of massive power plants and huge networks of high-voltage wires is giving way to a much leaner system. | iStock/Sundry Photography

Apr 22, 2021

Ram Rajagopal: How the grid is becoming more human-centric

Energy, Technology & Society

Some of the difficulty of building a social chatbot stems from the vast amount of skills that go into making meaningful human conversation. | Adobe Stock/terovesalainen

Apr 15, 2021

How to create better chatbot conversations

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society

The money for clean energy solutions often flows to certain communities and not others. | Stocksy/Rowena Naylor

Apr 7, 2021

Anthony Kinslow: How to close the clean-energy divide

Energy, Environment, Technology & Society

The future will be dominated by AI | iStock/mmustafabozdemir

Mar 29, 2021

Kunle Olukotun: How to make AI more democratic

Artificial Intelligence, Electronics & Networking, Technology & Society

Jim Swartz: “This could be how we make sure the world never has to suffer a pandemic like COVID-19 again.” | Photo by Andrew Brodhead

Mar 17, 2021

A scholar shows how a rapid-response vaccine could stop pandemics

Health, Technology & Society

The internet is not the same for every person, in every part of the world. | iStock/imaginima

Mar 16, 2021

Julie Owono: How local voices will shape the global internet

Technology & Society

Diversity in engineering will be a key driver to achieving social justice and economic equality. | Photo by Christophe Wu

Mar 12, 2021

How do we make the field of engineering more diverse?

Technology & Society

Scholars of natural language processing are exploring the human emotions and social meanings behind the words we use. | Stocksy/CACTUS Creative Studio

Mar 12, 2021

Dan Jurafsky: How AI is changing our understanding of language

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data, Technology & Society

Markus Covert explores the history of vaccines and mRNA production. | iStock/DrAfter123

Mar 8, 2021

The long — and very, very short — journey to the COVID-19 vaccines

Health, Technology & Society

Blood centers, struggling to maintain supplies in the face of physical distancing practices, hope Zika testing is reconsidered. | iStock/Motortion

Mar 2, 2021

Should the United States keep screening all blood donations for Zika?

Health, Technology & Society

“Companies need innovation not only to reach the top, but to stay there.” | The Jopwell Collection

Feb 22, 2021

Riitta Katila: How diversity drives innovation

Technology & Society

Jan 26, 2021

Mutale Nkonde: How to get more truth from social media

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society

People in the developed world take plumbing for granted. Research suggests it could save women and girls hours of drudgery. | Flickr/Oxfam East Africa

Jan 20, 2021

How water piped to homes promotes gender equality in rural Zambia

Health, Technology & Society

Half of all cobalt reserves and most of current production come from just one unregulated country, Congo. | Adobe Stock/RHJ

Jan 8, 2021

Jef Caers: How better mineral exploration makes better batteries

Energy, Environment, Technology & Society

Simulated smart speaker interactions were used to test how altered moods might influence people’s trust in autonomous products. | Getty Images

Jan 4, 2021

A team of researchers study trust in autonomous products

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society

It takes vigilance and sophisticated algorithms to find the truth in an ocean of data polluted with disinformation. | Stocksy/Colin Anderson

Nov 24, 2020

Renée DiResta: How to beat bad information

Technology & Society

Researchers trained the learning robot — the goalie — to block more than 90% of the shooter robot’s attempts. | Image courtesy of Dorsa Sadigh

Nov 20, 2020

To cooperate better, robots need to think about hidden agendas

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

Scholars were able to determine that Texas high school history books mostly focus on white men. | TONL

Nov 18, 2020

AI uncovers who gets attention in high school textbooks

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society

Occupancy caps on reopened stores can lower the risks. | Unsplash/Lucas Santos

Nov 10, 2020

Researchers create a computer model to predict how COVID-19 spreads

Health, Technology & Society

Tomorrow’s chips will be stacked, like the floors of the skyscrapers on a New York block. | Shutterstock/metamorworks

Nov 9, 2020

Kwabena Boahen: How to build a super-efficient super-computer

Technology & Society

Ready, aim, sterilize: a light-based device helps resource-strapped health care providers protect themselves against COVID-19. | Shutterstock/wacomka

Nov 9, 2020

Two engineers design and donate a technique to make N95 masks reusable

Health, Technology & Society

The microlab test takes advantage of the fact that coronaviruses leave behind tiny genetic fingerprints wherever they go. | Getty Images

Nov 5, 2020

A new genetic microlab can detect COVID-19 in minutes

Health, Technology & Society