What are small modular reactors, a new type of nuclear power plant sought to...
Leonel Lagos, Florida International University
As U.S. electricity demand rises and technology companies seek to build more and larger data centers to drive artificial intelligence...
How the internet and its bots are sabotaging scientific research
Mark Forshaw, Edge Hill University and Jekaterina Schneider, University of the West of England
There was a time, just a couple...
The push to restore semiconductor manufacturing faces a labor crisis − can the US...
Michael Moats, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Semiconductors power nearly every aspect of modern life – cars, smartphones, medical devices and even national defense...
A Critical Deficit
Flawed thinking can lead us into a lifetime of pointless arguments and bad decisions. Fixing the problem won't be easy — but we know...
Daylight saving time and early school start times cost billions in lost productivity and...
Joanna Fong-Isariyawongse, University of Pittsburgh
Investigations into the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster revealed that key decision-makers worked on little sleep, raising concerns that fatigue...
AI data centers are using more power. Regular customers are footing the bill
by Paige Gross, NC Newsline July 19, 2025 Regular energy consumers, not corporations, will bear the brunt of the increased costs of a boom...
Concrete Poetry: Thomas Edison and the Almost-Built World
By Anthony Acciavatti
Historians often speak of “contingency”, by which they mean something like “things could have been otherwise”. But is this even true? It can...
Is ChatGPT making us stupid?
Aaron French, Kennesaw State University
Back in 2008, The Atlantic sparked controversy with a provocative cover story: Is Google Making Us...
