Surveillance technology deployed to combat COVID-19 can quickly be used against civil freedoms. In the last few...
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There is growing evidence that our closest extinct human relative wasn’t as dumb as scientists had long...
How to turn language, the core operating system of the humanities, into numbers. Stephen Mitchell suffered from...
The Transcontinental Railroad facilitated the colonization of western territories by encouraging new settlements on Indigenous lands. The...
The internet has allowed pseudoscience to flourish. Artificial intelligence could help steer people away from the bad...
Private companies are rushing to put thousands of small, inexpensive satellites in orbit, but low costs and...
Some countries, China most prevalent, are setting up separate root systems for their countries to “disconnect” from...
Cutting carbon use depends on changing social norms and behaviour as much as technology. Citizen action on...
Major technological breakthroughs — such as CO2 air capture — will be necessary to slow global warming....
Studying animal tooling can provide clues to the mysteries of human evolution. Human beings used to be...
Archaeological remains attest to a rise in urbanization in the 10th century BCE as reflected in building...
The first recorded observations of comets, solar eclipses, and supernovae were made in China. Introduction The history...
We have ample evidence that the constitution continues to be violated by the federal officials charged with...
As the country grew, each census required greater effort than the last. That problem led to the...
For Georgian Londoners, the allure of electric animals was both intellectual and sensual. By Ruth Garde / 04.06.2017 Curator,...
Thoreau’s attitude toward the railroad was foremost one of ambivalence. What’s The Railroad To Me? What’s the...
Beginning with a small psalm book that filled a basic need in the devotional lives of colonists,...
Many machinists even created their own variations of the difference engine after Babbage’s death. Introduction The 2008...
In Europe between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, fireworks displays were performances that told a story or...
Research has found ways to detect deepfakes through flaws that can’t be fixed easily by the fakers....
People fall for fake photos regardless of whether they seem to come from Facebook or The New...
In 1915, a congressional bill was introduced to ban all civilian wireless activities from the airwaves. Static...
Genevieve Hitt, likely the first woman to serve the U.S. government as a cryptologist, broke ground in...
The Tanks were mentioned in some manuscripts after the coming of Islam to Yemen in the 7th...
Cultural, economic, and knowledge transfer occurred in spite of a seemingly long series of hurdles that had...
As Leonardo da Vinci found centuries ago, scholars of art, design, engineering and science can work together...
Criminal justice reform advocates are sounding the alarm about the tech’s deception, and ramifications. We’ve all heard...
We can either take advantage of advances in technology to enhance human beings (never to go back),...
On October 29, 1969, an experiment at UCLA sparked a communication revolution, the implications of which are...
Humans have crafted garments for more than 40,000 years—and prehistoric tools suggest that warmth wasn’t their only...