A homeowner heads to the garden center to buy ornamental grass for the yard. They plant it, thinking it is a good way to green things up—only to find the new variety soon takes over the garden bed and spreads … Read more
Deep learning, the artificial-intelligence technology that powers voice assistants, autonomous cars, and Go champions, relies on complicated “neural network” software arranged in layers. A deep-learning system can live on a single computer, but the biggest ones are spread over thousands … Read more
EDITORIAL 11 August 2021 Governments and companies urgently need to share data on the mounting volume of satellites and debris orbiting Earth. You have full access to this article via your institution. Space junk such as broken spacecraft and inactive … Read more
Aug 10th 2021 LONDON AND NEW YORK AMERICA’S LATEST jobs report was both encouraging and sobering. The world’s largest economy added 943,000 jobs in July. That is the best tally in nearly a year—but even at this pace employment will … Read more
Like so many things in CSS, the transform property is surprisingly remarkable. At first glance, it may seem like a pretty niche thing. How often do we need to rotate or skew something, after all? And yet, the more I … Read more
The modelling is set to generate a fresh wave of alarming global headlines and will intensify calls on the world’s biggest emitters to ramp up efforts at decarbonising the global economy at the UN’s Glasgow climate summit in November. Under … Read more
Jul 24th 2021 IN 1745, AS the river Liffey, having broken its banks, clawed at the foundations of the house in which he sat, the young Edmund Burke experienced a strange, perverse thrill. The man who would go on to … Read more
Acousto-electric devices reveal new road to miniaturizing wireless tech AMPED UP — Scientists Matt Eichenfield, left, and Lisa Hackett led the Sandia team that created the world’s smallest and best acoustic amplifier. (Photo by Bret Latter) Sandia scientists have built … Read more
Mark Sabbatini first noticed the cracks in his apartment’s concrete walls in 2014. It had been six years since he moved to Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago far out in the Barents Sea, about halfway between Norway’s northern tip and the … Read more
