All Stories by Payal Dhar
- Tech
A mosquito’s mouth can ‘print’ lines thinner than a human hair
Scientists turned a mosquito’s straw-like mouthpart into a 3-D printing nozzle that creates ultra-thin lines.
- Artificial Intelligence
Chatbots may make learning feel easy — but it’s shallow
People who use search engines gain deeper knowledge and care more about what they learn than those who rely on AI chatbots, a new study finds.
- Health & Medicine
Air pollution might harm children’s eye health
Scientists used machine learning to understand air pollution’s role in eye health and vision. They found children have better eyesight in cleaner air conditions.
- Physics
This microphone picks up sounds by watching them
This microphone can “hear” by viewing the tiny vibrations made in everyday objects as sound waves strike them.
- Tech
A modified glue gun squirts a material to help heal broken bones
The handheld printer might someday apply bone-repair patches directly onto fractures — complete with antibiotics to prevent infection.
- Artificial Intelligence
AI job-screening tools are very prejudiced, study finds
AI job-screening tools ranked white-associated names higher than Black-sounding ones. Male names also were preferred. Black male names were never favored.
- Tech
A Jurassic Park-inspired method can safely store data in DNA
DNA can store all types of data. An amber-like material can now protect its information long-term — or release it on demand for short-term use.
- Tech
Robotics might someday give us an extra hand
We could control a bonus limb with the movements of our diaphragm.
- Health & Medicine
Period blood could help diagnose diabetes and other illnesses
A new test for diabetes is the first diagnostic tool based on period blood. But it may be just the beginning.
- Space
Here’s how to build an internet on Mars
Future Red Planet residents will need to get online to talk to each other and Earth. But that will require a lot of new tech.
- Humans
Explainer: What is autism?
Autism is not a disease, but a description used to characterize a certain type of brain development.
- Tech
Human teleportation? This century we’re stuck doing it virtually
If teleportation is defined as being transported instantly to another place, then it’s already happening — via extended reality and holograms.
