Reactor turns natural gas into ingredient for plastics

With oil production dropping, a new process that uses natural gas to create a key ingredient for plastic could help avoid shortages.

U. Michigan • futurity
March 26, 2024 ~5 min

Creature Offers Clues on Amphibian Evolution

VOA Learning English • voa
March 25, 2024 ~4 min


UN Report: Electronic Waste Is Piling up

VOA Learning English • voa
March 25, 2024 ~5 min

How nature can alter our sense of time

Time pressure is bad for your health- but the answer may be right outside your door.

Jessica Thompson, PhD candidate in Environment and wellbeing, University of Salford • conversation
March 25, 2024 ~6 min

Software improves sensors that check crop health

New software acts like polarized sunglasses to improve accuracy of devices that measure the color of a plant's leaves to assess health.

Matt Shipman-NC State • futurity
March 25, 2024 ~6 min

Watch: What’s the science behind safe solar eclipse glasses?

Your regular sunglasses won't protect your eyes during next month's eclipse. An expert explains the science behind solar eclipse glasses.

Luke Auburn-Rochester • futurity
March 25, 2024 ~6 min

Large language models use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge

Researchers demonstrate a technique that can be used to probe a model to see what it knows about new subjects.

Adam Zewe | MIT News • mit
March 25, 2024 ~8 min

Engineering household robots to have a little common sense

With help from a large language model, MIT engineers enabled robots to self-correct after missteps and carry on with their chores.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News • mit
March 25, 2024 ~8 min


Study of Polyglots Shows How Brain Deals with Language

VOA Learning English • voa
March 24, 2024 ~5 min

US Quickly Adds Storage Centers for Electricity

VOA Learning English • voa
March 24, 2024 ~6 min

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