In discussing where we went wrong, a panel of luminaries, including Vint Cerf and the Internet Archive's Brewster Kahle, sees three Cs: centralization, copyright, and competition.

If we become quantum tomorrow, data is lost today. Quantum comes down to size and efficiency. Current computers approach ...

It is an animal menagerie when it comes to China’s tech scene, from little dragons to AI tigers. For the uninitiated, the most familiar name will likely be the “BATs”, Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent.

The award recognizes the work and service of an outstanding chemist in the southern US ...

High blood levels of lead can be harmful, and recent headlines suggest the heavy metal has gotten ingo our food supply. Knowledge is your best defense – here's what the science and the experts say.

Happy Halloween, Short Wavers! In today’s news round-up, we’ve got only treats. Hosts Regina Barber and Emily Kwong fill in NPR’s Ailsa Chang on a debate in spider web architecture, how the details ...

Long before there were maps or names for continents, a handful of people stood at the edge of the world. Picture them on a ...

Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of Short Wave talk about spider web architecture, storytelling and memory, and why more TV pixels may not translate to a better viewing experience.

Intensive food production systems have used too much land, too much water, too much fertilizer and too much soil carbon, he ...

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It was here, surely with the help of this lovely library collection, that Hale invented the spectrohelioscope, which you can ...