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The technology could become more intelligent than people and eventually take over, according to Yoshua Bengio The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) could pose grave risks to humanity as it becomes harder to control, renowned computer scientist Yoshua Bengio has warned. A professor at the University of Montreal and head of the Montreal Institute […]
The cosmos may feel totally inaccessible to the average human, that reminder of an infinite expanse that looks cool to everyone but can only be understood by solitary geniuses. Julia Roman-Duval sees outer space differently. The astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), the Johns Hopkins– and Hampden-headquartered operations center for NASA’s top telescopes, […]
R.V. Jones (left), DCI James Woolsey, and Jeanne de Clarens. Early life and education R.V. Jones was born on September 29, 1911, in Herne Hill, London, to a family of modest means. From an early age, he exhibited an intense curiosity for how things worked, which led him to pursue studies in physics. Jones attended […]
Barnes Neville Wallis. Early life and education Wallis’s early life provided the foundation for his eventual career in engineering. His father, Charles Wallis, was a doctor, but young Barnes developed an early fascination with mechanical objects, much to his father’s frustration. After attending Christ’s Hospital school in Sussex, where he displayed a knack for mathematics […]
It has been nearly 70 years since Francis Thomas Bacon developed a source of clean green energy that would help power the first moon landing and change the course of history. Yet, few are aware of the Essex-born, Cambridge-based engineer whose invention of the first working hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell helped send Apollo 11 to the […]
The presidential candidate’s mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, was a breast cancer researcher whose egalitarian politics often bucked a patriarchal lab culture. Source link
“Cemeteries are full of life,” says biologist Anne Pringle as she walks through the Forest Hill Cemetery in Madison, Wisconsin. It’s a bright, early October day and sunlight filters through the still-green leaves, catching strands of spider silk spun over tombstone crosses. Speckled mushrooms stand sentry over the manicured grass as squirrels chatter overhead. But […]
This person’s boss had some feedback for them, but it was so vague that the employee was left baffled. Most employees have quarterly or yearly check-ins with their supervisors. It’s a good way to manage expectations and address any concerning employee behavior before it becomes a major problem. This person worked on a team of […]
Getty Images Iceland is one of the world’s most volcanically active places I’m in one of the world’s volcanic hotspots, northeast Iceland, near the Krafla volcano. A short distance away I can see the rim of the volcano’s crater lake, while to the south steam vents and mud pools bubble away. Krafla has erupted around […]
I have to confess, I struggle to watch science documentaries these days – I prefer a bit of escapism from work. But one series I will definitely be tuning in to is the BBC’s Solar System, presented by Brian Cox (pictured above). I didn’t watch Cox’s first series on this topic, made 15 years ago, […]