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Engineering innovations from the brightest minds helped shape our modern world—a world in which the most advanced in human technology is now literally within our grasp. Devices that used to fill a room can now fit inside our pockets. Naturally, it doesn’t stop there; here at Modern Sciences, we wish to show where it can go by showcasing the latest in technological developments from new and improved protocols to the latest in electronics and assistive technology.
How AI can (and can’t) help lighten your load at work
SObeR 9426/Shutterstock Akhil Bhardwaj, University of Bath Legend has it that William Tell shot an apple from his…
A robot nearly headbutted a festival spectator in China – here are four urgent steps to make the tech safer
Humanoid robots will start to become much more common as prices tumble. thinkhubstudio Carl Strathearn, Edinburgh Napier University…
What are AI hallucinations? Why AIs sometimes make things up
What springs from the ‘mind’ of an AI can sometimes be out of left field. gremlin/iStock via Getty…
Seven advances in technology that we’re likely to see in 2025
Head mounted devices are making “mixed reality” technology more accessible. Ivan Baranov / Shutterstock Lewis Endlar, Keele University…
The Dawn of Video Streaming
In the early 1990s, researchers at Cambridge University devised a simple yet groundbreaking solution to remotely monitor their…
AI could supercharge human collective intelligence in everything from disaster relief to medical research
Top tech team: surgeons operating with help frm artificial intelligence. Have a nice day Photo Hao Cui, Trinity…
AI System Detects Wildfires in Amazon Rainforest with 93% Accuracy
At a Glance Researchers at the Universidade Federal do Amazonas in Brazil have developed an innovative method to…
Microsoft just claimed a quantum breakthrough. A quantum physicist explains what it means
Microsoft says the Majorana 1 processor is a ‘transformative leap toward practical quantum computing’. Microsoft Stephan Rachel, The…
How satellites revolutionised climate change science
aappp / shutterstock Will de Freitas, The Conversation Until relatively recently, humans were limited by the horizon. Climate…
OpenAI’s new ‘deep research’ agent is still just a fallible tool – not a human-level expert
Jan Antonin Kolar/Unsplash Raffaele F Ciriello, University of Sydney OpenAI’s “deep research” is the latest artificial intelligence (AI)…