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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 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)…
New LiDAR System Captures High-Resolution 3D Images from 1 Kilometer Away
At a Glance Scientists have developed a cutting-edge LiDAR system capable of capturing high-resolution 3D images up to…
AI gives nonprogrammers a boost in writing computer code
AI coding handles the hard parts for nonprogrammers. Andriy/Moment via Getty Images Leo Porter, University of California, San…
Supersonic jets are making a comeback – but despite the hype, don’t expect to book yet
Rendering of Boom Supersonic’s proposed Overture supersonic airliner. Boom Supersonic Chris James, The University of Queensland Late last…
How psychologists kick-started AI by studying the human mind
The Mark I Perceptron used one of the first artificial neural networks to identify letters of the alphabet.…
LLMs, Explained
Large language models predict the next word in a sequence by analyzing vast amounts of text data and…
The Surprising Usefulness of Insectoid Robots
Scientists are creating microrobots that mimic the abilities of insects, such as swimming, flying, and walking on water,…
AI-based technology could reduce the number of controversial decisions in boxing
Gorodenkoff / Shutterstock Kamran Mahroof, University of Bradford and Saima Sammad, University of Bradford Boxing, the “sweet science”,…
Next generation computers: new wiring material could transform chip technology
Mark Greenaway, Loughborough University; Fasil Dejene, Loughborough University, and Kelly Morrison, Loughborough University The rapid technological advancements of…