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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.
Almost half of Moon missions fail. Why is space still so hard?
Gail Iles, RMIT University In 2019, India attempted to land a spacecraft on the Moon – and ended…
3 ways AI is transforming music
Musicians and producers can already utilize AI to realistically reproduce the sound of any instrument or voice imaginable.…
The First Computers Were Made of… Lightbulbs?
The advent of the age of computers was ushered in by centuries of research into phenomena surrounding electricity.…
Gliding, not searching: Here’s how to reset your view of ChatGPT to steer it to better results
Thinking of ChatGPT as a glider you pilot can help you use it more effectively. Colin Anderson Productions…
Ultrasound Tech Takes Science to New Heights Using “Microfluidic Platform”
Researchers have made a groundbreaking advancement in microfluidic technology, introducing a new platform that utilizes ultrasound to manipulate…
What Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny gets right (and very wrong) about the historical Antikythera Mechanism
Disney/ Wikipedia Tatiana Bur, Australian National University At the heart of the newest film in the Indiana Jones…
Through the magnifying glass: how cutting-edge technology is helping scientists understand baby corals
Marine Gouezo, Southern Cross University and Christopher Doropoulos, CSIRO New photographic technology has allowed scientists to dive beneath…
Your genetic code has lots of ‘words’ for the same thing – information theory may help explain the redundancies
The same amino acid can be encoded by anywhere from one to six different strings of letters in…
How Do You Use a Keyboard With a Thousand Characters?
Unsurprisingly, languages that don’t use the standard English alphabet use their own unique set of characters, ranging in…
Eliminating bias in AI may be impossible – a computer scientist explains how to tame it instead
Blindly eliminating biases from AI systems can have unintended consequences. Dimitri Otis/DigitalVision via Getty Images Emilio Ferrara, University…