A nanostructure made of silver and an atomically thin semiconductor layer can be turned into an ultrafast switching mirror ...

Law enforcement has quickly embraced AI for everything from drafting police reports to facial recognition. The results have been predictably dismal. In one particularly glaring — and unintentionally ...

People are more likely to believe lies when there’s the possibility of a reward. Neuroimaging shows that the brain shifts into reward or risk mode depending on whether the context involves a gain or a ...

Gender-affirming pediatricians don’t offer uncertainty. They offer the confidence of settled science: the young people who enter their clinics are “transgender,” and medical interventions, such as ...

This project made me feel a kind of kinship with Diogenes, although I was searching for the item described in the title rather than for an honest man. Figure 1 “Diogenes Looking for an Honest Man,” a ...

For the Component Abuse Challenge our hacker [Tim Williams] observes that N-P-N reads the same way forwards and backwards, so… what happens if we reverse bias one? (Note: this remark about N-P-N ...

This video explains how transistors work as switches and amplifiers in electronic circuits. Transistors control the flow of current and enable signal processing in everything from small devices to ...

When people talk about “bias in the news,” it often comes with a suspicion: the idea that reporters simply repeat what they’ve been told or, worse, intentionally slant the story. The reality is far ...