Brazilian researchers have developed an index that can measure the health of mangrove soils at different stages. When applied to degraded, restored, and preserved areas, the index revealed that ...

TRUTH: For decades, textbooks showed a " taste map " dividing the tongue into zones for sweet, sour, salty, and bitter flavors. That chart traces back to a misreading of a 1901 dissertation by German ...

Driving past Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, I noticed a billboard that reads something like, “We treat your cancer like it’s YOUR cancer.” The message is more than a slogan. It ...

The internet was designed to route around damage. In the pursuit of convenience and scale, the tech industry has rebuilt key parts of it around a small number of global trust brokers for names, ...

For most people, Google Maps is a simple tool used to find directions or check what a place looks like before visiting. But ...

X’s Grok is failing to accurately verify video footage from the Iran conflict and is sharing its own AI-generated images about the war. When disinformation expert Tal Hagin asked Grok to verify a post ...

UNESCO declared there is a 100 per cent chance of a tsunami of at least one metre high in the Mediterranean Sea in the next 30 years ...

Ambulance and community groups have accused Telstra of being “misleading and deceptive” with how it calculates its network coverage maps, saying they create “a false sense of security for travellers ...

Lake: Artificial intelligence, done right, can bring to classrooms the same focus, individualization, urgency and care doctors use in saving lives.

How to Avoid Common Travel Mistakes starts with a short pre-trip check and a calm plan for day one. Most problems come ...

Sanford Hess and Michelle Jett answer two reader questions this week: on how the county board can address the effects of climate change at a local level, and how they'd ...

From artificial intelligence to fatalities from music streaming to the effects of immigrants on elderly health care, the Planet Money newsletter rounds up some interesting new economic studies.