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Car tires and brake pads produce harmful microplastics

Scientists surveyed tiny airborne plastics near German highways and found that bits of tires, brake pads and asphalt make up most of the particles.

By Jennifer Leman | 8:38am, November 12, 2018

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Artificial Intelligence

News | Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence crowdsources data to speed up drug discovery

By Maria Temming | 2:00pm, October 18, 2018

Feature | Artificial Intelligence

Anshumali Shrivastava uses AI to wrangle torrents of data

By Maria Temming | 8:28am, September 26, 2018

News in Brief | Artificial Intelligence

A new AI can focus on one voice in a crowd

By Maria Temming | 9:00am, June 11, 2018
Computing

News | Computing

Virtual avatars learned cartwheels and other stunts from videos of people

By Maria Temming | 2:09pm, November 05, 2018

News | Computing

A new computer program generates eerily realistic fake videos

By Maria Temming | 10:33am, August 14, 2018

News in Brief | Computing

Solving problems by computer just got a lot faster

By Maria Temming | 7:00am, July 16, 2018
Numbers

Context | Numbers

Before his early death, Riemann freed geometry from Euclidean prejudices

By Tom Siegfried | 7:00am, September 28, 2018

News | Numbers

Here’s why we care about attempts to prove the Riemann hypothesis

By Emily Conover | 11:46am, September 25, 2018

Reviews & Previews | Numbers

The study of human heredity got its start in insane asylums

By Bruce Bower | 8:00am, July 01, 2018
Robotics

News in Brief | Robotics

A new robot decides how and when to transform to get the job done

By Maria Temming | 2:00pm, October 31, 2018

News in Brief | Robotics

A new palm-sized drone is mini, but mighty

By Maria Temming | 2:00pm, October 24, 2018

Teaser | Robotics

Self-driving cars see better with cameras that mimic mantis shrimp vision

By Jennifer Leman | 7:00am, October 12, 2018
Technology

News | Technology

These fragile, futuristic batteries run longer with a little oil

By Maria Temming | 2:00pm, November 08, 2018

News | Technology

Vanadium dioxide’s weird phase transition just got weirder

By Maria Temming | 2:00pm, November 01, 2018

Feature | Technology

Virtual reality therapy has real-life benefits for some mental disorders

By Maria Temming | 8:24am, November 01, 2018

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