WES-Tec Global is recycling plastic waste. However, instead of turning it into deck boards or lawn furniture, the South Korean startup is using it to make something called the ECOCCUBE – solid blocks that can be used to make levees and shoreline reinforcements in areas prone to flooding.
The liver is the only human organ that can regenerate itself when it’s sick or been damaged. However, most people dealing with acute liver failure die before a replacement can be transplanted.
In January 1776, Thomas Paine published Common Sense, a pamphlet that gave voice to the discontent of a nation struggling to free itself from a tyrannical ruler who believed power flowed from his own will rather than the consent of the governed.
Everyday chemicals from pesticides, plastics, and flame retardants act like hidden antibiotics in your gut, killing beneficial bacteria that support digestion, immunity, and metabolic health.
Recently I attended the viewing of a wonderful documentary called Young@Heart by the British director Stephen Walker.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week made it faster and easier for manufacturers to push some wearables out to the consumer market by bypassing the agency’s medical device review process.
After speaking with 500 AI experts, educators, and students in 50 countries, and reviewing relevant studies, researchers at the Brookings Institution's Center for Universal Education have reached a conclusion: AI in schools carries serious risks for students.
AI is saving white-collar workers time, which they then use to check AI’s work and correct its mistakes, according to a study by Workday, a business services website.
Unpaid household tasks such as buying groceries or vacuuming the carpet represent a value equivalent to 15 percent of U.S. GDP, by some estimates.
Through the creation of low-priced open-source models subsidized lavishly by Beijing,
China is spreading its AI presence and technologies to more users faster than Western developers are, Microsoft president Brad Smith said in a Financial Times interview.