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Technology & Society

CS is not just about sitting in a cube programming, it’s about solving social problems through computation. | Illustration by Kevin Craft

Aug 23, 2019

Mehran Sahami: The evolution of computer science education

Technology & Society

A view of Silicon Valley at dusk from Monument Peak in the East Bay. | iStock/yhelfman

Aug 15, 2019

John Markoff: The past, present and future of Silicon Valley

Technology & Society

What if photons, the basic units of all light, powered computers? | iStock/EireenZ

Aug 9, 2019

Could light become the new electricity?

Materials, Technology & Society

Jul 30, 2019

A new algorithm enables more realistic sound effects in VR

Computation & Data, Technology & Society

How do we prepare engineers, data scientists, computer scientists, etc. to think critically about what they’re making? | Illustration by Kevin Craft

Jul 26, 2019

Jeremy Weinstein: Technology in the public interest

Technology & Society

What if work and school environments inspired a sense of well-being? | Pexels/Magda Ehlers

Jul 19, 2019

Q&A: How do we design buildings that enable occupants to thrive?

Technology & Society

Cantwell's internship involved testing the Lunar Module’s ascent engine that took astronauts off the moon and into orbit. | Image courtesy of NASA

Jul 16, 2019

Brian Cantwell: My Apollo program internship

Technology & Society

Garbage in, garbage out. | Illustration by Kevin Craft

Jul 16, 2019

A case study says data analysts face pressure to find ‘right’ answers

Technology & Society

Researchers have learned how to help plants pull more growth-promoting iron from land that’s tough to farm. | Reuters/John Sommers II

Jul 8, 2019

A new way to grow crops in marginal soils could help feed the world

Environment, Technology & Society

If we're ever going to fix echo chambers, we need to first understand what causes them. | Getty Images/DrAfter123

Jul 3, 2019

What is different about how Democrats and Republicans talk online?

Computation & Data, Technology & Society

Zac Manchester has long sought to send tiny satellites into space. With NASA, he recently put 105 of them into orbit. | Image courtesy of Linda Cicero

Jun 20, 2019

Researchers bust cost barriers by putting $100 satellites into orbit

Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

The power of thought, literally. | Illustration by Kevin Craft

Jun 20, 2019

Could prosthetic limbs one day be controlled by human thought?

Health, Technology & Society

A dream come true for video producers, this technique eliminates the need to rerecord an interview to get the best soundbyte. | Getty Images/izusek

Jun 20, 2019

A new algorithm makes editing video as easy as editing text

Computation & Data, Technology & Society

Virtual assistants could one day have more centralized access to a user’s personal data than Facebook, Amazon and Google combined. | Unsplash/penmax

Jun 4, 2019

Monica Lam: Privacy in the age of virtual assistants

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data, Technology & Society

A decision maker might think they are evaluating just the data and making decisions free from bias, but is this always true? | Reuters/Mike Segar

Jun 3, 2019

Sharad Goel: How hidden bias affects the criminal justice system

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data, Technology & Society

Do the best innovations really come from ‘aha’ moments? | Illustration by Kevin Craft

May 13, 2019

Paul Yock: Innovation in medical technology

Health, Technology & Society

Models combine health and economic information to try to understand the costs of disease. | Stocksy/Jeff Wasserman, Illustration by Kevin Craft

May 6, 2019

Margaret Brandeau: A new way of looking at a public health emergency

Computation & Data, Health, Technology & Society

Illustration of human embryonic stem cells. | Science Source/Ian Cuming

Apr 19, 2019

Tony Oro: Stem cell therapies for incurable diseases

Health, Technology & Society

The standard way to test new battery designs is time-consuming and expensive. This new method aims to change that. | iStock/anilyanik

Apr 5, 2019

Could AI be used to predict the useful life of batteries?

Artificial Intelligence, Materials, Technology & Society

The deal calls for the conversion of all U.S. power to clean, renewable energy sources and the creation of millions of green jobs. | iStock/ ilyast

Apr 2, 2019

Experts examine strengths and weaknesses of the Green New Deal

Environment, Technology & Society

How will high speed finance disrupt our financial institutions? | Unsplash/Martin Ceralde

Apr 2, 2019

How is Silicon Valley changing Wall Street?

Computation & Data, Electronics & Networking, Technology & Society

But first, we need ways to measure how efficiently quantum dots reemit the light they absorb. | iStock/phochi

Mar 25, 2019

Beyond powering QLED TVs, quantum dots could lead to new technologies

Electronics & Networking, Materials, Technology & Society

A new generation of risk assessment tools could make bail decisions more equitable. | Reuters/Morteza Nikoubazl, Unsplash/Markus Spiske, Drea Sullivan

Mar 19, 2019

Can AI help judges make the bail system fairer and safer?

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society

Could plasma power new types of space missions? | Unsplash/Juskteez Vu

Mar 14, 2019

How could we use space’s challenging environment to our advantage?

Energy, Environment, Technology & Society