From Steps To Storms: In Davos, Art Makes Humans Part Of The Environment

At the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting, artist and technologist Ronen Tanchum taps AI for an installation that merges real-time climate data and human movement.

What We Know About the Winter Storm About to Hit the US—and What We Don’t

A huge portion of the United States is going to be hit with snow or freezing rain this weekend. Exactly where, what, and how much remains uncertain.

New York City Nurses And Hospitals Dig In During Strike’s Second Week

In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at why Yann LeCun’s AI startup is focused on healthcare, Epic’s new predictive tools, and more.

Echoes Of A Lost Shtetl: How Sound Is Recreating A Vanished Jewish World

Through historical research and careful sound design, the Lost Shtetl Museum uses immersive audio to reconstruct the daily rhythms, and ultimate demise, of shtetl life.

Trump is steamrolling global calls for a moratorium on deep-sea mining
Trump is steamrolling global calls for a moratorium on deep-sea mining

The Trump administration took the next step toward unilaterally jumpstarting deep-sea mining this week, announcing a “consolidated” permitting process for both searching for and commercially extracting minerals that have so far remained relatively untouched. These minerals are found so deep in the sea that they’re beyond any single nation’s national jurisdiction – which is why […]

A Psychologist Shares An 8-Question Quiz That Reveals Your True ‘BFF’ Style (Based On Personality Science)

Female friendships take many forms. Discover your go-to friendship style with this short, psychologist-designed quiz.

4 Ways To Replace Your Over-Explaining Habit, By A Psychologist

Overexplaining is not a personality defect. It is a learned habit of ensuring one’s safety when the world appears unpredictable.

Meet Dracaena — The Tree That Seeps With Bright Red ‘Dragon’s Blood’

The story of dragon’s blood spans folklore, botany and biochemistry. Here’s how it teaches us how trees respond to injury with blood-red resilience.

OpenAI says its data centers will pay for their own energy and limit water usage
OpenAI says its data centers will pay for their own energy and limit water usage

OpenAI says it will minimize water use and pay for energy infrastructure upgrades needed to power its data centers. “We’re being good neighbors,” the company said, directly addressing the growing opposition to AI projects amid rising utility bills. “We commit to paying our own way on energy, so that our operations don’t increase your electricity […]

The AI Boom Will Increase US Carbon Emissions—but It Doesn’t Have To

A new analysis finds that data centers’ energy demands will drastically increase power plant emissions over the next decade. Renewables, though, could cut them while helping keep prices from rising.