Artificial intelligence is as revolutionary as mobile phones and the Internet. By Bill Gates In my lifetime, I’ve seen two demonstrations of technology that struck me as revolutionary. The first time was in 1980, when I was introduced to a graphical…
10 Big Findings from the 2023 IPCC Report on Climate Change
March 20 marked the release of the final installment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), an eight-year long undertaking from the world’s most authoritative scientific body on climate change. Drawing on the findings of 234…
Can fibre optic cables provide early earthquake warnings?
Scientists are developing a new earthquake warning system called distributed acoustic sensing (DAS), which uses fibre optic cables to detect seismic waves and has the potential to provide more extensive coverage than traditional systems. When two massive earthquakes struck southern Türkiye…
