From live speech translation in video calls to auto-dubbing on TikTok, the technology to dissolve language barriers has ...

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Data centers are increasingly running into local opposition, for a variety of reasons. The two most-cited complaints are power consumption driving up electricity rates, and noise from the generators ...

Female ballet dancer dancing with pointes in the street with a long red dress, in the street of Lyon, France. The first time I went to a ballet alone, I worried I’d remember the aloneness of the ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Some people don’t struggle with productivity. They just need more transition time for their ...

Well, today is Valentine's Day, which means love and connection are on people's minds, and I recently met someone who studies one form of affection, kissing. Matilda Brindle is an evolutionary ...

In February, a pop-up science column, Annals of Inquiry, is appearing in place of Kyle Chayka’s column, Infinite Scroll. Chayka will return in March. Forty years ago, Bill Weiss, a student at Columbia ...

This video breaks down the bizarre legal battle over who owns the JavaScript name. Despite not creating or maintaining the language, Oracle controls the trademark. The story traces how this happened ...

This Pew Research Center report examines religious switching in the United States, including the reasons people give for staying in or leaving their childhood religion. It also looks at social and ...

I am lucky to have taken some incredible trips, including a recent one to “the end of the earth”: the island of Tierra del Fuego, the southernmost point of South America. In a week, we traveled by ...

This is the time of year when Nicole Hughes gets constantly distracted by the fall foliage as she drives around North Carolina. "I'm always looking," says Hughes, a biologist at High Point University.

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