A recent international study led by IIT-Madras reveals that human activity significantly alters cloud formation. Following the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown, cloud-forming particles over coastal India surged ...

Antarctica, Earth’s last great wilderness, is facing growing pressure from human activity. A new study published in Nature Sustainability warns that surging tourism and expanding research bases are ...

What if a helper robot could sense when your brain was tired? Assistant professor Maria Kyrarini receives two major NSF ...

The Metropolitan Police’s use of live facial-recognition (LFR) technology is unlawful, according to UK equality watchdog, citing the need for deployments of the technology to be necessary, ...

The UK's equality regulator has criticised the Metropolitan Police's use of live facial recognition technology (LFRT), saying the way it is being deployed is breaching human rights law. The tech works ...

The two-day street festival is a celebration of Caribbean culture and attracts around 2 million revellers. Around 7,000 police officers and staff are on duty at the carnival each day - and the use of ...

Every creative industry wrestles with the same tension: progress versus preservation. Each new tool, whether it was the printing press in publishing, the digital camera in photography, or the drum ...

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A research team from Stanford University has developed a prototype that uses solar energy to extract nutrients from human urine to create a sustainable fertilizer. They presented the system in ...

Checked for accuracy by our qualified verifiers and subject experts. Find out more about fact-checking at CHOICE. Australia's privacy laws aren't keeping up with the growing uses of facial recognition ...