More from Charlotte Hu

boy playing video game
Internet

Is online gaming a good way for lonely young men to find friends?

By Charlotte Hu

two drones coming together while flying
Engineering

These nifty drones can lock together in mid-air to form a bigger, stronger robot

By Charlotte Hu

pastel-colored room with many chairs and many cats perched around the room on chairs and shelves.
AI

The logic behind AI chatbots like ChatGPT is surprisingly basic

By Charlotte Hu

Jaguar's Formula E racecar
Engineering

How Formula E race cars are guiding Jaguar’s EV future

By Charlotte Hu

airplane flying in clouds
Engineering

Inside Delta’s in-house meteorology wing

By Charlotte Hu

food wrapped in aluminum foil
DIY

Scientists shake crumpled tinfoil to create electricity

By Charlotte Hu

Orion space capsule capturing surface of moon during NASA Artemis I mission
Engineering

An art-filled time capsule is headed for the moon

By Charlotte Hu

multiple choice scantron with pencil
AI

GPT-3 is pretty good at taking the SATs

By Charlotte Hu

a robot starting at toy objects on table
AI

Robots could now understand us better with some help from the web

By Charlotte Hu

hyperspectral imagery next to black and white imagery
Engineering

Hyperspectral imaging can detect chemical signatures of earthbound objects from space

By Charlotte Hu

wood cross sections
Engineering

DARPA would like to make scrap wood stronger with WUD

By Charlotte Hu

Model of the Titanic and the Boeing 737 Max at the Museum of Failure.
Engineering

The Museum of Failure challenges how we think about mistakes

By Charlotte Hu

the view from on a container ship
Engineering

The first container ship fueled by food scraps is ready to set sail

By Charlotte Hu

Ford Bronco
DIY

I learned stick shift from the pros—here’s how it went

By Charlotte Hu

The Ultium platform is the foundation of GM’s EV strategy, including the battery cells, modules and pack, plus drive units containing electric motors and integrated power electronics
Electric Vehicles

General Motors wants to predict when battery fires might happen

By Charlotte Hu

the bottom of AWS' chandelier for quantum networks
Engineering

Peek inside the lab working on quantum memories

By Charlotte Hu

A close-up of a Raspberry Pi computer circuit board.
Engineering

How bits, bytes, ones, and zeros help a computer think

By Charlotte Hu

fake raspberry for testing robot pickers
Robots

This robot used a fake raspberry to practice picking fruit

By Charlotte Hu

Microsoft's quantum computing infrastructure
Engineering

Microsoft sets its sights on a quantum supercomputer

By Charlotte Hu

cryostat infrastructure of a quantum computer
Engineering

Quantum computers are starting to become more useful

By Charlotte Hu

models posing
AI

Google’s new AI will show how clothes look on different body types

By Charlotte Hu

Spotted lanternfly adult on leaf
Engineering

This lanternfly-egg-hunting robot could mean fewer bugs to squish

By Charlotte Hu

a tunnel in a sewer system
Engineering

Taiwan sent mosquito-fighting robots into its sewers

By Charlotte Hu

Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, CT.
Internet

Yale’s new research tool will lead you down a rabbit hole of knowledge

By Charlotte Hu

Tesla supercharging station.
Electric Vehicles

Ford EVs can soon be charged at Tesla stations

By Charlotte Hu

Ioniq 6 EV
Climate Change

Electric cars are better for the environment, no matter the power source

By Charlotte Hu

eggs in a nest
Animals

Spy tech and rigged eggs help scientists study the secret lives of animals

By Charlotte Hu

McLaren's F1 race car
AI

An inside look at the data powering McLaren’s F1 team

By Charlotte Hu

Illustration of a submarine communications cable.
Engineering

Why the EU wants to build an underwater cable in the Black Sea

By Charlotte Hu

Google I/O presentation about their updated language model named Gecko.
AI

Google previews an AI-powered future at I/O 2023

By Charlotte Hu

centipede robot
Engineering

To build a better crawly robot, add legs—lots of legs

By Charlotte Hu

A rendering of Proteus.
Conservation

An ambitious underwater ‘space station’ just got a major research collaborator

By Charlotte Hu

airplanes at different gates in an airport
Engineering

How a quantum computer tackles a surprisingly difficult airport problem

By Charlotte Hu

northern lights over the Arctic ocean
AI

Arctic researchers built a ‘Fish Disco’ to study ocean life in darkness

By Charlotte Hu

a hydrophone underwater monitoring corals
AI

Google is inviting citizen scientists to its underwater listening room

By Charlotte Hu

A xenobot, or a living robot, in culture, under a microscope.
Biology

Meet xenobots, tiny machines made out of living parts

By Charlotte Hu

Pin-tailed sandgrouse in a body of water
Engineering

How a dumpy, short-legged bird could change water bottle designs

By Charlotte Hu

Magnetic tape and Blu-Ray Discs for data storage forming an infinity sign on a yellow background. Illustrated.
Ask Us Anything

Inside the search for the best way to save humanity’s data

By Charlotte Hu

silent speech-recognizing glasses
AI

These glasses can pick up whispered commands

By Charlotte Hu

man standing in front of flights screen at airport
AI

Google Flights’ new feature will ‘guarantee’ the best price

By Charlotte Hu

Why researchers surveyed more than 1.1 billion objects across 73 museums
Environment

Why researchers surveyed more than 1.1 billion objects across 73 museums

By Charlotte Hu

books and statues in a library
Internet

Internet Archive just lost a federal lawsuit against big book publishers

By Charlotte Hu

plant leaf up close
Engineering

Tiny, fast lasers are unlocking the mysteries of photosynthesis

By Charlotte Hu

paper airplanes
Engineering

Engineers created a paper plane-throwing bot to learn more about flight

By Charlotte Hu

Dr. Alan Karthikesalingam presenting at the Google health event.
AI

Google’s AI doctor appears to be getting better

By Charlotte Hu

the spotify app on a phone screen
Biology

Spotify wants to understand your body on music

By Charlotte Hu

electrodes hooked up to mushrooms
Engineering

Inside the lab that’s growing mushroom computers

By Charlotte Hu

spotify's ai dj feature in their app
AI

Meet Spotify’s new AI DJ

By Charlotte Hu

An architecture mockup of the Hunter's Point South Park.
Engineering

The ability for cities to survive depends on smart, sustainable architecture

By Charlotte Hu

The Icefin robot under the sea ice.
Climate Change

A torpedo-like robot named Icefin is giving us the full tour of the ‘Doomsday’ glacier

By Charlotte Hu

a cuttlefish in darkness
Engineering

Cuttlefish have amazing eyes, so robot-makers are copying them

By Charlotte Hu

A prototype of QuEra's neutral atom quantum computer.
Engineering

How neutral atoms could help power next-gen quantum computers

By Charlotte Hu

Google SVP Prabhakar Raghavan at the AI event in Paris
AI

The highlights and lowlights from the Google AI event

By Charlotte Hu

A white robotic hand moving a black pawn as the opening move of a chess game played atop a dark wooden table.
AI

A simple guide to the expansive world of artificial intelligence

By Charlotte Hu

migrating birds above body of water
Animals

No one can predict exactly where birds go, but this mathematical model gets close

By Charlotte Hu

two hands
Engineering

A new artificial skin could be more sensitive than the real thing

By Charlotte Hu

cornell soft robot
Robots

A squishy new robot uses syringes and physics to mosey along

By Charlotte Hu

movie set
Engineering

From film to forensics, here’s how lidar laser systems are helping us visualize the world

By Charlotte Hu

drone on branch
Aviation

It’s not a UFO—this drone is scooping animal DNA from the tops of trees

By Charlotte Hu

high rise buildings in new york
Climate Change

This startup plans to collect carbon pollution from buildings before it’s emitted

By Charlotte Hu

An image of the Thwaites Glacier from NASA
AI

The ‘Doomsday’ glacier is fracturing and changing. AI can help us understand how.

By Charlotte Hu

doctor on computer
AI

This AI is no doctor, but its medical diagnoses are pretty spot on

By Charlotte Hu

murder mystery illustration
AI

Only 4 people have been able to solve this 1934 mystery puzzle. Can AI do better?

By Charlotte Hu

volcano erupting
Robots

Monitoring volcanoes that could explode? A drone is on it.

By Charlotte Hu