Social media can be addictive even for adults, but there are ways to cut back
Social media addiction has been compared to casinos, opioids and cigarettes.
Feb 21, 2026
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New perspective charts path to next-generation water and energy membranes
When you turn on a faucet, charge an electric vehicle or use products made with clean hydrogen, you may not realize that membranes—ultrathin films perforated with pores too small to see—make these modern processes possible. ...
Feb 21, 2026
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Consumer & Gadgets
Humanoid home robots are on the market—but do we really want them?
Last year, Norwegian-US tech company 1X announced a strange new product: "the world's first consumer-ready humanoid robot designed to transform life at home."
Feb 20, 2026
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Engineering
Tackling uplift resistance in tall infrastructure sustainably
Tall structures like radio towers experience high wind loads that generate uplift forces at their foundations, a challenge that is increasing burden, as natural occurrences like typhoons and tornadoes become more frequent ...
Feb 20, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
'Alpha male' AI world shuts out women: Computing prof Hall
Artificial intelligence could change the world but the dearth of women in the booming sector will undermine pledges for inclusive technology, top computer scientist Wendy Hall told AFP on Friday.
Feb 20, 2026
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Mississippi hospital system closes all clinics after ransomware attack
A ransomware attack forced the University of Mississippi Medical Center to close all of its roughly three dozen clinics around the state and cancel elective procedures for a second day on Friday, hobbling one of Mississippi's ...
Feb 20, 2026
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Investigating how people respond to air taxi noise
New kinds of aircraft taking to the skies could mean unfamiliar sounds overhead—and where you're hearing them might matter, according to new NASA research. NASA aeronautics has worked for years to enable new air transportation ...
Feb 20, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
You can give old batteries a new life by safely recycling them
When household batteries die, it's hard to know what to do with them. So they get shoved into a junk drawer or sheepishly thrown into the trash.
Feb 20, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
We trust AI with life and death decisions, but humans still don't challenge the AI's choices
AI systems already decide how ambulances are routed, how supply chains operate and how autonomous drones plan their missions. Yet when those systems make a risky or counterintuitive choice, humans are often expected to accept ...
Feb 20, 2026
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Computer Sciences
3D vision technology powers factory automation
One night in 2010, Mohit Gupta decided to try something before leaving the lab. Then a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University, Gupta was in the final days of an internship at a manufacturing company in Boston. He'd spent ...
Feb 20, 2026
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