Associate Professor Dean Eckles studies how our social networks affect our behavior and shape our lives. Around 2010, Facebook was a relatively small company with about 2,000 employees. So, when a PhD student named Dean Eckles showed up to serve an intership at the firm, he landed in a position with
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Researchers have successfully generated electricity directly from methylcyclohexane, an organic hydride, using solid oxide fuel cells, with lower energy than conventional catalytic dehydrogenation reactions. Methylcyclohexane (MCH), a type of organic hydride, is expected to be an excellent hydrogen carrier because it remains liquid at room temperature, is easy to transport, has
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Both the Hubble and James Webb telescopes will be used to remotely study Io, which is one of Jupiter’s moons and the most volcanically active body in the solar system. The study will complement the upcoming flybys of Io by Nasa’s Juno spacecraft and will provide insights into its contributions to
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The world of podcasting has seen explosive growth over the past decade. We are a little more than halfway in 2023; the number of podcast listeners has reached 464.7 million, a number that continues to rise. With this rapid expansion, creators find it more challenging to stand out in a
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Breakneck development of artificial intelligence risked repeating mistakes made by the tech industry at the start of the social media era, Microsoft president Brad Smith told a business forum . Rapid advancements in AI have stoked global alarm over the technology's potential for disinformation, misuse and upheaval of the labor market. But
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Growing up in the Tidewater region of Virginia, Dyanna Jaye had a front row seat to the climate crisis. She recalls beach stabilization efforts that pumped sand from the bottom of the ocean to the shore in response to rising sea levels. And every hurricane season, the streets would flood. “I
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After a summer of weather extremes, where does the world stand in its goal to stem rising temps? The summer of 2023 has been a season of weather extremes. In June, uncontrolled wildfires ripped through parts of Canada, sending smoke into the U.S. and setting off air quality alerts in dozens of
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A small cube satellite designed to demonstrate a practical, low-cost method to cut down on space debris has been built by students at Brown University. Current estimates suggest there are over 100 million pieces of space junk orbiting the Earth, ranging from debris the size of a penny to an entire
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THE Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB, and the Bank of Industry, BoI, have signed an amendment to the Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, on the $50million Nigerian Oil and Gas Park Scheme, NOGaPS Manufacturing Fund. The Fund was created by NCDMB and domiciled with BoI to attract oil and gas
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The Digital Service Act (DSA) is a set of sweeping rules aimed at reining in Big Tech and protecting the safety of users online. The EU’s historic regulations, which aim to promote a safer experience of the online world, came into effect on Friday 25 August. The DSA is the bloc’s first
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