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AI can manipulate a real event or invent one from thin air to create a ‘situation deepfake.’ These deepfakes threaten to influence upcoming elections, but you can still protect your vote.
Some people incorrectly say the Moon landings didn’t happen. But the evidence – and logic – isn’t on their side.
Cell cultures are common tools in biology and drug development. Bringing them up to scale to meet the meat needs of societies will require further development.
More than 11 million migrants who lack papers live in the United States, and many of them are ineligible for health coverage.
Companies tend to focus on appeasing angry customers after a data breach. New research shows they may want to pay more attention to customers who are afraid to return to their site.
When everything is seen as political – indictments, Supreme Court decisions, scientific findings – a democracy may be on its way to fascism.
President Joe Biden signed an executive order in 2022 tightening the rules for foreign investment in the US.
Generative AI can seem like magic, which makes it both enticing and frightening. Scholars are helping society come to grips with the potential benefits and harms.
Legislation meant to improve cybersecurity could be difficult to implement and might create incentives for riskier digital behavior.
Two food scientists, an entomologist, an anthropologist, a veterinarian and a historian walk into a bar (of chocolate) and tell bitter and sweet stories of this favorite treat.
Superconductors are materials that can transmit electricity without any resistance. Researchers are getting closer to creating superconducting materials that can function in everyday life.
The House of Representatives is breaking norms and establishing a new way for the body to do business.
Your experience of time is relative because it depends on motion – more specifically, your speed and acceleration.
Powerful AI tools available to anyone with an internet connection make it easy to impersonate someone’s voice, increasing the threat of phone scams.
Following the controversial births of the first gene-edited babies, a major focus of the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing was responsible use of CRISPR.
During the brainstorming stage of the design process, AI-powered image generation programs can open creative doors that may have otherwise never been accessed.
A roundup of The Conversation’s articles about this holy Christian season and its history.
A philosopher unpacks the ‘ethics of belief’ for an age awash in bad information.
The incentives to bring manufacturing back to the US will affect productivity, but in ways that might be surprising.
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Distinguished Professor, Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, & Interim Head, Department of Sustainability, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Dean of the College of Science, Professor of Biochemistry, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Chair, Department of Science, Technology, and Society, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Postdoctoral Research Associate of Computing Security, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Assistant Professor of Design, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Associate Professor of Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Professor of Computing Security, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Professor of Astronomy and Physics, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Professor of Marketing, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Professor of Anthropology, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Senior Lecturer of Computing Security, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Rochester Institute of Technology
