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A swarm of honeybees can provide valuable lessons about how a group of many individuals can work together to accomplish a task, even with no one in charge. Roboticists are taking notes.
The group seemed to be doing all of the right things to diversify its ranks. It wasn't enough.
Perancang teknologi dan masyarakat perlu melihat dengan saksama bagaimana informasi dari sistem kecerdasan buatan digunakan dalam proses pengambilan keputusan.
When a person or agency backed by the power and resources of the government tells a lie, it sometimes causes harm that only the government can inflict.
A report calls for banning the use of emotion recognition technology. An AI and computer vision researcher explains the potential and why there's growing concern.
School officials can do a better job engaging families of color. Here are five ways for them to start.
In the wake of the New Deal, the business community realized that appealing to widely shared American values could get the public to oppose measures that curbed corporate power.
Largely unknown today, Bourbaki was the last mathematician to master nearly all aspects of the field. There’s just one problem: Bourbaki never existed.
Modified commercial drones are getting more powerful and can easily be turned into weapons. A researcher argues for ways to prevent their development.
As smartphone uptake and connectivity grows in Africa, so does the often unhealthy trend of young people betting on sports using their phones.
The technician who gave you that shiny manicure may be inhaling dangerous levels of toxic chemicals on the job.
Drought-driven humanitarian emergencies can be prevented if groundwater is reliably made available at strategic locations.
Yang menjadi ironi adalah para miliarder yang menciptakan masalah ini akan bisa bertahan hidup, sementara kita semua mati kepanasan di dalam mobil pengap berukuran planet.
Martin Luther is credited with initiating the split in Christianity that came to be called the Protestant Reformation. But don't count out Erasmus, an early proponent of similarly radical ideas.
Mobile loan platforms have given Kenyans access to easy loans, but they come at a high price.
'Two polar bears walk into a bar ...' is an unlikely opener for a joke, but memes and parodies are surprisingly effective ways to get people talking about climate change.
A new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report makes clear human-induced climate change threatens the health and function of the ocean and cryosphere - the frozen regions of the Earth.
The backlog in naturalization applications has ballooned to more than 700,000. Wait times have doubled in the last three years.
Studies show that the Arctic is heating up twice as fast as the rest of the planet.
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Research Scientist, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of Public Relations, University of Colorado Boulder
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Assistant Professor Environmental Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
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Assistant Professor of Journalism, University of Colorado Boulder
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Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder
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Ph.D. Candidate in Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado Boulder
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Associate Professor, University of Colorado Boulder
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Rothgerber Chair in Constitutional Law, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of English Literature, University of Colorado Boulder
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Research Associate, Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering Department, University of Colorado Boulder
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Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Director, Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Colorado Boulder
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Associate Director of the National Education Policy Center, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of Law and Political Science, University of Colorado Boulder
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Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder
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Senior Research Associate, One Earth Future Foundation, University of Colorado Boulder
