Short-form videos have become one of the dominant ways young people engage with social media. These are clips lasting seconds up to a few minutes, driven by personalized algorithms that are deeply ...

Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) have developed a solid polymer coated with harmless viruses to detect ...

The research, published on April 24th, 2026, in Nature Microbiology, describes how the new tool, called TRAnsmision ...

Pollen, algae, insects, radiolarians – each unique microfossil holds clues to how Earth has changed over millions of years.

A startup that grew out of the University of Massachusetts Amherst food science department, BactiSee, won the top prize of ...

The world’s largest animal migration and ocean gyres play vital roles in the global carbon cycle. Scientists went into the ...

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Social media companies are under pressure to crack down on so-called deepfake videos that use deceptive images of real people. By Natallie Rocha Reporting from San Francisco YouTube is adding a ...

AI face swapping used to be a party trick. Now it’s quietly becoming a serious shortcut for creativity. Creators use it to localize marketing campaigns. Meme accounts use it to generate viral parody ...

For those of us who weren't paying attention, over the last few years, scientists around the world have been one-upping each other in a bid to create the smallest QR code that can be reliably read.