The danger is not that AI will fail us, but that people will accept the mediocrity of its outputs as the norm. When everything is fast, frictionless and “good enough,” there’s the risk of losing the ...

Astronomers are developing plans and technology for increasingly powerful space telescopes. For instance, NASA is working on its proposed Habitable Worlds Observatory, which would take ultrasharp ...

The 1965 Immigration Act also exemplifies DEI’s impact. It abolished racial and national quotas, enabling the immigration of more diverse populations, including from Asia, Africa, southern and eastern ...

The Conversation asked Nicole Hassoun, a professor at Binghamton University and executive director of Global Health Impact, to explain the pandemic accord, its prospects for advancing global health, ...

The most fundamental job of Congress is to fund the government each year, typically through a bipartisan process that ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Connie Walker discusses her favorite podcast tools, the ‘radical transformation’ of how ...

From 2014 to 2019, many of the demolitions were funded by the federal government’s Hardest Hit Fund. The goals of the fund are to help reduce homeowner foreclosures and stabilize neighborhoods. This ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) But even though it’s Congress’ job to pass a budget and set tax policy, most media ...

In the 1950s and 1960s, housing and urban inequality were at the center of national politics. American cities were grappling with rapid urban decline, segregated and substandard housing, and the ...

Every two-word combination must be unique. Called binomial nomenclature, this naming system was popularized by Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the 1700s. So, humans are Homo sapiens, the red maple ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Colin Zarzycki, Penn State (THE CONVERSATION) U.S. forecasters are expecting an ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Danielle K. Brown, Michigan State University (THE CONVERSATION) On the evening of May ...