The UK’s covid app made a serious difference during the winter surge
The news: Researchers in the UK have calculated that its contact tracing app may have…
A button that tells your boss you're unhappy: Why mental health wearables could be bad news at work
With gyms closed and millions cooped up and restless at home, it's little wonder that…
Why Denmark’s “corona passport” is more of a promise than a plan
When acting Danish finance minister Morten Bødskov announced last week that Denmark would soon launch…
India is betting on glitchy software to inoculate 300 million people by August
On January 28, a physician at a hospital in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad…
The fast-spreading coronavirus variant is turning up in US sewers
A hyper-transmissible form of the coronavirus that causes covid-19 has been found in US sewer…
These might be the best places for future Mars colonists to look for ice
If we ever start an extraterrestrial colony on Mars, we’ll need water for a host…
The UAE’s Hope probe is about to arrive at Mars in a historic first
Fewer than half of all the spacecraft that have been sent to Mars have actually…
Why aren’t kids getting vaccinated?
While much of the world is engaged in a frantic scramble to get vaccinated against…
How a Democrat plan to reform Section 230 could backfire
Over the last few years, Section 230 of the 1996 US Communications Decency Act has…
Predictive policing is still racist—whatever data it uses
It’s no secret that predictive policing tools are racially biased. A number of studies have…