Sociology

New Apps Aim to Douse the Social Media Dumpster Fire

Social media makes us miserable, but can “positive apps,” such as Gas and BeReal, make a difference?

Kenna Hughes-Castleberry

Energy

Government Researchers Aim for Better—And Cheaper—Batteries

Department of Energy researchers are partnering with battery manufacturers to help them find new ways to make cheap batteries that can store a lot of energy

John Fialka and E&E News

Energy

Scientists Fire Lasers at the Sky to Control Lightning

Laser beams could be used to deflect lightning strikes from vulnerable places such as airports and wind farms

Allison Parshall

Artificial Intelligence

What an Endless Conversation with Werner Herzog Can Teach Us about AI

An AI-generated conversation between Werner Herzog and Slavoj Žižek is definitely entertaining, but it also illustrates the crisis of misinformation beginning to befall us

Giacomo Miceli | Opinion

Artificial Intelligence

Research Summaries Written by AI Fool Scientists

Scientists cannot always differentiate between research abstracts generated by the AI ChatGPT and those written by humans

Holly Else and Nature magazine