How are climate satellites biased, and what can we do about it? In 2023 I had the opportunity to visit the European Space Agency's climate office, and speak to scientists about their work monitoring ...

Over the past decade, healthcare leaders have increasingly recognized the fact that cardiology has a major gender bias problem. Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women, yet it remains ...

The College Football Playoff selection committee is all over the place with its rankings. Week after week, it assembles the top 25 teams in college football, yet we're left with ambiguity, ...

This project made me feel a kind of kinship with Diogenes, although I was searching for the item described in the title rather than for an honest man. Figure 1 “Diogenes Looking for an Honest Man,” a ...

One of the joys of writing up the entries for the 2025 Component Abuse Challenge has come in finding all the different alternative uses for the humble transistor. This building block of all modern ...

The problem of biases has plagued AI chatbots ever since ChatGPT landed a few years ago, and changed the whole landscape of conversational assistants. Research has repeatedly uncovered how chatbot ...

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Justice AI GPT may be the world’s first large language model-agnostic AI framework to solve the bias problem. Rather than discouraging the usage of AI, technologist and decolonial social scientist ...

Solar energy is a crucial part of our clean energy future, but a new, highly efficient solar material has a hurdle that needs to be addressed. A recent study reveals how a microscopic weak spot can ...

Skim through the voting section of McGraw Hill’s civics textbook, and you’ll see images from Hillary Clinton’s and Elizabeth Warren’s campaigns (whilst any campaign photos of a certain recent victor ...