New York City is covered in illegal scaffolding
Machine learning algorithms could help bring it down
Technology
A new technique to work out a corpse’s time of death
AI could make the work of pathologists more accurate
The challenges of steering a hypersonic plane
At five times the speed of sound, a craft flies through plasma, not air
What tennis reveals about AI’s impact on human behaviour
Since the introduction of Hawk-Eye, umpires have been biting their tongues
NASA’s PACE satellite will tackle the largest uncertainty in climate science
It will monitor tiny particles in Earth’s atmosphere and oceans
Many AI researchers think fakes will become undetectable
Both detection software and watermarks can be defeated
Common sense is not actually very common
Very few claims meet with universal agreement
2023 was the hottest year ever
And 2024 could be warmer still