Science & Environment

[ad_1] It was spring in Queensland, Australia, a season when many wild animals find themselves in trouble, and the Currumbin Wildlife Hospital was a blur of fur and feathers. A groggy black swan emerged from the X-ray room, head swaying on its long neck. A flying fox wore a tiny …

[ad_1] Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) recently revealed a startling new privacy threat. Our smartphones’ ambient light sensors might be turned into makeshift cameras. A woman on her iPhone  (Kurt “CyberGuy” Knutsson) From brightness adjustment to privacy invasion Ambient light sensors are commonplace in smartphones, …

[ad_1] Jan Dell is a former chemical engineer who has spent years telling an inconvenient truth about plastics. “So many people, they see the recyclable label, and they put it in the recycle bin,” she said. “But the vast majority of plastics are not recycled.” About 48 million tons of …

[ad_1] Have you ever been in a situation where you’re cruising down the road, enjoying a smooth ride, when suddenly — wham — you hit a pothole?  It jolts your car and reminds you of the never-ending battle against these road menaces. Well, that scenario could be over very soon.  …

[ad_1] Heat pumps, which both warm and cool buildings and are powered by electricity, have been touted as the answer to curbing greenhouse gas emissions produced by homes, businesses and office buildings, which are responsible for about one-third of the emissions in New York State. But how do they work? …

[ad_1] For tens of millions of years, Australia has been a playground for evolution, and the land Down Under lays claim to some of the most remarkable creatures on Earth. It is the birthplace of songbirds, the land of egg-laying mammals and the world capital of pouch-bearing marsupials, a group …

[ad_1] Dr. Cameron Clifford, a dentist in Edmond, Okla., said his son Cal, 9, has been infatuated with octopuses since he was 3 years old. “Every birthday, every Christmas, every holiday, he would always say: ‘All I want is an octopus,’” Dr. Clifford said. For a while, the family nurtured …

[ad_1] As if scammers couldn’t sink any lower, there’s a new online scam taking advantage of grieving people.  It’s a strange pirate scam that uses artificial intelligence to scrape data to build fake obituary websites, exploiting the information of somebody who is deceased in an attempt to scam vulnerable victims. …

[ad_1] NEW YORK, NY – NOVEMBER 15:  Dennis Quaid attends the “The Art Of More” Season 2 Premiere  at Museum Of Arts And Design on November 15, 2016 in New York City.  (Photo by Brad Barket/Getty Images) (Brad Barket/Getty Images) Welcome to Fox News’ Artificial Intelligence newsletter with the latest …

[ad_1] You just knew this was coming. No doubt, you’ve heard about the staffing shortages in factories. And guess what? The solution seems to be robots. At Mercedes-Benz Manufacturing in Hungary, they’ve swapped out some of their human workers for humanoid robots right there on the factory floor. These futuristic …