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Progress in autonomous vehicles and digital assistants shows that today’s machines can perform certain human tasks with remarkable accuracy. But they lack versatility and only work within limited domains for which large sets of training data are available. Transfer of knowledge, common sense, and an understanding of causality are open problems.…

Nominated by: Catherine Fletcher, Science Creates Ventures Presented by: Neil Morris

In a project funded by the Federal Foreign Office, our students designed a collection of board games. Each game transforms a different aspect of politics into a board game. All board games are available as Print-and-Play PDF versions, all source files are available under a Creative Commons license, for easy…

How Evolutionary Biology Explains Creativity How many of our friends on Facebook or X are actually posting their own texts and ideas rather than quoting someone else’s? But more importantly, what if we stopped innovating in the real world, becoming more followers than leaders, copiers rather than innovators? Mark Pagel…

Our project is cultivating a STEM Workforce, by equipping Educators in under-represented communities with project-based learning tools, STEM resources, and refining Educator’s instructional pedagogy where students are allowed to solve ill-defined problems, make real-world connections while deepening their content knowledge and preparing them for STEM careers and future-focused options across…

Two corotating vortices, joined together by a slender vortical bridge, drift through an enormous aquarium. Shining through the water’s surface, an expanded laser beam transforms the vortex pair into a moving lens that upwardly projects two black holes encircled by shimmering halos. Vortices may collide with one another (as in…

Through an installation/performance the artist Maja Smrekar reflects on the social dimension of Artificial Intelligence, questioning the power relations in terms of technological development and data sovereignty, and how these affect the relations between human and animals. “Technologies such as AI need a social dimension and not only the economy,…

The nominating institution University of Ulm on the breakthrough: NMR is of major importance in biology, chemistry, medicine, and physics, as it gives access to molecular structure and revolutionised medical imaging. But the poor sensitivity of current NMR technology prevents its application to single proteins or the imaging of cellular…

MDC has excellent structural stability and high catalyst activity.Comparing to conventional ozonation process, MDC/HCO process was 30% more effective for organic removal and 50% less energy intensive.   Tags: Engineering, Environment & Nature, Advanced water and wastewater treatment.

Sunil Amrith is the Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History at Yale University, He is the author of four books, including Unruly Waters (2018) and Crossing the Bay of Bengal (2013). His work connects environmental history with the history of migration, with a focus on South Asia, Southeast Asia,…