Venezuela’s deadly earthquakes happened on a fault similar to the San Andreas, and the risks aren’t over yet – a geophysicist explains

After the first waves, called the P waves, you have the S wave – the shear waves – that are a little more intense. And after those you have the surface waves. The first P wave ...

What 20 million bans reveal about the strain on Wikipedia’s volunteers

Chatbots and AI-powered search engines have intensified Wikipedia’s significance, even as they siphon its readers by answering questions directly, with fewer people going to the source site itself.

The art of literary translation exposes the limits of AI

The speed and skill with which these AI-powered translation tools operate are certainly impressive. But there is an important frontier for translation technology, one that it might never be able to ...

From Norway to Wisconsin, children want to be social media influencers when they grow up

We found that social media also had a positive influence on some students. One student in a rural town said that online posts ...