In journalism’s future, AI isn’t all bad news
Artificial intelligence may be coming for all of us. But a recent study by Microsoft Corp. tried to shed light…
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Keep your shoes on? TSA policy change explained
A longstanding routine at airport security checkpoints is coming to an end. The Transportation Security Administration announced this week that…
Water Fellows chart course toward change and future careers
Connie Cox became interested in water because she grew up without it on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation. For Dominique…
How to keep kids safe from AI chatbots
Last year, a technology researcher connected with My AI, Snapchat’s chatbot companion, pretending to look for advice. The researcher said…
Students unearth stories from Central City’s former red-light district
For most college students, summer doesn’t involve hauling buckets of dirt under the blazing sun. But for a class in…
Engineering students get real skills, virtually
Faisal Kaweesa stands in a Metropolitan State University of Denver Mechanical Engineering Technology classroom, a pair of goggles obscuring his…
Internship propels student toward career in race-car design
When Marco Antonacci first met Daniel Spicher in a Bicycle Design and Fabrication course at Metropolitan State University of Denver,…
Why doomscrolling hooks us — and how to break free
Doomscrolling — chances are, you’ve done it. You open Instagram or TikTok, only to slip down a rabbit hole. Before…
Maya monuments speak in signs — and now we understand them
When Richard Sandoval, Ph.D., visited Copán, an ancient Maya archaeological site in western Honduras, he noticed something unusual about the…
From smallpox to polio: how vaccines changed the world
In the battlefield of human history, no enemy has claimed more lives than disease. Wars have reshaped borders and toppled…