Curious Kids[1] is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. [2]. How do atoms form? – Joshua, age 7, Shoreview, Minnesota Richard Feynman[3], a famous theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize, said that[4] if he could pass on only one
... How artificial intelligence controls your health insurance coverage
Over the past decade, health insurance companies have increasingly embraced the use of artificial intelligence algorithms[1]. Unlike doctors and hospitals, which use AI to help diagnose and treat patients, health insurers use these algorithms to decide whether to pay[2] for health care treatments and services that are recommended by a given...
Light-powered reactions could make the chemical manufacturing industry more energy-efficient
Manufactured chemicals and materials are necessary for practically every aspect of daily life, from life-saving pharmaceuticals to plastics, fuels and fertilizers. Yet manufacturing these important chemicals comes at a steep energy cost.
Many of these industrial chemicals are derived primarily from fossil fuel-based materials[1]. These compounds are...
50 years after ‘Jaws,’ researchers have retired the man-eater myth and revealed more about sharks’ amazing biology
The first blockbuster movie[3] sent waves of panic and awe through audiences. “Jaws” – the tale of a killer great white shark that terrorizes a coastal...