Bolivia Plans to Mine the Salar de Uyuni for Lithium
The Salar de Uyuni, which belongs to the Altiplano of the high Andes, is a unique and important ecosystem. It’s also an enormous lithium reserve.
Robots That Communicate with Each Other
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are working on creating robots that communicate with each other, allowing them to collaborate on tasks.
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Speaker: Linguistic Isolation in the Modern World
Ayapaneco, an endangered Mexican language, sparked linguistic interest when the last two speakers of the language were not speaking to each other
Journey to the Center(pede) of the Earth
The deepest living centipede has been discovered in a Croatian cave.
How Synthetic Brains Can Advance Robotics
Why try to create synthetic brains? Given the anxieties around artificial intelligence, why risk it?
NASA Sets Its Sites on Europa
NASA has decided on the nature and scope of a mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa, scheduled in the 2020s.