Luis Prada

2 days ago | vice.com | Luis Prada

Harvard’s Microrobotics Lab has developed a RoboBee, a miniature drone designed to mimic real insects like bees and flies. The Microrobotics Lab has been working on the Robobee for years, but it wasn’t until the team took some inspiration from the crane fly that the project finally started coming together, as the insect’s anatomy made it perfect for landing the tiny robot.

3 days ago | vice.com | Luis Prada

If you thought Nicholas Cage buying a T. rex skull, expediting his inevitable bankruptcy, was just a one-off example of rich people unwisely spending their money, it turns out that might actually be the norm. According to a new study in Palaeontologia Electronica, your favorite childhood dinosaur has become the plaything of the ultra-wealthy.

3 days ago | vice.com | Luis Prada

A new study reports that global warming and extra CO2 are basically turning our worldwide rice supply into a huge sponge for inorganic arsenic, which you might better know as the “king of poisons.”In the study, published in Lancet Planetary Health, researchers led by Donming Wang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences spent nearly a decade trudging through muddy rice paddies to figure out that climate change is supercharging the uptake of the carcinogen arsenic in rice plants.

3 days ago | vice.com | Luis Prada

Students love using AI. Teachers hate when students use AI. Yet, teachers love using AI to help grade papers, some of which were probably written by AI, at least in part. The New York Times covered the push and pull of AI in the educational world, where both teachers and students are using chatbots. But the whys and hows are up for debate. Teachers are feeding ChatGPT years of curriculum so it can spit out lesson plans while side-eyeing kids using Google Lens to solve algebra problems.

6 days ago | vice.com | Luis Prada

If you’re trying and trying and failing and failing to lose weight, it might not necessarily be your fault. Well, the fault lies in your body, within your fat cells, thus making it your fault, but not really. Here’s why. According to a study in Nature, fat cells have epigenetic memory, which is our experiences and our reactions to them that get buried deep within our genes and passed down through the generations. It sounds like pseudoscientific nonsense, but it’s not.