Science & Technology

MEDIA, Pa. — Penn State Brandywine Assistant Teaching Professor of Biology Camille Gaynus is spreading the word about Black in Marine Science Week, which takes place Nov. 27-Dec. 3. BIMS Week highlights Black marine scientists across the globe. As a Black marine scientist, Gaynus wants to show people everywhere that Black people can be scientists. […]

(from left) Kevin Dedner founded Hurdle, a mental health startup that pairs patients with therapists. Ashlee Wisdom’s company, Health in Her Hue, connects women of color with culturally sensitive medical providers. Nathan Pelzer’s Clinify Health analyzes data to help doctors identify at-risk patients in underserved areas. Erica Plybeah’s firm, MedHaul, arranges transport to medical appointments. […]

A New Jersey man who was wrongly jailed after being misidentified through facial recognition software has a message for two Ontario police agencies now using the same technology. “There’s clear evidence that it doesn’t work,” Nijeer Parks said. Parks, now 36, spent 10 days behind bars for a January 2019 theft and assault on a […]

Those of us building these systems will choose which subreddits and online sources to crawl, which languages to use or ignore, which data sets to remove or accept. Most important, we choose who we apply these algorithms to, and which objectives we optimize for. We choose the labels we create, the data we take in, […]

Have you ever felt so convinced you were right about something, that the thought of anyone challenging your belief could only mean they didn’t know as much as you did? If you have, you’re not alone. Here’s why, you may dig in your heels during heated debates, according to a new study published Wednesday in […]

In one way or another, Thomas Gooch has spent more than 30 years struggling with illegal drugs. The 52-year-old Nashville, Tenn., native grew up in extreme poverty. He was first incarcerated in 1988 and spent the next 15 years in and out of jail for using and selling narcotics. “Until 2003,” Gooch says. “That was […]

Ninety-three percent of U.S. national park visitors identified themselves as white in a 2022 National Park Service survey. Yet about 44 percent of Americans identify as non-white. Black people, for example, accounted for one percent of park visitors in the survey even though they make up 14 percent of the U.S. population. This disparity extends […]

Paul Wilkinson Photography Prof Chris Jackson, from Alvaston, Derby, said the lecture was a “fantastic opportunity” A professor who will be the first black person to host a lecture series in 200 years said science “historically has been racist” but “times are changing”. Prof Chris Jackson will deliver a Royal Institution (RI) Christmas lecture this […]

Table of Contents Ask the Chatbot a Question Ask the Chatbot a Question scientific racism, set of falsified scientific or pseudoscientific hypotheses that seeks to explain and justify European colonial dominance, particularly in the 17th through early 20th century. Proponents of scientific racism believe that races—variable, socially constructed groupings of people based on certain phenotypical […]

Facial recognition technology has progressed to point where it now interprets emotions in facial expressions. This type of analysis is increasingly used in daily life. For example, companies can use facial recognition software to help with hiring decisions. Other programs scan the faces in crowds to identify threats to public safety. Unfortunately, this technology struggles […]