Feature image for "Building Blocks" from Explore magazine's Fall 2021 issue
The earliest known use of concrete is a floor that dates back to Galilee, circa 7000 BCE, still sound when...
temperature sensor model
The internet of things could make the office sweater obsolete
Collage of a starry sky, overlayed with white, transluscent musical notes and thin green airwaves spanning the entire image.
How do you capture the sound of the stars? That was the challenge placed before composer Tina Tallon — for the score...
Hero image for Explore Summer '21 feature story, "Trusting Tech"
When you can’t trust your own eyes and ears to detect deepfakes, who can you trust? Perhaps, a machine. University of Florida researcher Damon Woodard is using artificial intelligence methods to develop algorithms that can detect deepfakes — images, text, video and audio that purports to be real but isn’t. These algorithms, Woodard says, are better at detecting deepfakes than humans.
Feature image for VR and Autism story from the Spring 2023 issue of Explore magazine.
In a small private school in Jacksonville, a teenager put on a virtual-reality headsetfor the first time. Immersed in another...