Month: May 2025
Best practices for third-party data acquisition: powering AI context
The proliferation of GenAI tools continues to compel us to critically reassess how we gauge success in the modern digital age. Like other transformative ...
A new look for what’s next
In line with the other work we’re doing, we’re embarking on a rebrand process—here’s why. When Stack Overflow (and later, Stack Exchange) started, its ...
Moving beyond velocity: Measuring real business impact
May 8, 2025 How can engineering teams move beyond traditional metrics like velocity to create real business impact? In this episode of Leaders of ...
A new light on neural connections
In the 1660s, with the help of a simple, homemade light microscope that magnified samples more than 250 times, a Dutch fabric merchant named ...
New discovery shows how molecules can mute heat like music
Imagine you are playing the guitar — each pluck of a string creates a sound wave that vibrates and interacts with other waves. Now ...
Groundbreaking device instantly detects dangerous street drugs, offering hope for harm reduction
A portable device that can instantly detect dangerous street drugs at extremely low concentrations has been developed at the University of Bath in the ...
Smart spongy device captures water from thin air
Engineers from Australia and China have invented a sponge-like device that captures water from thin air and then releases it in a cup using ...
Smart lactation pads can monitor safety of breast milk in real time
Scientists at the University of Southern California (USC) have developed a lactation pad equipped with sensing technology that allows parents of newborns to monitor ...
Vapor-deposited perovskite semiconductors power next generation circuits
A research team led by Professor Yong-Young Noh and Dr. Youjin Reo from the Department of Chemical Engineering at POSTECH (Pohang University of Science ...
Ultra-thin bismuth holds unexpected promise for green electronics
Electronic devices rely on materials whose electrical properties change with temperature, making them less stable in extreme conditions. A discovery by McGill University researchers ...
