Civil Engineering

Hidden Chaos Found to Lurk in Ecosystems

Quanta Magazine: Physical scientists seem to find the phenomenon of chaos everywhere: in the orbits of planets, in weather systems, in a river’s swirling eddies. For nearly three decades, ecologists considered chaos in the living world to be surprisingly rare by…

Commercial image-generating AI raises all sorts of thorny legal issues

TechCrunch: This week, OpenAI granted users of its image-generating AI system, DALL-E 2, the right to use their generations for commercial projects, like illustrations for children’s books and art for newsletters. The move makes sense, given OpenAI’s own commercial aims…

How Florence Nightingale Changed Data Visualization Forever

Scientific American: In the summer of 1856 Florence Nightingale sailed home from war furious. As the nursing administrator of a sprawling British Army hospital network, she had witnessed thousands of sick soldiers endure agony in filthy wards. An entire fighting force…

The US military wants to understand the most important software on Earth

Technology Review: It’s not much of an exaggeration to say that the whole world is built on top of the Linux kernel—although most people have never heard of it. It…