Delayed air passengers, disgruntled phone customers and even hungry people craving a slice of pizza increasingly find their pleas to private companies being answered by artificial intelligence. Soon Canadians who need to reach out to the federal government could also find themselves talking to an employee who’s been helped by non-human assistants. Ottawa is working … Read more
Oxygen is being produced on the ocean floor — seemingly by ancient lumps of metal — according to a new study. That discovery is putting the scientists behind it at odds with the Canada-based mining company that funded them. “We were the worst critics of this paper for a long time,” Andrew Sweetman of the Scottish … Read more
NEW DELHI: A team of researchers led by physical chemist Rodney Ruoff at the Institute for Basic Science in South Korea has developed a groundbreaking technique to synthesize diamonds at normal atmospheric pressure, without needing a starter gem. This innovative method, published in the journal Nature, could revolutionize the way diamonds are produced in laboratories.Traditionally, … Read more
