Tara DiMaio

Reporter, Technology and Mind & Behavior

Tara DiMaio is based in Los Angeles, CA, and covers Technology and Mind & Behavior for The Academic Times. Prior to that, Tara worked on the communications team at The Good Food Institute and was a news and lifestyle reporter for PETA. She published a series on alternative protein that now promotes a research program with over $8 million awarded in grants. Tara has a degree in environmental studies and marketing from The George Washington University.

This new technology can discover counterfeit electronic chips — and it costs almost nothing

By Tara DiMaio

Researchers at the University of Florida have invented a new way to detect recycled and counterfeit electronic parts that makes supply chains more secure, protects consumer safety and runs at almost zero cost.

This self-powered smart window saves energy and offers more privacy

By Tara DiMaio

Researchers have developed a fully self-powered smart window that can instantly change from transparent to hazy and last for days without being charged.

Scientists make progress toward automatic protein engineering

By Tara DiMaio

Scientists in Wisconsin have invented fully automated robots driven by artificial intelligence that search for millions of protein sequences, making the long process of protein engineering much faster.

This AI tool can make medical research more inclusive for women, older patients

By Tara DiMaio

A group of researchers at Stanford University has developed a way to make clinical trials more inclusive, using a program that combines artificial intelligence with real-world data.

Children in European travel destinations think tourism negatively impacts family life

By Tara DiMaio

Children who live in popular travel destinations in Europe view local residents as less powerful than tourists and see the tourism industry as having a negative impact on family life, new research shows.

Women are perceived differently from men — even when they're robots

By Tara DiMaio

Female bots are perceived to have more positive human qualities, such as warmth, experience and emotion, than male bots, and this greater humanness leads consumers to prefer female artificial intelligence, a new study has found.

LED light and this algae may be the key to making biofuel cheaper

By Tara DiMaio

Different colors and wavelengths of light increase the growth of a common type of microalgae, which could significantly lower the cost of producing biofuel and biodiesel on a large scale, researchers have found.

This metal foam filters ultra-small particles like N95 masks, and it's recyclable

By Tara DiMaio

Scientists have created a new metal foam only 10 times heavier than air that can filter out tiny particulates, including droplets and aerosols containing the coronavirus, and is just as breathable as filters in current N95 masks.

False memories are a problem in courtrooms. Now researchers have shown they can be reversed.

By Tara DiMaio

New research into human memory shows that it's possible to implant vivid false memories of autobiographical events and then reverse them without damaging a person's memory of true events.