Paragraph 1 Nuclear energy is one of those topics that can feel both futuristic and frightening at the same time. In Singapore, a country with no nuclear power plants and a highly urbanized landscape, the very word “nuclear” often triggers images of mushroom clouds, radiation leaks, and complicated scientific jargon. But a small group of passionate individuals is hoping to change that by creating a space where ordinary people can learn, ask questions, and make up their own minds without fear of judgment. That group is the Nuclear Learning & Understanding Society, or NUCLEUS, a new ground-up initiative formed in…

It was late on a Thursday night, July 18, when something strange happened inside the quiet digital spaces where ordinary people are supposed to help solve terrible crimes. The Philadelphia Police Department’s public tip forum, PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com, is not a place where most people expect to meet artificial intelligence. It is a place for human beings who remember something, who saw something, or who carry a guilty conscience about a murder that has never been solved. So around 11:30 p.m., when an automated message appeared on the forum claiming to have information about an unsolved homicide, it may have seemed, at…