The number of scientific papers that rely on AI has quadrupled, and the scope of problems AI can tackle is expanding by the ...

New estimates suggest it might be 20 times easier to crack cryptography with quantum computers than we thought. But don't ...

A giggling toddler in a pink dress and matching headphones lies down on her back in front of a gigantic whirling machine. A pillowy headrest cushions her head. She seems unfazed as she’s slowly ...

A paralyzed woman can again communicate with the outside world thanks to a wafer-thin disk capturing speech signals in her brain. An AI translates these electrical buzzes into text and, using ...

Scientists just unveiled the world’s tiniest pacemaker. Smaller than a grain of rice and controlled by light shone through the skin, the pacemaker generates power and squeezes the heart’s muscles ...

My nephew couldn’t stop playing Minecraft when he was seven years old.. One of the most popular games ever, Minecraft is an open world in which players build terrain and craft various items and tools.

Our bodies are constantly breaking down. Over time, their built-in repair mechanisms also fail. Knee cartilage grinds away. Hip joints no longer support weight. Treatments for breast cancer and other ...

Jevin West is a professor and the associate dean for research in the Information School at the University of Washington. He is the co-founder and the inaugural director of the Center for an Informed ...

The first time I heard about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, I thought it was a bad joke.. My incredulity soon turned to horror when I realized it’s real. The garbage patch, also known as the Pacific ...

Beyond the initial seeds—the party plan and the crush—the rest emerged of its own accord. "The social behaviors of spreading the word, decorating, asking each other out, arriving at the party, and ...

Picture this: the setting sun paints a cornfield in dazzling hues of amber and gold. Thousands of corn stalks, heavy with cobs and rustling leaves, tower over everyone—kids running though corn mazes; ...

With their bright blue bases, yellow gears, and exposed circuit tops, the 3D-printed robots look like a child’s toys. Yet as a roughly two-dozen-member collective, they can flow around obstacles ...