As if beauty pageants weren’t controversial enough, Miss England is introducing a new “AI stage” where contestants compete by sending a digital clone of themselves. Basically, a lifelike AI avatar ...

AI-generated image. When you chat with ChatGPT, it often feels like you’re talking to someone polite, engaged and responsive.

Honeybees, too, are under AI’s lens. Their intricate waggle dances – figure-of-eight movements that indicate food sources – are being decoded in real time with computer vision. These models highlight ...

Most of these devices rely on printed circuit boards (PCBs) made of copper, fiberglass, and epoxy resin. These are the flat, usually green board inside your gadgets that holds all the tiny electronic ...

Norman descendants are still doing very fine in today's Britain.

France may have offered the most dramatic case, but the study shows that the entire European continent was repeatedly rattled by climate-driven unrest. Between 1570 and 1860, researchers identified ...

Cocaine is known to ramp up the body. It typically causes a racing heart, heightened alertness, and, in high doses, dangerous arrhythmias. But when the Chihuahua was hooked up to an electrocardiogram ...

Government agencies are contracting with Palantir to correlate disparate pieces of data, promising efficiency but raising civil liberties concerns.

Maps are a form of storytelling, as well as an information source. Even the lines, colours, symbols and size of regions ...

In the late 1980s, when Switzerland was just beginning to experiment with solar power, engineers bolted a few shiny panels onto rooftops, mountain stations, and even utility-scale farms. They probably ...

China has a habit of building its solar behemoths in remote western deserts. Last year, the country flipped the switch on what is still the world’s largest solar farm (for now): a 3.5-gigawatt ...

On a summer afternoon high above the Swiss Alps, Raphaël Domjan stared out at a commercial airliner flying below him. At 9,500 meters (31,000 feet), Domjan was alone in a featherlight aircraft powered ...