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

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.

Tasty Interface The new device offers a neater solution. Dubbed e-Taste, it has two main components: a sensing platform to analyze the taste profile of a food or drink and an actuator to deliver a ...

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; ...

Eight years ago a machine learning algorithm learned to identify a cat —and it stunned the world. A few years later AI could accurately translate languages and take down world champion Go players. Now ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nicholas is a senior lecturer in evolutionary biology and paleontology at the University of Bath. He is interested in how and why the world is the way it is and studies dinosaurs, among other ...

To keep the infants happy, engaged, and safe, parents brought favorite blankets and pacifiers, and younger infants were wrapped inside a comfortable vacuum pillow to reduce movement. A video system ...

Did the Early Cosmos Inflate Like a Balloon? A Mirror Universe Going Backwards in Time May Be a Simpler Explanation ...

Quantum sensors promise precision far beyond anything possible using classical technology. Australian startup Q-CTRL has put the devices to work in a GPS backup that’s 50 times better than the current ...

A human can’t survive in the Mariana Trench without protection. At its deepest, the trench plunges 35,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean to a region reigned by crushing pressure and ...