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 ...

We often think of proteins as immutable 3D sculptures. That’s not quite right. Many proteins are transformers that twist and change their shapes depending on biological needs. One configuration may ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The AI systems that people use today are considered narrow AI or “weak” AI.A system might be skilled in one domain—chess, perhaps—but if thrown into a game of checkers, the same AI would have no idea ...

Softening Up. Prosthetic hands have come a long way.One of the first, crafted out of metal in the Middle Ages, had joints that could be moved passively using another hand.. Today, soft robotics have ...

One study sketched a landscape of living creatures in the deep ocean using an approach called metagenomics. Here, scientists sequenced genetic material from all microbes within an environment, ...

We don’t think twice about using our hands throughout the day for tasks that still thwart sophisticated robots—pouring coffee without spilling when half-awake, folding laundry without ripping delicate ...