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Humanoid robots are supposed to be our loyal assistants, but we saw another side to them the other day. Chinese

Air travel produces around 2.5 percent of all global CO2 emissions, and despite decades of effort in developing alternative fuels

It’s barely been two years since OpenAI’s ChatGPT was released for public use, inviting anyone on the internet to collaborate

French scientists on Tuesday announced that they had reached a “crucial milestone” in the long road towards nuclear fusion by

Researchers at Microsoft have announced the creation of the first “topological qubits” in a device that stores information in an

OpenAI’s ‘deep research‘ is the latest artificial intelligence (AI) tool making waves and promising to do in minutes what would

Most major biological molecules, including all proteins, DNA and RNA, point in one direction or another. In other words, they

From the Bronze age to the Industrial Revolution and beyond, the discovery and development of new materials has been a

Synthesizing new proteins – the building blocks of biological life – is a scientific field of immense potential, and a

On Wednesday night US time, a passenger jet and US Army helicopter collided at a low altitude near Ronald Reagan

Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepSeek has sent shockwaves through the tech community, with the release of extremely efficient AI

Roblox isn’t just another video game – it’s a massive virtual universe where nearly 90 million people from around the

Scientists at Cornell University have created mini virtual reality headsets for mice. These MouseGoggles aren’t just to help the critters

Conversational artificial intelligence (AI) tools may soon “covertly influence” users’ decision making in a new commercial frontier called the “intention

There’s a light that never goes out… well, almost never. Since the invention of commercial light bulbs in the late

I’m a computer scientist and a bad Christmas shopper. Over the weekend, I wondered whether AI systems might be able

In spite of the advances made towards making quantum computers practical, qubit-based systems remain unstable and highly vulnerable to errors,

Nobody knows what sleeping mushrooms dream of when their vast mycelial networks flicker and pulse with electrochemical responses akin to

As efficient as electronic data storage systems can be, they’ve got nothing on nature’s own version – DNA. A new

Meeting the world’s data storage demands is costly, in terms of money, energy, and environmental impact – but a new

If you’ve ever seen yourself through a thermal imaging camera, you’ll know that your body produces lots of heat. This

Last week, the tragic news broke that US teenager Sewell Seltzer III took his own life after forming a deep

Editor’s note – In 2022, as generative AI began to take the world by storm, a very creepy phenomenon started

Say hello to ionocaloric cooling. It’s a new way to lower temperatures with the potential to replace existing methods of

Despite huge advances in cyber security, one weakness continues to overshadow all others: human error. Research has consistently shown human

Google on Monday signed a deal to get electricity from small nuclear reactors to help power artificial intelligence. The agreement

The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) has brought both benefits and risk. One concerning trend is the misuse of

Imagine three people huddled in a circle so when one speaks, only one other hears. Scientists have created a device

The 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry recognized Demis Hassabis, John Jumper and David Baker for using machine learning to tackle

If your jaw dropped as you watched the latest AI-generated video, your bank balance was saved from criminals by a

In the arms race over sportswear technology, an advanced form of footwear has recently disrupted the racing scene, giving short

Japan already has one of the fastest supercomputers in the world with its Fugaku rig, but the country’s scientists are

Long after Earth’s oceans have vaporized and all its plant and animal life has turned to dust under the Sun’s

When it comes to our experience of the internet, “the times, they are a-changin’“, as Bob Dylan would say. You

For billions of years, life has used long molecules of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, to store information and solve problems.

Apple on Thursday got a green light from US regulators to add a feature that would let upcoming AirPods Pro

Artificial intelligence engines powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) are becoming an increasingly accessible way of getting answers and advice,

Chronic blood shortages are driving a search for a universal blood system that would allow doctors to save more lives.

A newly developed transistor device has shown exceptional levels of resilience in tests, performing so well, in fact, that it