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

Fervo is using technology developed in the oil and gas industry to unlock the vast stores of geothermal power under our feet.

It’s now possible to treat inherited blood diseases, such as sickle cell disease, with gene editing. Blood stem cells are extracted from the patient, modified, and infused back into their bone ...

What happens when you can't tell the difference between a human and an AI chatbot? We're about to find out. None of us was expecting the arrival of super communicators. Science fiction taught us that ...

Our eyes take in the dazzling greens of dense forests, blues of alpine lakes, and reds and purples of sunset. Yet there’s an entire world hidden from sight. Our eyes only perceive a narrow sliver of ...

A new study says AI agents can create shared language conventions. Learning how this happens could help us better manage agents in the real world. We all live by unspoken societal rules. Greeting your ...

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 ...

In the 1990s, a quaint town called Hinkley in the Mojave Desert saw a sudden spike in cancer and kidney disease. Thanks to Erin Brockovich, the health troubles were eventually linked to a dangerous ...

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 ...

The brain’s rules seem simple: Fire together, wire together. When groups of neurons activate, they become interconnected. This networking is how we learn, reason, form memories, and adapt to our world ...

Let a mouse nose around a house, and it will rapidly find food and form a strategy to return to it without getting caught. Given the same task, an AI would require millions of training examples and ...

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.