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Not so long ago, we had better maps of Mars than of Antarctica. Now, Antarctica is the best-mapped continent in the world.

MIT researchers have designed a fleet of autonomous boats that offer high manoeuvrability and precise control.

The past 300,000 years occurs in the blink of a cosmic eye, but it’s meant everything to humanity. The history of humanity was anything but inevitable. Although the Universe created […]

Specific self-driving car systems are now being developed for urban and rural settings.

If we don’t push the frontiers of physics, we’ll never learn what lies beyond our current understanding. At a fundamental level, what is our Universe made of? This question has […]

Respected Oxford mathematician Roger Penrose sees swirls of radioactivity in a sky map as evidence that the Big Bang isn’t true. These “Hawking rings” suggest to him that the universe expands and collapses over and over.

Artificial intelligence threatens to take over our entire world. And that’s only the 2nd most scary aspect about this documentary shared by Elon Musk.

Binary stars and common envelope evolution illustrate messy but “tasty” science.

Future vacationing could be pretty different.

Instead of beating adversaries in games, we might learn more about intelligence if we tried to teach artificial agents to play together as we do: as paladins and elf rangers.

Sales of drones are clocking in around $200 million and doubling each year. Which means there’s a lot of testing to be done.

Hackers working for Russia have gained access to hundreds of U.S. electric utilities in 2017, according to new reports from federal officials.

Forget the speed of light or the electron’s charge. This is the physical constant that really matters. Why is our Universe the way it is, and not some other way? There […]

The tech giants seem to be all in on blockchain.

Famously unusual case studies that perplexed psychologists.

Scientists have been probing our solar system for extraterrestrial life.

Scientific discovery often happens when you least expect it. But no one could’ve expected this. Imagine that you’re a scientist, going out on a limb to design and build an experiment […]

Pleasure is not just about experiencing an enjoyable moment. It also involves anticipation – a connection between one’s present and future selves.

The Department of Justice has reached a settlement with Defense Distributed in a landmark decision that will enable the controversial organization to publish CAD files of firearms on its DEFCAD website.

It’s the dawn of a new age. AI, VR, and robotics are creating the future that science-fiction writers have dreamed about.

It’s tempting to think of the mind as a layer that sits on top of more primitive cognitive structures. We experience ourselves as conscious beings, after all, in a way […]

Technology has grown by leaps and bounds over the last few generations. In the early 1960s, computer mainframes the size of semi-truck trailers that used transistors were considered cutting-edge because […]

Thanks to the beauty (and rigor) of formal mathematics, coders can now create hack-proof technology.

What is the danger in creating something smarter than you? You can’t control it, and pretty soon it could control you.

At one point during the Neolithic era, the Y-chromosome in our species became far less diverse. Called the Neolithic bottleneck, the reason for it may have finally been revealed.

Can artificial intelligence rival the animal kingdom? We compare the intelligence of four animals to current A.I. capabilities.

Max Tegmark says we’re smart enough to make it. But are we wise enough?

Apple unveiled the new Apple Watch Series 4 and three new iPhones during their keynote event on Wednesday, and they are chock-full of goodies.

Newly released documents show how the FBI paid Best Buy Geek Squad employees to report customers who had child pornography on their computers, a relationship that might have violated customers’ Fourth Amendment rights.

Across the world, companies are experimenting with shorter workweeks — is it working?