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Brain-computer interfaces give scientists their closest look so far at what the human brain does while we’re asleep.

We can either be fearful of artificial intelligence, or embrace it as a tool to help us improve service.

The first wave of the retailer’s anticipated automated delivery fleet hits the sidewalks.

COVID-19 may strengthen the case for universal basic income, or an idea like it.

A NASA robot on Mars sends back unusual findings, including timed magnetic pulses.

A review of the multifaceted questions we’ll ask to determine whether robots have a felt quality of experience — an “inner feel.”

A robotic teddy bear could improve physical and emotional outcomes in pediatric patients.

We’ve got five great eBook bundles that can get you working in five of the hottest tech fields around, all at a fraction of their original price.

Correlation doesn’t equal causation — we all know this. Well, except robots.

Increasingly sophisticated automation technology can save big money for banks by paring down the workforce.

Construction of the $500 billion dollar tech city-state of the future is moving ahead.

Job applicants now have to contend with the growing use of artificial intelligence in hiring decisions.

The pizza giant Domino’s partners with a Silicon Valley startup to start delivering pizza by robots.

Non-avian dinosaurs were thought terrestrially bound, but newly unearthed fossils suggest they conquered prehistoric waters, too.

Isolation and empathy are by no means mutually exclusive.

This MIT robot solves it faster than any human ever could. It’s a world record.

New computing theory allows artificial intelligences to store memories.

Being a specialist used to be the way forward, but the future belongs to people who can adapt to any given scenario on a dime.

For now, artificial intelligence is nothing to fear. But as it rapidly develops in the years ahead?

New research on ankle exoskeletons show promising results.

Is the pessimism about jobs totally unwarented?

Our clever human hands may soon be outdone.

They’re made from stretchy, electroactive polymer films.

Brain uploads and what matters for future human flourishing.

New software makes lab work go much faster—and hastens the search for cures.

The TESS satellite captures rare images of a cataclysmic event in a faraway galaxy.

These questions can help us think more critically about new developments in artificial intelligence.

Its emergence will challenge what it means to be human.

What if consciousness is just a blip in the universe, a momentary flowering of experience that is unique to life in early technological civilizations—but eventually vanishes?

What most people worry about when it comes to artificial intelligence likely comes from science-fiction fantasy.