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In 1612, Galileo was shocked as to why Saturn’s “appendages” had disappeared. It wasn’t until later that century that the mystery was solved: Saturn has rings, and when Earth crosses […]
Nikola Tesla was a rare genius who never received the recognition he deserved while alive. (He was overshadowed by his former boss and rival Thomas Edison). Tesla gave us neon […]
Autonomous vehicles and humanoid robotics are not the crowning achievements of our age. These are the warm up acts.
The disruptive demographics of an aging society offers a growth opportunity for the senior housing industry. However, technology is also presenting new ways to enable older adults to stay in […]
Editor’s Note: This article was provided by our partner, RealClearScience. The original is here. IN 1939, INTREPID engineers at the fledgling British Interplanetary Society proposed a daring mission into outer […]
This could be a photograph snapped during a family vacation to the Grand Canyon. These are the tire-tracks of the car-sized Mars rover Curiosity. NASA reports that the future Pixar […]
“I make hands,” the young man said nonchalantly. Standing in the middle of a crowd of robotics researchers and developers, he introduced himself. I must admit the phrase and the […]
Google’s recent purchase of the defense contractor Boston Dynamics has raised eyebrows, and also brought the inevitable – if overblown – comparisons between Google and Skynet.
The lunar landing represents a significant milestone for China’s space program. China sent its first astronaut to space in 2003.
The 2011 Tōhoku, Japan, earthquake and tsunami killed thousands of people and damaged more than one million buildings, including the Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Plant. The initial crisis of rebuilding […]
The future of sex is here, or at least it could be, technically speaking.
If you post something that others read, you should get paid. If you’re spied on, you should get paid. Conversely, if you access the work of others, you should pay.
This drone, which weighs just 20 grams, can avoid obstacles without human guidance.
A human-sounding telemarketer says she is real. Can you tell from this recording?
Instead of predicting what a human might do, this computer is incredibly fast at recognizing what a human is doing.
Hamilton Nolan, a Gawker writer I greatly respect but who I’ve disagreed with before, has a new post up regarding using Tweets publicly. I here want to respond to one […]
While this robot may provide security, some experts also fear its monitoring capabilities will further erode personal privacy.
Scientists put an interactive robot in an enclosure inhabited by 16 chimpanzees. Their reactions were surprisingly similar to those of humans, opening up potential new ways to observe them without humans being present.
This “autonomous pack horse” is designed to interact with troops in a “natural way” like a trained animal would.
Over 270 robotics researchers have signed on to a proposed ban on weapons systems that can fire “without a human in the loop.”
Dear Strange Maps, This really is the strangest, or perhaps most curious, map I’ve ever seen: Spam is almost as smart as chimpanzees these days. It gets harder and harder […]
Political and economic changes have a way of getting into people’s heads. Once-new tools come to feel as natural as the hands that pick them up; once-new rules, ingrained in […]
The extent to which human beings are willing to be duped by computers is already very large.
As the population of cities continues to grow, real estate runs out fast. But one innovative solution may be the wave of the future: building down! “It is not the beauty […]
Google is looking to build an artificial brain, a fact that “some may consider thrilling and others deeply unsettling. Or both.”
An MIT scientist has succeeded in creating mini-cubes that have no external parts yet are able to move and assemble themselves into larger shapes. Possible applications include repairing damaged buildings and exploring dangerous terrain.
The AI company Vicarious has created an algorithm that can solve CAPTCHA “with greater than 90% accuracy.”
We all feel bad for Pluto, but it had its demotion coming. “I have announced this star as a comet, but since it is not accompanied by any nebulosity and, further, […]
China is a manufacturing powerhouse. However, the middle kingdom has a new manufacturing challenge – can it produce enough children to change a demographic destiny that may threaten its future […]