As humans, we take time for granted. We’re born into an innate understanding of the passage of events because it’s essential to our survival. But AI suffers from no such...
There’s a reality TV competition show in the works that will feature a 2023 trip to the International Space Station as the grand prize, Deadline reports. The production company behind...
Working at the intersection of biology and computing may be the most exciting new spot for technologists at the moment. That’s the word from Daphne Koller, the founder and chief...
Hurricane Sally — one of a record number of storms that have formed so far in the Atlantic this year — is pummeling parts of the Gulf Coast. After intensifying...
Kazi Fazle Rabbi and Dr. Xiao Yan are researchers in the Energy Transport Research Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as well as this year's winners of the...
When did something like us first appear on the planet? It turns out there’s remarkably little agreement on this question. Fossils and DNA suggest people looking like us, anatomically modern...
Coronavirus in Context is a weekly newsletter where we bring you facts that matter about the COVID-19 pandemic and the technology trying to stop its spread. You can subscribe here. Hola pandemic pals,...
The number of Atlantic storms this year has been exceptional. So exceptional that the World Meteorological Organization is about to run out of names for these churning cyclones. During each...
A new AI system that predicts the health spans of mice could help develop life-extension interventions for humans, according to the tool’s inventors. The system analyzes established measures of frailty...
Every year, Nikon holds its Small World in Motion Photomicrography Competition and this year is no different. From small plankton and shapes forming on soap to hydra’s and tardigrades, there...
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