Genetic mutations cause cancer. This idea has long driven strategies that aim to lower risk or determine when to look for early signs of disease. Don’t smoke. Minimize alcohol. Get vaccinated against ...

The inner workings of large AI systems remain largely opaque, raising significant safety and trust issues. Researchers have now developed a technique to extract and manipulate the internal concepts ...

Long before biomimicry had a name, humans were practicing it. We have always studied living things for clues about how to build, move, heal, and survive. Nature wasn’t a separate category from ...

Forecasts of the impact of artificial intelligence range from the apocalyptic to the utopian. An October 2025 report from Senate Democrats, for example, predicted AI will destroy millions of US jobs.

AI agents don’t go rogue. That’s something only humans do. Nevertheless, a New York Times article—representative of much news coverage of—described an OpenAI hacking as “AI bots going rogue and ...

For centuries, the humble scientific paper has been the way researchers share discoveries. These papers are highly formulaic. Each starts with an introduction laying out the problem, followed by ...

Orbital data centers and factories will need a lot of energy. A Florida startup hopes to deliver it with lasers. Ambitious plans for orbital data centers and factories face a major problem—getting ...

"Hyundai Motor Group is building a new US factory with the capacity to churn out 30,000 robots every year, and it plans to put 25,000 Atlas units to work. According to Boston Dynamics, the partnership ...

Brain scans contain clues about what someone is looking at, but turning those signals back into recognizable images is difficult. Now, researchers in Israel have built an AI system that recreates what ...

The Milky Way Was Rewired by a Cataclysmic Collision Billions of Years Ago. Now It Is on Course for Another. An ‘AI Legal Team’ Has Won Its First Case. It’s a Rare Victory for Access to Justice. Long ...

The unassuming vial of eye drops could easily belong on a pharmacy shelf. But swirling inside are microscopic bits of photosynthetic machinery made from plants. Within minutes of giving the drops to ...

The tiny chips hitch a ride on immune cells to target inflammation in the brain. Scientists hope to kick off clinical trials within three years. From restoring movement and speech in people with ...