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Virtual reality continues to blur the line between the physical and the digital, and it will change our lives forever.
Understanding “why” may be the key to unlocking an AI’s imagination.
Cars are no longer just a way to get from A to B.
This company uses thousands of mirrors, AI, and machine learning to unlock the power of the sun.
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South Korea is piloting a CCTV system it hopes will save lives.
The guilt-free air conditioning, called “cooling paper,” is made from recyclable paper and doesn’t use any electricity.
We eat 50 billion chickens every year. Is there a better way?
Scientists created the mineral lonsdaleite in a lab and tested its strength using sound waves — before it was obliterated.
The fully functional plant will serve to demo TerraPower’s nuclear tech.
If computers can beat us at chess, maybe they could beat us at math, too.
How one startup plans to use “death rays” for good instead of evil.
China has reached a new record for nuclear fusion at 120 million degrees Celsius.
Buildings don’t have to be permanent — modular construction can make them modifiable and relocatable.
Researchers were even able store and read a 767-kilobit full-color short movie file in the fabric.
Say hello to your new colleague, the Workplace Environment Architect.
A new agricultural revolution could forever change the planet.
These prices are too good to pass up on.
It uses radio waves to pinpoint items, even when they’re hidden from view.
A new method could make holograms for virtual reality, 3D printing, and more. You can even run it can run on a smartphone.
Measuring a person’s movements and poses, smart clothes could be used for athletic training, rehabilitation, or health-monitoring.
The EmDrive turns out to be the “um…” drive after all, as a new study dubs any previous encouraging EmDrive results “false positives.”
Researchers in Singapore invented a novel device that may help the island nation illuminate its growing underground infrastructure.
The bird demonstrates cutting-edge technology for devising self-folding nanoscale robots.
A physicist creates an AI algorithm that predicts natural events and may prove the simulation hypothesis.
Trained dogs can detect cancer and other diseases by smell. Could a device do the same?
Do they really need the human touch?
Robot developers adapt the behavior of worm “blobs”.
Inventions with revolutionary potential made by a mysterious aerospace engineer for the U.S. Navy come to light.
Introducing the Deep Space Food Challenge.