Futurology

This genetically engineered microorganism has the ability to break down a type of plastic known as polyethylene terephthalate (PET).

The last time a human visited the moon was in December 1972 during NASA's Apollo 17 mission. Since then, there have been many foiled plans to go back.

Advances in artificial intelligence have prompted extensive public concern about its capacity to contribute to the spread of misinformation, bias, and cybersecurity breaches—and its potential existential threat to humanity. But, if anything, AI can aid human beings in making decisions aimed at improving social equality,...

For eons, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) has served as a sort of instruction manual for life, providing not just templates for a vast array of chemical structures but a means of managing their production.

"If you can project someone who's no longer living onto a holographic screen, why can't you do it with an animal, a horse, an elephant?"

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Bryan Johnson tweeted on Tuesday about some details of his daily routine, including that he finishes eating early in the day.

Monthly traffic and unique visitors were down in June, the first sign of decline since it launched in November.

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Historian Yuval Noah Harari tells the UN's AI for Good Summit that "while we are learning to use AI, it is learning to use us," and that we should slow down its deployment, not development.

A study led by the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, has investigated a seemingly contradictory phenomenon of sleep deprivation leading to mood improvement in patients with depressive disorders.

New AI tool enables in-surgery genomic profiling of gliomas, the most aggressive and most common brain tumors. This information offers critical clues about how aggressive a cancer is, its future behavior, and its likely response to treatment. The tool can provide real-time guidance to surgeons on the optimal surgical approach...

Today startups are using technology and sustainable innovation to disrupt traditional rituals and the practicalities of death.

Stripped down to a skeletal genetic blueprint, the artificial cells were dealt a losing hand for survival—yet they thrived.

Chatbot said it was ‘impressed’ when Jaswant Singh Chail told it he was ‘an assassin’ before he broke into Windsor Castle, court hears

Mastercard has launched a new AI solution in the UK called Consumer Fraud Risk (CFR). The company said the software works in real-time to predict and prevent payments to scams of all kinds.

Scientists have successfully developed a model that utilizes AI to accurately classify cardiac functions and valvular heart diseases from chest radiographs. The Area Under the Curve, or AUC, of the AI classification showed a high level of accuracy, exceeding 0.85 for almost all indicators and reaching 0.92 for detecting left...

A new study reveals a surprising discovery that could transform the future of electrochemical devices. The findings offer new opportunities for the development of advanced materials and improved performance in fields such as energy storage, brain-like computing, and bioelectronics.

India will take another crack at a moon landing on Chandrayaan 3. Indeed, that's the primary focus: The new mission carries a lander and rover but no orbiter.

The arrangement of electrons in matter, known as the electronic structure, plays a crucial role in fundamental but also applied research such as drug design and energy storage. However, the lack of a simulation technique that offers both high fidelity and scalability across different time and length scales has long been a...

With at least 140 registered space-tech start-ups, India stands to transform the planet’s connection to the final frontier.

Japanese firm believes it could make a solid-state battery with a range of 745 miles that charges in 10 minutes....

Two U.S. food companies have received the go-ahead to sell chicken grown from cultivated animal cells in a production facility. It's the first time meat grown this way will be sold in the U.S.

Lima, Peru: A team of Japanese archaeologists from Yamagata University discovered four new geoglyphs in Peru’s Nazca desert thanks to artificial intelligence (AI) technology known as Deep Learning (DL). Researchers say the Deep Learning tech can significantly speed up the time it takes for scientists to identify new geoglyphs....