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This Teen Scientist Turned a $0.50 Bar of Soap Into a Cancer-Fighting Breakthrough and Became ‘America’s Top Young Scientist’

Heman's inspiration for his invention came from his childhood in Ethiopia, where he witnessed the dangers of prolonged sun exposure.

Japan Is Starting to Use Robots in 7-Eleven Shops to Compensate for the Massive Shortage of Workers

These robots are taking over repetitive jobs and reducing workload as Japan combats a worker crisis.

Researchers Turned WiFi into a Medical Tool That Reads Your Pulse With Near Perfect Accuracy

Forget health trackers, the Wi-Fi in your living room may soon monitor your heartbeat.

A Light-Based AI Can Generate Images Using Almost No Energy

The future of AI art might be powered by lasers instead of GPUs.

Your Next Therapist Could be a Video Game or a Wearable and It Might Actually Work

An inside look at a new wave of evidence-backed digital therapies.

NYC Man Was Jailed for Days Because of a Blurry CCTV Image and a Faulty AI Match

Flawed tech, false ID, and two days behind bars: how it happened anyway.

Researchers Transformed Sperm Cells into Tiny, Microbots That Could Deliver Drugs to Hard-to-Reach Places

Who had sperm bots on their bingo card for this year?

Scientists Reprogram Blood Cells to Prevent Alzheimer’s and Fight Aging In the Brain

In a promising new study, modified young immune cells improved brain performance in older mice.

3D-printed 'ghost guns' are surging in popularity and law enforcement is struggling to keep up

The use of 3D-printed guns in criminal and violent activities is likely to continue to increase. And governments and police will continue to have trouble regulating them.

Miss England Contestants Are Now Competing With AI Versions of Themselves

AI models are coming to the internet, whether you like it or not.

ChatGPT only talks in clichés. That’s a threat to human creativity

When you chat with ChatGPT, it often feels like you’re talking to someone polite, engaged and responsive. It nods in all the right places, mirrors your wording and seems eager to keep the exchange flowing. But is this really what human conversation sounds like? Our new study shows that while ChatGPT plausibly imitates dialogue, it […]

This 3D printed circuit board that dissolves in water could finally solve our E-waste problem

This study is putting forward an alternative to our notoriously hard to recycle circuit boards.

Inside Palantir: The Secretive Tech Company Helping the US Government Build a Massive Web of Surveillance

Government agencies are contracting with Palantir to correlate disparate pieces of data, promising efficiency but raising civil liberties concerns.

Old Solar Panels Built in the Early 1990s Are Still Going Strong After 30 Years at 80% Original Power — And That’s a Big Deal for Our Energy Future

Thirty years later, old-school solar panels are still delivering on their promise.

A Swiss Pilot Flew a Solar-Electric Aircraft to the Edge of the Stratosphere

A record-breaking flight offers a glimpse into the future of clean aviation

US Military Just Tested a Microwave Weapon That Instantly Zapped an Entire Swarm of Drones Out of the Sky

The U.S. military tests a powerful new defense against drone swarms.

AI Bots Were Made to Use a Stripped Down Social Network With No Curation Algorithms and They Still Formed Toxic Echo Chambers

Can social media make emotionless AI bots pursue a political ideology? The answer will shock you.

Are Cyborg Jellyfish the Next Step of Deep Ocean Exploration?

We still know very little about our oceans. Can jellyfish change that?

Chevy’s New Electric Truck Just Went 1,059 Miles on a Single Charge and Shattered the EV Range Record

No battery swaps, no software tweaks—yet the Silverado EV more than doubled its 493-mile range. How’s this possible?

You Can Now Buy a Humanoid Robot for Under $6,000 – Here’s What It Can Do

The Unitree R1 robot is versatile, with a human-like range of motion.

Brain Implant Translates Silent Inner Speech into Words, But Critics Raise Fears of Mind Reading Without Consent

To prevent authorized mind reading, the researchers had to devise a "password".

GPT-5 is, uhm, not what we expected. Has AI just plateaued?

The AI gold rush may be over.

This New Indoor Solar Cell Could Power the Entire Internet of Things Using Only the Light From Your Ceiling

Tiny devices could soon run entirely on indoor light

The US Navy Just Tested a Laser Weapon That Could Change Warfare Forever

The HELIOS system can instantly zap enemy drones with precision.

Illinois Just Became the First State to Ban AI From Acting as a Therapist

The law aims to keep mental health care in human hands — not algorithms

Scientists Created a 3D Printing Resin You Can Reuse Forever

The new resin can be reused indefinitely without losing strength or quality.

AI Designs Computer Chips We Can't Understand — But They Work Really Well

Can we trust systems we don’t fully understand?

Anthropic says it's "vaccinating" its AI with evil data to make it less evil

The Black Mirror episodes are writing themselves now.

Lab-Grown Beef Now Has Real Muscle Fibers and It’s One Step Closer to Burgers With No Slaughter

In lab dishes, beef now grows thicker, stronger—and much more like the real thing.

Solid-State Batteries Charge in 3 Minutes, Offer Nearly Double the Range, and Never Catch Fire. So Why Aren't They In Your Phones and Cars Yet?

Solid state are miles ahead lithium-ion, but several breakthroughs are still needed before mass adoption.

An AI Ran a Vending Machine. It Ended Just How You'd Think It Would, But Worse

For a few surreal weeks, the dystopian future ran inside a mini-fridge in San Francisco.

Nearly 3,000 People Tried a Four-Day Workweek With No Pay Cut and the Results Were Great

Largest study of its kind finds fewer workdays make for healthier, happier, more productive employees.

This Disturbing Phone Case Gets Sunburned Like Real Skin to Teach You a Lesson

The creepiest phone case ever made could maybe one day save your life.

AI Is Now Funny Enough to Make You Laugh. But Can It Ever Be Truly Humorous?

As people turn to AI for therapy and companionship, some say the models still need to learn the nuances of human humor.

Meta's New Bracelet Lets You Control Computers Directly

It's a completely new way to interact with computers.

Scientists Create a ‘Smart Sponge’ That Knows When to Heal and When to Fight Inflammation

This hydrogel could help millions of people lead a better life.

AI-designed autonomous underwater glider looks like a paper airplane and swims like a seal

An MIT-designed system lets AI evolve new shapes for ocean-exploring robots.

We’re Starting to Sound Like ChatGPT — And We Don’t Even Realize It

Are chatbots changing our vocabulary? There's increasing evidence this is the case.

Scientists 3D Printed Microscopic Elephants and Barcodes Inside Cells for the First Time

What happens when you 3D-print an elephant and a microlaser inside a living cell?

Europe’s First AI Fighter Jet Took Off Over the Baltic Sea and This Could Soon Change the Face of Warfare

The AI logged a million virtual flight hours in three days. No pilot could compete.

This Ancient Grain Could Power the Future of 3D-Printed Food

Sorghum bioink could be the next step towards printed food.

China Resurrected an Abandoned Soviet 'Sea Monster' That's Part Airplane, Part Hovercraft

The Soviet Union's wildest aircraft just got a second life in China.

Swarms of tiny robots could go up your nose, melt the mucus and clean your sinuses

The "search-and-destroy” microrobot system can chemically shred the resident bacterial biofilm.

Elephant Trunk-Like Arm Turns Ordinary Drones Into Powerful, All-Purpose Flying Robots

Drones equipped with this robotic trunk get a massive dexterity upgrade.

Front-Facing Brake Lights Are Surprisingly Effective At Preventing Crashes. Will Automakers Add Them Soon?

A new study suggests cars are missing a crucial safety visual signal.

Researchers just got a group of bacteria to produce Paracetamol from plastic

What if the empty water bottle in your recycling bin could one day relieve your headache?

Korean researchers used carbon nanotubes to build a motor that's five times lighter

Scientists just gave the electric motor a sci-fi upgrade.

AI Could Help You Build a Virus. OpenAI Knows It — and It’s Worried

We should prepare ourselves for a society where amateurs can create garage bioweapons.

Your Brain Could Reveal a Deadly Heart Risk. AI Is Learning to Read the Signs

By studying brain scans this AI model was able to differentiate between types of strokes with high accuracy.

The US just started selling lab-grown salmon

FDA-approved fish fillet now served at a Portland restaurant

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