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Australian scientists accidentally engineer one of the world's most thermally stable materials. It doesn't expand even when heated by 1,400 °C

The composite material could prove particularly useful in aerospace where temperatures can spike wildly between space and atmospheric re-entry.

Scientists resurrect microscopic creatures that were frozen for 24,000 years in Siberia

The discovery could lead to new methods for cryopreserving human cells and organs.

Scientists achieve brain-to-brain communication between humans

Not exactly telepathy but darn close, that's for sure.

Microsoft releases simple "auto-complete for programmers" that uses mammoth AI

Your new personal assistant.

Scientists use genetically engineered viruses, algae proteins, and light to help a blind man regain vision

The future is here.

Faster, greener, cheaper: Your next home may be printed instead of built

Less carbon footprint. Less time. Less cost. Bring in the industrial-sized 3D printers.

Cone of light aims to cut pandemic fears by killing 99.9% of viruses with light

Far-UVC light could make sidewalks safer and plaza folks happy to gather again.

Scientists fix crucial flaw with solid-state batteries that could fully charge electric cars in 10 minutes

Solid state batteries could finally make electric vehicles truly competitive with conventional cars.

Eco-friendly geometry: smart pasta can halve packaging waste at no extra cost

Mathematics to the rescue!

Spanish companies team up to create the first paella-cooking robot

Maybe, uhm, robots aren't so bad after all.

Japanese metallic tail can help keep the elderly upright

It's a weird evolutionary thing that we'd build robotic tails.

Watch a 3D printer produce an entire boat

0 metal, 100% boat.

Monkey plays Pong with brain implant from Elon Musk's Neuralink

The monkey simply thought about moving its hands up or down and the paddle moved accordingly.

Seoul is replacing street lamps with smart poles that offer electricity and WiFi

You can access WiFI, charge your electric car and even your drone from these poles.

Researchers develop underwater WiFi

The internet of things is going deep -- deep underwater, that is.

Artificial Intelligence can debate and it's pretty good at it (but not as good as the best humans)

AI is ready to stop playing games and move on to other challenges.

Researchers have just taught cyborg brains how to play Pong

The mini-brains were able to learn how to play the game faster than an AI.

'Lunar ark' might store DNA from millions of species in Moon's lava tubes

A backup plan in case we screw up this planet for good.

Electronic textiles could turn clothes into wearable electronics

Turning fabrics into display electronics could lead to a new class of smart clothing.

Electroceuticals, the bioelectronic medicine of the future

Future medicine could come in the form of electric impulses and go straight to the brain.

This robot hears with the ears of a locust

When biology and human technology come together.

Physicists believe faster-than-light travel is indeed possible with new warp drive

Warp drives aren't such a crazy idea after all.

Portrait-to-animation AI brings to life Marie Curie, Charles Darwin, and more

This is very surreal.

AI traffic management could finally declog urban roads

How AI is poised to revamp traffic management.

Shape-shifting and self-healing materials are coming -- here's what you need to know

Your clothes could soon come to life.

Japanese spaceport floating on an artificial island is a peek into the future

This amazing concept might lay the groundwork for the spaceports we've all be drooling over.

3 technologies poised to change food and the planet

Agriculture’s impact on the planet is massive and relentless.

Marine sponges inspire stronger, lighter skyscrapers and bridges

Designs that mimic the glassy sponge’s skeletal structure are 20% stronger than traditional structures employed today in engineering.

Bitcoin now consumes more energy than Argentina

As Bitcoin's price surges, so does its carbon footprint.

Hyperbaric oxygen chambers could stop genetic aging, clinical study suggests

Hyperbaric chambers could be a 'fountain of youth', the study authors say.

Scientists make paralyzed mice walk again, in groundbreaking treatment

The groundbreaking treatment could soon be trialed on humans.

AI-assisted test diagnoses prostate cancer from urine with almost 100% accuracy

The test only takes 20 minutes.

Autonomous robot swarm swims like a school of fish

These underwater robots operate as a collective artificial intelligence.

ZeroLabs' electric platform converts vintage cars into EVs

Thanks to this platform, any old car can be reborn as an electric vehicle.

Three-wheeled solar-powered EV allegedly has 1,000 miles of range

Electric cars and solar power may work together like a hand and a glove.

AI makes stunning protein folding breakthrough -- but not all researchers are convinced

DeepMind's AlphaFold claims to have solved a 50-year-old challenge of protein structure.

KFC introduces self-driving trucks to sell chicken without human contact

They're already up and running in China, and could expand elsewhere.

Magnetic spray turns inanimate objects into minirobots

Pills coated with the substance could navigate through the body using magnets.

Liquid telescope could help us see the very first stars

Mothballed on NASA’s shelves were the plans to view stars 13 billion years in the past. Now, a group of astronomers from the University of Texas at Austin want to dust off ideas for a moon-based telescope and try to put them to good use. The project was first tabled more than a decade ago […]

These stretchable gloves could let you touch stuff in VR

The stretchable sensors might make VR feel more real.

South Korea's new experimental train runs at 1000 km/h

At this speed, it would go from Paris to Moscow in under three hours.

MIT researchers confident their fusion reactor is "very likely to work"

It's one of the holy grails of energy production, and these researchers believe it's perfectly feasible.

Neuralink: brain hacking is exceptionally hard, no matter what Elon Musk says

Decades of research have shown that the brain does not yield its secrets easily.

AI uses Einstein's special relativity to predict future events

Researchers used 'light cones' to draw boundaries and make AIs more human-like in predicting events in the future.

Scientists use yeast to produce 'magic mushroom' active ingredient

Using nature, scientists have been able to create molecules that are normally extremely expensive if not impossible to chemically synthesize in the lab.

Just a few autonomous vehicles could dramatically improve traffic -- as long they're organized

Just 5% of road traffic consisting of autonomous vehicles could reduce traffic congestion by 40%.

Text AI can produce images -- and it's very good at it

AI is already nearing sci-fi territory.

New AI can write in any style, answer deep questions, and even write poems

We are officially looking through the glass -- this AI is eerily good.

Mayors want "15-minute" cities for a sustainable recovery of the pandemic

We need to rethink the way cities function

The Earth's population in 2100 could be much lower than we thought

Population growth could decline in the second part of the century, a new study finds.