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AI for speech recognition is nearing a watershed moment

Computers will soon be able to understand what we say.

A simple smartphone camera and app could be enough to measure your blood oxygen levels at home

Widely available tools could help monitor a crucial health indicator.

Juicy bots: Withering passion fruit gives rise to a robot that can clean space junk

The patterns formed on a withering passion fruit hold valuable insights for designing robots.

Heating layer helps any electric vehicle battery charge in just 10 minutes

A rather simply design tweak could have a massive impact on EV adoption.

Smartphones can predict a lot of things about us. But can they predict mortality risk?

We're basically carrying a bunch of sensors around us at all times.

Suddenly dodging potholes after all this rain? Here’s how drones could help with repairs

Could airborne drones help the situation on the ground?

Scientists set new world record for data transfer at 1.8 petabits per second. That's twice the global internet traffic

You could download twice as much data as everyone on the internet with this connection.

How quantum computing could solve our huge climate and energy challenges

The day is coming when quantum computers, once the stuff of science fiction, will help scientists solve complex, real-world problems that are proving intractable to classical computing.

A political party headed by an AI aims to fight general elections in Denmark

The AI led party wants to grab the attention of the voters in the country who don't have any representation.

New exoskeleton leaves the lab, steps into the real world -- and adapts on the fly

This is science at its finest.

Cancer vaccines by 2030? Covid vaccine pioneers are optimistic

After developing the first effective vaccine against COVID-19, these two researchers have their eyes set on something bigger: cancer.

An AI capable of 'thermal attacks' just proved that no password is safe

Scientists created an AI password thief to show that we need better safety measures than passwords and PIN.

AI eye checks can detect heart diseases in less than a minute

Your eyes may hold the key to detecting heart disease.

DeepMind trained gamified AI to find the fastest algorithm for crucial math in computer science. Not long after, the AI beat a 50-year-old record

Researchers converted the problem of finding efficient algorithms into a single-player game.

World's whitest paint is now thin enough to coat and cool down cars, trains and planes

The 'whitest white' can reflect up to 98% of incoming light, including ultraviolet frequencies.

New technique from Singapore makes lab-grown meat cheaper, greener, and more ethical

Lab-grown meat seems poised to truly take off.

New AI tool can generate videos from text inputs, and it's cool and scary

Things are about to get very weird very fast.

New house 3D printing concept blends concrete and wood for cheap, sustainable buildings

Would you print a house?

AI invents new proteins from scratch: the next frontier in biology

The powerful new AI could be used to find new cures and high-tech biomaterials.

You can use this patch to tattoo yourself without pain or shedding blood

But it won't put tattoo artists out of business just yet.

Most fans don't know it but Doctor Who's sonic screwdriver exists for real. Well, sort of

After all, “whole worlds pivot on acts of imagination.”

The Follower: This super creepy AI can find you based on Instagram photos and open surveillance

A dystopia is shaping up before our eyes.

Researchers created an accurate, 3D Manta ray model -- and it's mesmerizing

It's the first-ever accurate manta ray model and it could help in their conservation.

Watch out, Messi: artificial intelligence has finally learned to play football

An artificial intelligence worked through decades' worth of soccer matches in just a few weeks, learning how to play the game.

Scientists have created a material that can think under stress

The engineered material can sense physical touch and now scientists want it to also processs visual information.

This stunning AI-generated picture won a fine arts competition -- and human artists were not happy at all

Is art still art if a computer made it?

Scientists find unique material with its own memory, similar to human neurons

Vanadium oxide seems capable of “remembering” its history of previous external stimuli. No other material is like it.

New aluminum batteries could be the dirt cheap alternative to lithium-ion that we've all been waiting for

The time has come to try aluminum-sulfur batteries — a promising cheaper alternative to storing energy.

Move over, IKEA. The furniture of the future could arrive flat then self-assemble into a 3D shape

Researchers in Israel have made a special ink that can print flat wood panels that can turn into complicated shapes like a chair.

A robot surgeon called MIRA can perform surgeries in outer space

It could also allow doctors to perform surgeries remotely in rural and underprivileged areas.

'Fake meat' is friendlier for the environment than animal meat, but is it healthier?

Most of us can agree new meat alternatives taste great, but are they a healthier alternative to meat?

Drone deliveries consume 94% less energy per parcel than diesel trucks

The future sounds cloudy with a chance of drone swarms.

This self-healing coating repairs car scratches with just 30 minutes in the sun

The coating repairs itself when a special dye is activated by energy from the sun.

Engineers use 19th-century photography technique to create stretchy, color-changing films

There's more to it than just some flashy fashion item.

New biofilm can produce continuous electricity from your sweat

Wearable electronics could soon be powered by dead microbes, based on this new study

This free AI tool restores old and deteriorated photos in an instant

Time to dust off those old family photos in the attic.

This is the world's longest flexible fiber battery. You can weave and wash it in fabrics

The new battery fiber allows designs and applications that have not been possible before.

Disposable paper battery is activated by just a drop of water

Tiny, cheap batteries like this could someday turn anything into an electronic device.

Saudi Arabia plans to build a massive skyscraper that stretches for 75 miles and can host 5 million people

It's expected to cost up to a trillion dollars and house about five million people when fully completed.

You may not believe it, but this robotic hand can imagine its next move  

Robots are starting to think about themselves.

This AI saved hundreds of lives from sepsis in just five hospitals. Across the US, thousands more could be spared

A machine learning-based early detection system can flag life-threatening sepsis 20% faster than before.

Is it time to go electric? Some EVs pay for themselves in a couple of years

With rising fuel prices, electric cars are only getting more and more attractive.

Researchers from Japan want to make artificial gravity on Mars with "Glass" structures

The 'Glass' building can speed up the process of developing human settlements on other planets by producing Earth-like gravity.

Can this futuristic, driverless tram revitalize abandoned railways?

Would you travel in one of these?

NASA wants to build a swarm of tiny, wedge-shaped robots to look for life on faraway worlds

How to look for life on unfriendly bodies like Europa or Enceladus? Just make a bunch of swimmy robots and have them look for it.

UK’s public health service will use drones to deliver chemotherapy drugs

It's just a trial so far, but it could be expanded if deemed successful.

Are we breeding a generation of racist AI?

It's very easy for AI to reflect the biases and discrimination we already have in society.

Zero-emissions electric boat-plane could transform sea travel

It's a plane. No, it's a boat. No, it's kind of ... both?

This DALL-E mini AI can create original digital paintings of anything -- so why is it obsessed with women in saris?

Try DALL E mini and you'll be obsessed too.

A blue pigment loved by artists could suck up precious metals from your discarded cell phone

Prussian blue changed art in the 18th century. Three hundred years later, the pigment could help solve our electronic and nuclear waste problem.

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