This article was originally published on Undark. Read the original article. On a lonely planet, billions of years ago, a soup of chemicals—in the right place, at the right time, and with the right ...

Jonathan the giant tortoise was born when Darwin was still a young man. Youthful gene activity may account for his exceptionally long life. Getting a DNA sample is simple. Rub a Q-tip a few times ...

Brain scans contain clues about what someone is looking at, but turning those signals back into recognizable images is difficult. Now, researchers in Israel have built an AI system that recreates what ...

The inner workings of large AI systems remain largely opaque, raising significant safety and trust issues. Researchers have now developed a technique to extract and manipulate the internal concepts ...

Genetic mutations cause cancer. This idea has long driven strategies that aim to lower risk or determine when to look for early signs of disease. Don’t smoke. Minimize alcohol. Get vaccinated against ...

Originally published by Max Roser at Our World in Data. Republished here under a Creative Commons license. Artificial intelligence that surpasses our own intelligence sounds like the stuff from ...

As marathoners navigated the hills of beautiful Sangju in South Korea, they noticed an odd participant at their side. A dog-like robot, named RAIBO2, trotted across winding terrain and slippery roads, ...

There’s truth to the old adage, “Age is just a number.” People of the same age differ vastly in health and mental capabilities. One 80-year-old may be vibe coding with Claude, while another is ...

"According to a metric [METR] devised, the capabilities of key LLMs are doubling every seven months. This realization leads to a second conclusion, equally stunning: By 2030, the most advanced LLMs ...

It’s easy to take safe drinking water for granted. In most developed countries, access to safe water takes a simple flip of a kitchen tap or a run to the grocery store. But over two billion people ...

The boy, whose liver cancer had spread to his lungs, suffered no dangerous side effects and remained cancer-free a year later. At just three years of age, the boy had already been through the medical ...

Innespace’s Seabreacher series is biomimetic. Sort of. These special watercraft behave like a rocket-powered shark or killer whale might. And in case you wonder what inspired its inventors, they erase ...