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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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, ...

A new system could help flag proteins generated by AI and ease risks to biosecurity. But it isn't a perfect solution. Proteins were once only created by nature. But it’s now possible to design ...

AI agents don’t go rogue. That’s something only humans do. Nevertheless, a New York Times article—representative of much news coverage of—described an OpenAI hacking as “AI bots going rogue and ...

Earlier this month, artificial intelligence researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic after just four months. In an announcement on X, he stated: "The people building AI earnestly believe that it ...

The AI Build-Out Is Becoming the Biggest Economic Bet in US HistoryKonrad Putzier and Justin Lahart | The Wall Street Journal ($) "The AI build-out is on track to become the biggest economic bet in US ...

"Hyundai Motor Group is building a new US factory with the capacity to churn out 30,000 robots every year, and it plans to put 25,000 Atlas units to work. According to Boston Dynamics, the partnership ...

Orbital data centers and factories will need a lot of energy. A Florida startup hopes to deliver it with lasers. Ambitious plans for orbital data centers and factories face a major problem—getting ...