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We need to rethink the American love affair with the automobile and redesign cities to reduce car pollution

Engaging the fine motor system to produce letters by hand has positive effects on learning and memory

The effort to give robots AI brains is revealing big practical challenges—and bigger ethical concerns

A new technique to make electronic fibers could help solve wearable technology’s flexibility problem

The release of Apple’s mixed-reality headset raises questions about hours spent in a virtual replacement of our world

New materials would help the cars of the future survive cold snaps and other climate disruptions

AI-generated disinformation will target voters on a near-daily basis in more than 50 countries, according to a new analysis

Our research finds that language is often a barrier for people dealing with cybercrime issues and that it’s important to close this security gap

In January Taylor Swift became the latest high-profile target of nonconsensual deepfake images. It’s time for regulations that ban this kind of abusive AI […]

A leaked draft of the European Union’s upcoming AI Act has experts discussing where the regulations may fall short

When asked, ChatGPT declared that its training material—the language we humans use every day—was to blame for potential bias in stories it generated

A new kind of transistor allows AI hardware to remember and process information more like the human brain does

AI helps decipher the text of a 2,000-year-old scroll burned at Pompeii

Amid rising numbers of cyber threats, safeguarding our satellites is no longer optional but a necessity for global security and reliability

Sean Kirkpatrick looked into the skies and deep into government archives for extraterrestrials. What he found is, to him, more concerning than little green men.

A materials scientist unravels the hype around research on high-temperature superconductor research like LK-99

Most machine-learning models rely on mountains of data to replicate human text, but new research suggests the recipe for learning language might be simpler

Sallie Pero Mead made major discoveries about how electromagnetic waves propagate that allowed objects to be detected at a distance

The word “open” is often thrown around in describing AI transparency, but the companies and groups calling for it must themselves be open about their […]

A Brookings Institution report warns that energy-hungry artificial intelligence tech will worsen the climate crisis

These bloblike bots have been optimized for speed

Experts are starting to plan for the moment when a quantum computer large enough to crack the backbone of the math that keeps things secret will be turned on.

A new mathematical proof helps show whether a sequence of numbers is “pseudorandom”

A speculative survey about AI’s future may have been biased toward an alarmist perspective

An alleged voice recording of racist remarks exemplifies the challenges of our new AI normal