Its crunch time on climate change, and companies, governments, philanthropists, and NGOs around the world are starting to take action, be it through donating huge sums of money to the cause, building

Thanks to deep learning, the central mysteries of structural biology are falling like dominos.Just last year, DeepMind shocked the biomedical field with AlphaFold, an algorithm that predicts protein

With the pace of emissions reductions looking unlikely to prevent damaging climate change, controversial geoengineering approaches are gaining traction. But aversion to even studying such a drastic op

Just a few months ago, most of us had never heard of an NFT. Even once we figured out what they were, it seemed like maybe theyd be a short-lived fad, a distraction for the tech-savvy to funnel money

House prices have soared during the last year and a half, and the implications arent great (unless youre a homeowner looking just to sell and not buy). Homelessness and housing insecurity have risen

Most people know that the land masses on which we all live represent just 30 percent of Earths surface, and the rest is covered by oceans.The emergence of the continents was a pivotal moment in the

When it comes to brain computing, timing is everything. Its how neurons wire up into circuits. Its how these circuits process highly complex data, leading to actions that can mean life or death. It

While getting humans to Mars is likely to be one of the grandest challenges humanity has ever undertaken, getting them back could be even tougher. Researchers think sending genetically engineered micr

AI research wunderkind, DeepMind, has long been all fun and games.The London-based organization, owned by Google parent company Alphabet, has used deep learning to train algorithms that can take down

Four and a half years ago, a robot named Flippy made its burger-cooking debut at a fast food restaurant called CaliBurger. The bot consisted of a cart on wheels with an extending arm, complete with a