Tesla Motors Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk and other prominent tech executives are pouring $1 billion into a non-profit aimed at creating artificial intelligence that augments humans’ capabilities, rather than making them obsolete.
An international research team reports that the rapid increase in global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels has slowed in the past two years, underlining the need for action to permanently lower emissions.
Dwarf planet Ceres is shown in these false-color renderings, which highlight differences in surface materials. Images from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft were used to create a movie of Ceres rotating, followed by a flyover view of Occator Crater, home of Ceres’ brightest area.
General Electric has announced the launch of the Digital Wind Farm.
The 12 MW installation will be built across eight sheltered venues at a single premise at the R.S.S.B. Educational & Environmental Society in Amritsar, India.
Physicists have firmed up a theoretical limit on the mass of a black hole by figuring out when it will disrupt the disc that feeds it.
Astrophotographer Ron Brecher took this image of IC 417, known as the spider nebula, from Guelph, Ontario.
Researchers in Japan recently analyzed 601 jobs and found that 49 percent of the common occupations they analyzed could be performed by robots or computer automation in the next 10 to 20 years.
Google has been sharing more details about its quantum computing project, which it runs in partnership with NASA.
Some of the five mass extinctions Earth experienced in the past were driven by climate changes. Future Earth will be just fine.
EPFL spin-off Nanolive has launched the 3D Cell Explorer, a microscope for observing living cells in 3D. This new tool could be a real boon for researchers in such areas as infertility.
WHILE everyone has been focusing on their iPhones and Macs, Apple has been quietly getting ready to enter an untapped new market.
A Buddhist technique designed to increase kindness toward others was shown to be effective in reducing racial prejudice.
In a letter to his daughter, Max, born December 1, Zuckerberg announced he will give away 99 per cent of the value of his Facebook shares worth over $45 billion to charitable causes
The human brain, a 3-pound organ and source of symphonies, mathematics, politics, hate and crime, is often hailed as the most complex biological entity in the known universe.
