Hyundai Motor Co said on Thursday it was placing electric vehicles at the center of its product strategy - one that includes plans for a premium long-distance electric car as it seeks to catch up to Tesla and other rivals.

A breakthrough could lead to easier, faster and cheaper vaccines.

The vast majority of coastal countries on Earth are missing out on a valuable resource to ensure future food security, according to newly published research. Published in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, the research has found that the world’s oceans contain numerous “hot spots” for marine aquaculture, or ocean-based fish farms, which could produce 15 billion tonnes of fish every year: over 100 times current seafood consumption globally.

In a major step towards creating a tricorder, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers have invented a device that allows smartphones to perform the kinds of lab-grade medical diagnostic tests that previously had to be done on large and expensive instruments. The device, called a spectral transmission-reflectance-intensity (TRI)-Analyzer, plugs into a smartphone and is able to run tests on a patient’s blood, urine, or saliva as reliably as clinic-based instruments that cost thousands of dollars. The researchers say their TRI Analyzer costs only $550.

There has been many arguments made about how a super intelligent AI might be a catastrophe for the human race more profound than a nuclear holocaust. Many of these arguments consider the scenarios where the AI might be evil, might have a amoral goal or destroy humanity like we destroy ants who lie in the way of a new skyscraper.

In his book 1984, George Orwell detailed a dystopian world wherein a person or persona called “Big Brother” saw everything that people did and where the central government pushed its agenda through propaganda, spying, monitoring, and thought controls. That book was published in 1949.

Elon Musk’s Boring Company has recommitted to building a network of high-speed transport tunnels, including a Hyperloop vacuum-tube supersonic transport system between New York and Washington DC, which it claims will whisk people from A to B at 600mph in a vacuum tube.

Impossible Foods CEO Pat Brown argues the merits of plant-based burgers on Too Embarrassed to Ask.

In a mind-boggling world first, a team of biologists and security researchers have successfully infected a computer with a into a strand of DNA.

DARPA announced yesterday that it has awarded contracts to five research groups and one company as part of its Neural Engineering System Design program. The six organizations have set up teams to work on the fundamental research and technologies for the Neural Engineering System Design program to achieve its vision of high-resolution neural interfaces that can restore human senses and enhance them.

In a striking advance that helps open the door to organ transplants from animals, researchers have created gene-edited piglets cleansed of viruses that might cause disease in humans. The experiments, reported on Thursday in the journal Science, may make it possible one day to transplant livers, hearts and other organs from pigs into humans, a hope that experts had all but given up.

These advances raise practical questions we have never had to address before.

Since its inception it has doubled every eight months.

From efficient EVs to hyper-class sports cars and rugged retro-inspired SUVS, our automotive future looks incredibly bright—and a lot of fun. Here are a dozen machines that we can't wait to drive. A dedicated car enthusiast leads a life of waiting...and waiting...and waiting, but luckily there's plenty of vehicles in the next five years that are worth our saint-like patience. Many beloved models make a triumphant return, electric vehicles take center stage, and sports cars pack in even more innovation (and horsepower).

Along with our partner Blizzard Entertainment, we are excited to announce the release of the Starcraft II Learning Environment (SC2LE), a suite of tools that we hope will accelerate AI research in the real-time strategy game and make it easier for researchers to focus on the frontiers of our field.

Engines powered by ions are currently carrying satellites outsides of our solar system, but here on Earth, this futuristic propulsion could power miniature robots. Daniel Drew, an engineering student at the University of California, Berkeley, found himself inspired to study miniature robots from the science fiction he devoured as a child.

A new report from UBS showed the main obstacle for pilotless flying is not the lack of technology. It's the passengers.

Scientists have hailed a “breakthrough” technology capable of regrowing damaged organs and healing serious wounds with the single touch of a penny-sized pad.

Dubai’s Road and Transport Authority (RTA) announced that it will begin testing a two-passenger autonomous aerial taxi (AAT) later this year. You might think the photos are out of a science fiction film or a futuristic cartoon, but they are not. This is actually happening in Dubai in 2017.

The largest supermarket in the U.S. has a new name in the meat aisle. It just so happens that it’s not made of meat. The plant-based Beyond Burger, made by startup Beyond Meat, began rolling out in more than 600 Kroger-owned (KR, +0.33%) stores in June—a move that has more than tripled the burger's distribution within two months.

Scientists from the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Centre have come up with what sounds like a science fiction - a nanotechnology device that can switch the cell functions in such a way that the failing organs are revived using a single touch. This concept was not a new one and has been studied for quite some time now.

Of course you remember the DeLorean car from Back to the Future. At the end of the 1985 movie, it didn’t just speed off into the distance—it flew away after Doc Brown’s infamous line, “Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.” If Paul DeLorean has his way, Back to the Future won’t be science fiction. It will be a documentary.

IHS Markit expects li-ion battery prices to fall below $200/kWh by 2019, and for the cumulative installed base of energy storage to reach 52 GW globally by 2025, up from 4 GW today.

It’s time to dethrone capitalism’s single-minded directive and replace it with a more balanced logic, laying the foundations for a better, more equitable world.

“Artificial intelligence is just something that I think anything that represents a risk to the public deserves at least insight from the government, because one of the mandates of the government is the public wellbeing,” Musk said, responding to a question today during Tesla’s financial results conference call.

In a new world record, scientists at IBM have captured 330 terabytes of uncompressed data — or the equivalent of 330 million books — into a cartridge that can fit into the palm of your hand.

Several Chinese cities are already preparing for the tech.

Last year, extraterrestrial exploration venture Breakthrough Initiatives announced an ambitious plan to send tons of tiny spacecraft to our nearest neighboring star system, Alpha Centauri. The project, called Breakthrough Starshot, is focused on launching lightweight ‘nanocraft’ to the stars at rip-roaring speeds. Recently, the project took a big leap toward achieving its ultimate goal by successfully sending six test craft into Low Earth Orbit.

SEATTLE—Explaining that the larger containment center was necessary to keep up with increased demand, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced Thursday the completion of a new suspension tank that will allow the online retailer to house even more of the psychic beings who foresee each shopper’s future orders.

The filter removed 99 percent of metals from samples contaminated with cadmium, cobalt, copper, mercury, nickel, and lead. A chemist from Rice University and a high school student have developed a filter that can remove toxic heavy metals from the water. The researchers calculated that one gram of the material could get 83,000 liters of water to World Health Organization standards. The filter can be washed with household vinegar and reused.

The Yara Birkeland will be the world's first autonomous electric cargo ship. Its costs will be $25 million and is being commissioned by two Norwegian companies.

Shortly after reaching home from a long day's work, Mr Ma Bin, 30, a software engineer in Beijing, walks into his flat's living room and, in Alibaba's "Open Sesame" style in One Thousand And One Nights, says to a remote controller on the sofa: "Let's talk." Immediately, his Internet-connected TV hears his command, switches itself on automatically in utter obedience and begins beaming Mr Ma's favourite TV show.

Traumatic injury in space has a huge potential impact on a mission. And people barely know anything about how to deal with it. Metthieu Komorowski wanted to be an astronaut. Still does. The French-born anesthesiologist, currently getting a PhD at Imperial College London, applied to the European Space Agency in 2008. But he knows his chances are limited. “Being basically a medical resident I didn’t get very far in the selection,” Komorowski says. “But I’ve been working on building up my skills.”

At least since 2013, one of the biggest concerns in the climate change debate has been the so-called carbon budget.

The human-computer interface is changing: Welcome to a world of holograms, augmented reality, and thought-controlled Word docs.