For some, the current crisis is a dummy run for long-term lockdown. Across the world, luxury bunkers are being built for a lucky few to survive calamity and collapse.

What are the biggest, boldest things that humanity could engineer? From planet lifters to space cannons, Anders Sandberg explores some of history's most ambitious visions.

New eco-friendly project launched by the crown prince panned on social media as 'nonsense' and 'dreamed up from a sci-fi movie'

The future of the world's largest rainforest looks bleak. A report for Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development concluded that the Amazon rainforest will collapse and largely become a dry, shrubby plain by 2064. Development, deforestation and the climate crisis are to blame, study author and geologist Robert Toovey Walker found.

China plans a digital version of its currency, which some say could become a big global payment system.

United Parcel Service Inc said on Tuesday it is buying 125 Tesla Inc all-electric semi-trucks, the largest known order for the big rig so far, as the package delivery company expands its fleet of alternative-fuel vehicles.

Companies are pledging to sell you more plant-based meat and dairy to fight climate change (and cash in on a growing trend).

The government must reckon with the impact of artificial intelligence on human employment by amending the tax regime.

A Korean fusion device has set a record by running for 20 seconds at 180 million degrees.

Within the next decade, trend forecaster Dr Morgaine Gaye predicts we will have moved beyond the current protein craze, be eating food made from ‘the biggest ingredient of the future’, and variety will play a greater role in all things fruit and veg.

Zoox, Amazon’s self-driving vehicle startup, revealed a prototype of its robotaxi Monday that could one day spend 16 hours a day offering rides in cities.

BloombergNEF predicts that by 2023, batteries will drop near the $100-per-kilowatt-hour threshold—good news for EV companies and electric-car shoppers.

"We all get the privilege of seeing the future because we are making it.”

Synthetic voices have become ubiquitous. They feed us directions in the morning, shepherd us through phone calls by day and broadcast the news on smart speakers at night. And as the technology used to make them improves, these voices are becoming more and more human-sounding. This is the final frontier in synthetic speech: replicating not just what we say but how we say it.

'I was confident that we would succeed when I launched this company, now I'm completely confident. It's game over for the incumbent industry'

Much of the hype around AI — all the disruption it was supposed to bring and the leaps it was supposed to fuel — will begin in earnest in the next few years.

The Shadow Robot Dexterous Hand is comparable to a human hand, reproducing all of its degrees of freedom While dexterous manipulation of objects is a fundamental everyday task for humans, it is still very challenging for autonomous robotic hands to master Researchers at WMG, University of Warw

An extremely odd project is planning to hold a remote-controlled car race next October ... On the surface of the Moon. What's more, the two racecars will be partially designed by high school kids, and McLaren P1 designer Frank Stephenson is involved.

A material that mimics human skin in? stretchability, strength, and sensitivity could be used to collect biological data in real-time. Electronic skin, or e-skin, may play an important role in upcoming next-generation personalized medicine, prosthetics, AI, and soft robotics.

Beyond virtual and augmented reality