The award-winning invention automates a 'chore that everyone hates'

Humanity is facing thorny problems on all fronts. These folks are working to solve them—and trying to avoid the unintended consequences this time.

The concept of using an “elevator” to travel from Earth to space has been around for quite some time, with an early concept first proposed in 1959 by Russian engineer Yuri Artsutanov.

Scientists develop fully autonomous robots that could end the need for workers to scale dangerously-tall wind turbines.

A drone air taxi designed by Airbus has successfully completed 114 test flights in Pacific Northwest skies.

Mayor's co-laureate, Didier Queloz agreed, telling Newsweek, "It's time to stop dreaming and confront reality, and for our human society to carry our effort and act to ensure that a future exists and that maybe, one day, we will be able to journey among the stars."

“We’re going to get more and more of this content and it’s probably going to get of better quality,” says Sam Gregory of the human-rights nonprofit Witness.

The fundamental problem with AI is it is often riddled with society's existing biases and prejudices.

Connected cookbooks? Alexa-enabled microwaves? None of this stuff will make you a better home cook.

He was awarded 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for 'groundbreaking discoveries'

A pilot project at Rotterdam airport plans to capture CO2 from the air and turn it into jet fuel.

The laws go after malicious video forgeries.

Text-generating AI is getting better and better — but it’s not yet contest-winning good.

"Global greenhouse gas emissions need to decline today rather than tomorrow, and global CO2 emissions should be brought to net zero."

A Google researcher’s paper claiming to have achieved quantum supremacy, a major early milestone in the field of quantum computing, appeared on a NASA website this week before being removed, the Financial Times reports.

Set in 2019, cult 80s movie "Blade Runner" envisaged a neon-stained landscape of bionic "replicants" genetically engineered to look just like humans. So far that has failed to materialise, but at a secretive research institute in western Japan, wild-haired roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro is fine-tuning technology that could blur the line between man and machine.

These tiny tubes of atomically thin carbon sheets are just nanometers in size, transport charge carriers very quickly, and are excellent semiconductors.

Brook Clinton hopes her collective of composters will one day lead to a world without landfill.

Jack Ma, the billionaire founder of Alibaba, previously supported the idea of a 12-hour work day. Now, he says people should have a 12-hour work week, with help from AI.

Ariane 6, Europe's next-generation launch vehicle, has passed another key development milestone. Its Vulcain 2.1 liquid-fuelled engine has now completed its qualification testing, which means combined tests can now begin.