Electricity could be beamed to your home using microwave technology instead of copper lines.

A new machine learning program called MISIM can figure out what a snippet of code is meant to do and offer up new code to make it faster or more efficient.

To rapidly test for COVID-19 treatments without animal studies, researchers make a model human body out of “organ chips.”

It will "usher in a new era of communications," the Department of Energy says.

As calls for climate action get louder and costs associated with airships drop, we may find ourselves being ferried across the globe by helium-filled balloons.

Airbus finished the tests in June after its first autonomous take-off in December, paving the way for pilot-less passenger flights in the future.

A lot of the predictions we hear about the future involve a hot, crowded planet, one where we need some serious science to figure out how to feed everyone and control rising global temperatures. The UN’s population forecast of almost 10 billion people by 2050 is widely quoted, and with it has come much conjecture about what such a world will look like. Where will all those people live? What kind of jobs will they have? What will they eat?

Communicating with the homeworld may be tough.

Shudu Gram is a striking South African model. She’s what fashion likes to call “one to watch,” with a Balmain campaign in 2018, a feature in Vogue Australia on changing the face of fashion, and a red carpet appearance at the 2019 BAFTAs in a custom Swarovski gown.

"That transformation is inevitable," Impossible Foods founder and CEO Patrick Brown said after Starbucks launched the Impossible Breakfast Sandwich.

A decade ago, mainstream experts weren’t predicting that the cost of solar power would fall as steeply as it has by 2020—it’s now down more than 80% so far. Tony Seba, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor, was one of the few to get the forecast right. Seba and investor James Arbib, who run a think tank called RethinkX, now say that similar changes could happen in other parts of the economy, transforming the cost of everyday life so significantly that it could pull people out of poverty.

A stalwart of the Mexican landscape is finding a second life powering up buildings in the desert, and it is proving to be an unusually sustainable biofuel.

Earlier this year, Amazon announced its Scout sidewalk delivery robot. At the time, details were sparse, except for the fact that the company had started to make deliveries in a neighborhood in Washington State.

DETROIT (AP) — A new study says that while autonomous vehicle technology has great promise to reduce crashes, it may not be able to prevent all mishaps caused by human error.

Activism is working. Both on the streets as people protest to end racist and violent policing, and among civil liberties organizations who have been fighting the government’s use of harmful face surveillance technology. This week two major vendors of face surveillance technology announced that in...

Back in 2017, architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group were asked to design a prototype of a Martian city by the Dubai government. What they came up with is a stunning vision of what life on the Red Planet could one day be like, CNN reports. The project is part of the United Arab Emirates’ Mars Science City, a space intended for Dubai’s Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre.

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Heavy-duty trucks are responsible for 70% of vehicle air pollution in the state.

In 1996 John Perry Barlow, cofounder of internet rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation, wrote “A declaration of the independence of cyberspace.” It begins: “Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the…

Investing in nature could also benefit the economy.