Engineer who quit over military drone project warns AI might also accidentally start a war

The future of work means fewer hours spent working.

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

As AI gets better at performing routine tasks traditionally done by humans, only stressful ones will be left. The work experience could suffer.

Mesh implants could help treat diseases and change how we age

AI is outpacing our ability to understand it, says the Tesla CEO. It will open a new chapter for society, replies the Alibaba cofounder.

Greta Thunberg’s zero-carbon Atlantic crossing is not an option for most. But it might be in years to come, if experiments with hydrogen, solar and batteries pay off

Designs of a luxury space hotel, the first holiday destination in space show the amazing prospect of Space Tourism.

If you've ever tried to swat a fly, you know that insects react to movement extremely quickly. A newly created biologically inspired compound eye is helping scientists understand how insects use their compound eyes to sense an object and its trajectory with such speed. The compound eye could also be used with a camera to create 3-D location systems for robots, self-driving cars and unmanned aerial vehicles.

Legumes could be the answer, writes Richard Trethowan from the University of Sydney, Australia.

The technology is likely to revolutionize the lenses used in VR/AR headsets as well.

Oil spills can spell big trouble for the environment, and an efficient and swift response is critical in trying to contain the problem. In the not-too-distant future folks dealing with such incidents may have a robotic helper to call on...

Silicon’s reign in cutting-edge electronics may soon over. The carbon nanotube could be its successor.

Can privacy survive?

Taking our productive capabilities, and the search for the resources that powers them, to space might one day be an inevitability.

A tiny jellyfish-like robot could be used to deliver drugs in the body. It is only 3 millimeters across and is controlled by magnetic fields

An AI fake text generator that can write paragraphs in a style based on just a sentence has raised concerns about its potential to spread false information

Shaped like a gun, Nanomedic’s SpinCare device emits a web of electrospun polymer nanofabric that stays put for weeks—no dressing changes required.

Space travel is conducive to injuries. Now researchers from Dresden Technical University (TUD) have developed a 3D bioprinting method for use in space, creating new skin and bone tissue out of resources that might be available to astronauts.

The threat to the 2020 election is the most urgent when it comes to deepfakes, but it's not the only one.