Alex Gibney’s sweeping documentary captures the video game-like sense of unreality that swirls around Elon Musk.

Plastic is usually inert, but in a new lab study, microplastics in water spontaneously produced damaging free radicals. What ...

IntroductionIn this series, we are testing the idea that "the universe might be a simulation running on a giant computer" by ...

AI may soon be the default way to solve theoretical problems in economics, high-energy physics, and other fields, MIT ...

In his book The Coming Technological Singularity, Vinge argued that the creation of greater-than-human intelligence could ...

IntroductionIn this series, we are verifying the idea that "the universe might be a simulation running on a giant computer" ...

Black holes famously trap light. A new acoustic device borrows the idea to swallow sound. (Yukterez/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0) Sound can be a tricksy beast to try to harness. It fills the world ...

Discover how scientist Vijay Bhatkar and his Pune-based team built PARAM 8000, India’s first indigenous supercomputer, with a ...

Tech giants are fighting to protect their monopolies from cheap open-source models. Fear is their weapon.

Researchers at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and others have shown that a population of autonomous agents with no central ...

A quibit in a magic state is prepared in a very specific blend of the states 0 and 1 (occupying a mixture of states is a specialty of quantum computers). Fed into a calculation, it is used up to ...