The same technologies are being used by Chinese people to make replicas of themselves, their children, and famous public ...

Astronomers still don’t know what causes fast radio bursts, but they’re starting to use them to illuminate the space between galaxies. When our universe was less than half as old as it is ...

We need more research, including outdoor experiments, to make better-informed decisions about such climate interventions. The public debate over whether we should consider intentionally altering ...

AI is upending the way robots learn, leaving companies and researchers with a need for more data. Getting it means wrestling with a host of ethical and legal questions. Since ChatGPT was released ...

And it’s scary how little control we have over how it’s used. This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign ...

Three books reveal just how tragic a toll the materials we rely on take for humans and the environment. Some time before the first dinosaurs, two supercontinents, Laurasia and Gondwana, collided ...

Tariffs and IRA tax incentives are starting to reshape global supply chains—but vast challenges lie ahead, explains Shawn Qu, founder of Canadian Solar. Whenever you see a solar panel, most ...

Researchers are using generative AI and other techniques to teach robots new skills—including tasks they could perform in homes. Silent. Rigid. Clumsy. Henry and Jane Evans are used to awkward ...

Synthesia's new technology is impressive but raises big questions about a world where we increasingly can’t tell what’s real. I’m stressed and running late, because what do you wear for the ...

Louisiana’s southwestern coastline faces some of the most severe climate predictions in the US. Can a government-led project build the area up and out of crisis? There is more than one way to ...

A world powered by electricity from abundant, renewable resources is now within reach. In 1856, Napoleon III commissioned a baby rattle for his newborn son, to be made from one of the most ...

Open AI’s CEO says we won’t need new hardware or lots more training data to get there. A number of moments from my brief sit-down with Sam Altman brought the OpenAI CEO’s worldview into ...