Recursive self-improvement, where AI continuously builds better versions of itself, might be harder than some hope.

When Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica in 2025, it was the strongest storm ever to hit the island. The hurricane’s rapid intensification left forecasters stunned. When it comes to ...

Our cherished memories may be more resilient than previously thought. Long-term memories are stored in synapses, the connections between neurons. These structures sit on tiny protrusions called ...

Human beings have long told versions of the same warning: Be careful what you wish for. In Greek mythology, King Midas got exactly what he asked for, but at the cost of everything else he valued. In ...

Increasingly, companies are building humanoid robots that perform impressive athletic feats to mark the field’s progress. Now, Chinese robotics company Unitree says its new "Superman" robot can run 12 ...

As the race to harness quantum computing accelerates, governments are throwing their hats in the ring. The US Department of Energy is now aiming to build a fully functional, fault-tolerant quantum ...

"Gabe Weil of the Institute for Law and AI, in Massachusetts, proposes a system of strict liability. As with rules around keeping wild animals, it would assume that any harm is always the fault of the ...

A tiny robot developed by Japan's space agency operated autonomously on the moon for more than 100 minutes and sent a series of images back to Earth. Exploring the moon’s surface lays crucial ...

Building new enzymes is a labor of love. These proteins are the body's chemical workhorses, speeding up the reactions that make life possible. Researchers use them in gene editing and synthetic ...

Despite their brief history, computers and AI have fundamentally changed what we see, what we know, and what we do. Little is as important for the world’s future and our own lives as how this history ...

Scientists are exploring new algorithms, hardware, and computing methods to lower AI’s power demands. Strategic siting of data centers and other steps to increase green energy use are also key. As I ...

AI long ago surpassed humans at games like chess and Go. Now it's powering robots that can challenge top athletes. Peter Dürr could barely follow the table-tennis ball as it zoomed across the net, ...