AI companion toys for neurodivergent children promise connection and therapy, but can they deliver for the long haul?

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The global gold rush for underground stores of hydrogen fuel continues. But researchers are still sorting out how much of the stuff there is.

A researcher was there to unveil the Human Cell Atlas, an ambitious project that aimed to map every cell in the human body.

AI agents that can model the human process of research will accelerate discoveries in science. Every few decades, someone ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch at the end of August, is uniquely well-placed to help us spot any ...

The Pacific Ocean gets a lot of sunlight, warming up the water’s surface. In normal conditions the trade winds, caused by ...

Jeff Dean is leaving to start a new AI company After 27 years at Google, the company’s former chief scientist is launching ...

AI agents can instead model the iterative, highly contingent process of actual research. While tools like AlphaFold apply a ...

When we set out to talk to kids about artificial intelligence, we thought we knew what we’d hear. We expected some to tell us they were using it to cheat a little, the way Millennials and Gen Xers ...

But cloning has multiple uses, ranging from the cool to the outright creepy. We can’t talk about cloning without mentioning Dolly, the celebrity sheep born in 1996 and the first mammal successfully ...