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

What happens when a kid’s robot best friend dies? When Xander first met Moxie, she taught him how to calm down when he was anxious or mad. Six years later, she mostly watches him play Minecraft and ...

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

The company is imposing new guardrails on its police tech after reports that officers are abusing it and cities are dropping contracts. But the changes leave glaring loopholes. The police-tech giant ...

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 company, along with others, is pursuing a new paradigm for cramming more transistors on chips—building up. IBM has built a new prototype chip with around 100 billion transistors on an area the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...