The AI builds a world model of Minecraft without human input and “imagines” future scenarios to improve its decision making.

The number of scientific papers that rely on AI has quadrupled, and the scope of problems AI can tackle is expanding by the day.

In some situations, our sense of time expands. We slip outside our normal consciousness, and into a different time-world. Why does this happen?

Life on Earth relies on molecular building blocks to make DNA and proteins. Scientists have long wondered how prevalent these precursors were at the birth of our solar system. A sample of dust and ...

Instead of being invented by different people independently, many key inventions were discovered once then shared.

Dr. Duxin Sun is the associate dean for research and the Charles Walgreen Jr. Professor of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Michigan. He serves as ...

Scientists just unveiled the world’s tiniest pacemaker. Smaller than a grain of rice and controlled by light shone through the skin, the pacemaker generates power and squeezes the heart’s muscles ...

With their bright blue bases, yellow gears, and exposed circuit tops, the 3D-printed robots look like a child’s toys. Yet as a roughly two-dozen-member collective, they can flow around obstacles ...

A new bioprinter uses ultrasound to non-invasively 3D print tissues, biosensors, and medication depots deep in the body.

White Castle was the first restaurant chain to significantly invest in Flippy, piloting the robotic assistant in 2020.

A paralyzed woman can again communicate with the outside world thanks to a wafer-thin disk capturing speech signals in her brain. An AI translates these electrical buzzes into text and, using ...