Benjamin Beck, an authority on "tooling," offers a state-of-the art clarification of this fascinating behavior and why it's ...

The generative world engine is creating unique edge-case scenarios for Waymo self-driving vehicles to navigate around and ...

Researchers have studied rat and mouse whiskers, but these key organs for elephants have been largely overlooked.

Pachyderm whiskers are more flexible at the tip than the base, allowing elephants to complete delicate tasks with their incredibly strong trunks ...

An elephant’s trunk looks rugged, but it is also one of the most sensitive touch organs in the animal kingdom. New research reveals that this sensitivity is partly powered by whiskers whose material ...

Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave ...

Archaeologists unearthed an elephant bone alongside catapult stones in a discovery that brings ancient war to life.

Last year, the Wall Street Journal won a Pulitzer for an investigation that used artificial intelligence. To map out the ...

Indonesia has officially banned elephant rides, bringing an end to the decades-long tourist activity that’s become synonymous ...

An elephant's trunk looks rugged, but it is also one of the most sensitive touch organs in the animal kingdom. New research reveals that this ...

This is just one of the scenarios that Waymo can simulate in the “hyper realistic” virtual world that it has just created with help from Google’s DeepMind. Waymo’s World M ...

Google's Waymo is leveraging DeepMind's Genie 3 AI model to prepare its autonomous vehicles for challenging driving scenarios by creating realistic digital environments.