Self-driving cars have made impressive progress. They can follow lanes, keep their distance, and navigate familiar routes with ease. However, despite years of development, they still struggle with one ...

A team led by Professor Jochen Feldmann at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich has directly watched a polaron, a quasiparticle formed when an electron distorts the surrounding crystal lattice, come ...

Intention, transparency and human accountability are key metrics for ethical artificial intelligence deployment, according to experts on a recent CivicLabs panel.

In the oceans and on land, scientists are discovering rare, transitional organisms that bridge the gap between Earth’s simplest cells and today’s complex ones.

The bony facial protrusion might be an evolutionary byproduct that resulted from changes to other parts of the skull, according to a new study ...

Survival of the fittest. Nature red in tooth and claw. The common view of natural selection is based solely on the individual: A trait allows an organism to out-compete its rivals and is thus passed ...

President Ramaphosa’s 2026 State of the Nation Address highlighted concrete housing interventions, from releasing ...

Based on these challenges, a comprehensive reassessment of how AI should be deployed in electrocatalysis has become urgently ...

Human noise alters bird behavior, raises stress levels, and reduces reproductive success - but reducing noise could help reverse the damage.

Researchers have built a realistic human mini spinal cord in the lab and used it to simulate traumatic injury. The model reproduced key damage seen in real spinal cord injuries, including inflammation ...

As AI models advance rapidly, experts warn of widespread job displacement while others call it 'doomerism.' What's the ...

This argument aligns with the so-called hard problem of consciousness, which asks why subjective experience exists at all. The author maintains that increasing computational complexity does not ...