Brain prostheses sound eerie, but they’re actually quite useful. More and more, implants are being planted into the skulls of people worldwide in order to record their encephalic activities, or…

A new treatment has successfully changed the color of people's eyes in Latin America, but the procedure isn't approved in the U.S. yet. For years, a California-based company called Stroma…

China is building more than a third of the world’s nuclear reactors currently under construction, and has plans to triple its nuclear power capacity by 2020. That has some observers worried about…

NASA scientists studying the origin of life have reproduced uracil, cytosine, and thymine, three key components of our hereditary material, in the laboratory. They discovered that an ice sample containing…

GOOGLE SAYS ITS new wireless service will operate on a much smaller scale than the Verizons and the AT&Ts of the world, providing a new way for relatively few people…

THE dawn of the planet of the smartphones came in January 2007, when Steve Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, in front of a rapt audience of Apple acolytes, brandished a slab…

Microsoft Research has outdone itself again when it comes to a trendy type of artificial intelligence called deep learning. In a new academic paper, employees in the Asian office of…

A new robot just discovered that a mixture of elements that can fight cancer can also treat malaria. Will artificial intelligence be able to unearth life-saving drugs quicker and more…

Artificially intelligent online tools like The Grid will replace a lot of bread-and-butter web design jobs, says Tom Church ofFullScream. How does the digital design industry adapt and fight back?…

By 2029, computers will be able to understand our language, learn from experience and outsmart even the most intelligent humans, according to Google’s director of engineering Ray Kurzweil. One of…