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Ray Kurzweil is an inventor, thinker, and futurist famous for forecasting the pace of technology and predicting the world of tomorrow. In this video, Kurzweil discusses AI ethics and risk. Films and books have long descr...

A team of engineers at Caltech has discovered how to use computer-chip manufacturing technologies to create the kind of reflective materials that make safety vests, running shoes, and road signs appear shiny in the dark.

High praise was heaped on Volvo when it said it would stop making cars powered only by petrol or diesel. This is no revolution, says Olive Heffernan

Researchers have identified altered expression of a gene called ANK1, which only recently has been associated with memory robbing Alzheimer's disease, in specific cells in the brain. Following sequencing of each of these...

Adolescent girls receiving a wide range of medical care in the Emergency Department (ED) are receptive to receiving information about preventing pregnancy.

Using an automated screening test, researchers have invented an all-chemical replacement for the confusing, even dangerous materials, now used to grow stem cells.

Women and girls with autism may face greater challenges with real world planning, organization and other daily living skills, according to a new study.

Asteroids could have started life as sludgy balls of mud instead of tough rocks, which may explain how rocky planets came to be

The Saraswati supercluster of 400 galaxies could help us understand the physics governing the whole universe

Important biomarkers have been found in extracellular vesicles in dogs with myxomatous mitral valve disease and congestive heart failure. This is the first biomarker discovery based on extracellular vesicles in a veterin...

A study involving 65 people who live in and around São José do Rio Preto (São Paulo State, Brazil), where dengue is endemic and there was a particularly rapid outbreak of Zika during the 2016 epidemic, show that prior...

Global malaria elimination funding is declining at a time when it remains crucial to eliminating the disease worldwide, according to a study.

A group of potential substitutes for bisphenol A (BPA) have been identified that lack the adverse effects typically associated with BPA, report scientists.

New calculations by an evolutionary biologist suggest that no more than 25 percent of the human genome is functional. That is in stark contrast to suggestions by scientists with the ENCODE project that as much as 80 perc...

An enzyme that plays a crucial role in the degeneration of axons, the threadlike portions of a nerve cell that transmit signals within the nervous system, has now been identified by researchers. Axon loss occurs in all n...

Should the leopard cub survive its unusual upbringing, would it behave more like a lion or a leopard?

The first sign of aliens might not be microbes or radio signals but fossilised imprints or excrement left on the solid surfaces of Mars or Titan

Are North Korean rockets capable of reaching American shores?

A scientist who spends his days developing artificial intelligence systems, reveals what about AI keeps him up at night.

A neural network trained to rate how human-like an AI is could turn Alexa and Siri into much more convincing conversation partners

Nature doesn't like having interfaces--this is why bubbles like to be round, and the surface of a pond settles to flat as long as it's not disturbed. These trends minimize the total amount of interface (or surface) that ...

Throughout the universe, supersonic shock waves propel cosmic rays and supernova particles to velocities near the speed of light. The most high-energy of these astrophysical shocks occur too far outside the solar system ...