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Con artistry is one of the world's oldest and most innovative professions, and it may soon have a new target. Research suggests artificial intelligence may be uniquely susceptible to tricksters, and as its influence in t...

Until recently, microbiology has been a science done largely in petri dishes, looking at a few million copies of one organism and asking simple questions trying to suss out how it'll behave in the wider world. What does ...

Even as the power of our modern computers grows exponentially, biological systems--like our brains--remain the ultimate learning machines. By finding materials that act in ways similar to the mechanisms that biology uses...

Common sense is prevailing in human space exploration, and the moon is back as the place we need to colonise before a riskier trip to Mars, says Paul Marks

Over the last few years, researchers have demonstrated that light can serve as a spin-current generator, creating currents of angular momentum, in optical nanostructures known as plasmonic absorbers, opening up a new bra...

Water is everywhere. But it's not the same everywhere. When frozen under extreme pressures and temperatures, ice takes on a range of complex crystalline structures.

Constellations illustrates the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics--with a love story. The play Constellations begins with two people, Roland and Marianne, meeting for the first time. It's a short scene, and ...

In an interview at Singularity University's Global Summit in San Francisco, Andy Billings spoke to us about how he's bridging the gap between the creative and business sides of Electronic Arts, one of the world's leading...

Arguments over the causes of the gender gap in STEM jobs rage on. It's not due to hormones or innate brain differences, says Lise Eliot on Ada Lovelace Day

Google's parent company wants to use its Project Loon tech to help restore the island's hurricane-damaged mobile networks. But is it charity or business strategy?

Why are some birds' wings darker on top? Engineers may have found the answer while trying to design a biomimetic drone that goes further on less fuel

JILA physicists have for the first time used their spinning molecules technique to measure the "roundness" of the electron, confirming the leading results from another group and suggesting that more precise assessments a...

A team led by Caltech recently solved a decades-old materials science mystery by tracking down the origin of entropy in metallic glasses.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have developed a new, more efficient permanent magnet that removes the deficiencies of conventional samarium and neodymium magnets.

It's been a good year for conspiracy theorists, so they say.

A pale, slender creature was found in a cave with the help of smelly cheese.

Artificial intelligence has been trained to use aerospace simulation software to design a device that may ultimately improve dialysis for patients.

Properties, sources and uses of the element neptunium.

A new way of storing hearts outside the body for a day or more could bring an end to people dying while awaiting an organ for a heart transplant

Using flexible conducting polymers and novel circuitry patterns printed on paper, researchers have demonstrated proof-of-concept wearable thermoelectric generators that can harvest energy from body heat to power simple b...

Scientists in a research group led by Constantia Alexandrou, professor of physics at the University of Cyprus and the Cyprus Institute, made a crucial step towards solving a three-decades-old puzzle: They have successful...

Think carefully before you get your DNA tested: you're selling as well as buying