Let a mouse nose around a house, and it will rapidly find food and form a strategy to return to it without getting caught. Given the same task, an AI would require millions of training examples and ...

Fungi are master engineers capable of building vast networks underground. Now, researchers have harnessed their capabilities to create a living building material that could be a sustainable ...

In late 2017, a mysterious object tore through our solar system at breakneck speed. Astronomers scrambled to observe the fast moving body using the world’s most powerful telescopes. It was found to be ...

How consciousness emerges in the brain is the ultimate mystery. Scientists generally agree that consciousness relies on multiple brain regions working in tandem. But the areas and neural connections ...

My nephew couldn’t stop playing Minecraft when he was seven years old. One of the most popular games ever, Minecraft is an open world in which players build terrain and craft various items and tools.

DESI's 3D map of our universe. The Earth is at the central vertex, and every dot is a galaxy. DESI collaboration and KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Proctor Share The great ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to understand what makes our brain different to our closest relatives. Our ...

Brain-computer interfaces are typically unwieldy, which makes using them on the move a non-starter. A new neural interface small enough to be attached between the user’s hair follicles keeps working ...

Sign up to receive top stories about groundbreaking technologies and visionary thinkers from SingularityHub. 100% Free. No Spam. Unsubscribe any time. SingularityHub ...

Theodora Ogden LLM MSc is the 2022 Fellow at the Interplanetary Initiative at Arizona State University. She is currently on secondment from her role as a defense and security analyst at RAND Europe, ...

Chris Carter is an analyst at RAND Europe. Working within the Science and Emerging Technology team, his focus is space policy. He specializes in quantitative data analysis and data visualization, and ...

Billy Bryan is the evaluation and research leader in the Science and Emerging Technology team at RAND Europe. He has seven years of experience in studies and evaluations with specific focuses on space ...