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Shutterstock and OpenAI have come up with one possible solution to the...
Gone may be the days of culturally viral stock photoshoots and accidental stock photo celebrities. The stock photos of the future may not require human models, or even human photographers. On October...
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Watch this penny-sized soft robot paddle with hydrogel fins
Science Robotics Engineers have long been interested in making water-faring robots. We’ve seen robots fashioned after tuna, suckerfish, octopuses and more. Now a new type of aquabot is swimming onto...
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Meta’s AI could shake up how we study protein structures
Argonne National Lab / Flickr Proteins are an essential part of keeping living organisms up and running. They help repair cells, clear out waste, and relay correspondences from one end of the body to...
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Google’s AI has a long way to go before writing the next great novel
David Klein / Unsplash Artificial intelligence has come a long way since the 1950s, and it has taken on an impressive array of tasks. It can solve math problems, detect natural disasters, identify...
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This AI can harness sound to reveal the structure of unseen spaces
Deposit Photos Imagine you’re walking through a series of rooms, circling closer and closer to a sound source, whether it’s music playing from a speaker or a person talking. The noise you hear as you...
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IBM’s biggest quantum chip yet could help solve the trickiest math problems
The new flex wiring in IBM's quantum cryostat. Connie Zhou / IBM Quantum computers, though delicate and finicky in their present forms, promise to excel at a specific set of tasks. For one, they...
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Self-driving cars are turning into hyperlocal weather stations
Waymo Weather phenomena can impact our travels, and self-driving cars are no different from us in that sense. Inclement conditions can create challenges for autonomous vehicles. Reflections from wet...
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How engineers taught a manta ray-inspired robot the butterfly stroke
Yin Lab@NCSU / YouTube Making a robot that can swim well can be surprisingly difficult. Part of this is due to the fact that the physics of how organisms move in the water is often complicated, and...
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How Spotify trained an AI to transcribe music
Parsoa Khorsand / Unsplash Before electronic music became an umbrella category for a distinct genre of modern music, the term referred to a technique for producing music that involved transfering...
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Meta’s new AI can use deceit to conquer a board game world
Aslı Yılmaz / Unsplash Computers are getting pretty good at a growing roster of arcade and board games, including chess, Go, Pong, and Pac-Man. Machines might even change how video games get developed...
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What this jellyfish-like sea creature can teach us about underwater vehicles...
NOAA Photo Library / Flickr Sea creatures have developed many creative ways of getting around their watery worlds. Some have tails for swimming, some have flippers for gliding, and others propel...
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Scientists modeled a tiny wormhole on a quantum computer
inqnet/A. Mueller (Caltech) Physicists, mathematicians, astronomers, and even filmmakers have long been fascinated by the concept of a wormhole: an unpredictable and oftentimes volatile phenomenon...
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Magnetic microrobots could zap the bacteria out of your cold glass of milk
Aleksey Melkomukov / Unsplash A perfect mix of chemistry and engineering has produced microscopic robots that function like specialized immune cells—capable of pursuing pathogenic culprits with a...
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Watch this little drummer bot stay on beat
IEEE Spectrum / YouTube Humanoid robots have long been a passion project for tech giants and experimental engineers. And these days, it seems like everyone wants one. But for machines, social skills...
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This fossil-sorting robot can identify millions-year-old critters for climate...
Foraminiferas are tiny marine organisms with intricate shells. Josef Reischig / Wikimedia Czech Republic Tiny marine fossils called foraminifera, or forams, have been instrumental in guiding...
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Why bills to totally ban TikTok in the US might do more harm than good
Lawmakers are concerned over security and privacy issues with the popular app TikTok. Solen Feyissa / Unsplash Talks around banning TikTok have been going on since the Trump administration. Over the...
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Monitoring volcanoes that could explode? A drone is on it.
Volcano eruptions can be scary if you don't know they're coming. Izabela Kraus / Unsplash Volcano eruptions are dramatic, messy events. And worse, they’re often unpredictable. Despite humanity’s best...
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Only 4 people have been able to solve this 1934 mystery puzzle. Can AI do...
"Cain's Jawbone" has recently been popularized thanks to TikTok. DEPOSIT PHOTOS In the 1930s, British crossword writer Edward Powys Mathers created a “fiendishly difficult literary puzzle” in the form...
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This AI is no doctor, but its medical diagnoses are pretty spot on
Can AI diagnose medical conditions better than a human?. DEPOSIT PHOTOS Various research groups have been teasing the idea of an AI doctor for the better half of the past decade. In late December,...
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The ‘Doomsday’ glacier is fracturing and changing. AI can help us understand...
Thwaites Glacier. NASA The Doomsday glacier has been on everyone’s minds lately. And it should be. With estimates that by 2100, sea levels will rise by 10 feet due mostly to meltwater from it, there’s...
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