Science Scientists Discover Thousands of New Microbial Species Thriving in the Mariana Trench The project explores how life adapts to extreme environments—and hopes to inspire new drugs or even ...

Robotics This Robotic Hand’s Electronic Skin Senses Exactly How Hard It Needs to Squeeze The hand can gently pick up anything from plastic cups to pineapples.

The small device contains a slurry of chemicals representing primary flavors and mixes them together to mimic the taste of coffee, lemonade, and more.

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Computing Sandia Fires Up a Brain-Like Supercomputer That Can Simulate 180 Million Neurons Brain-inspired computers could boost AI efficiency—a tantalizing prospect as the industry's energy bills ...

Thanks to increasingly efficient and affordable gene sequencing technologies, we can now chart our genetic blueprint in unprecedented detail. But what does each gene do? Of the roughly 20,000 genes ...

Personalized, brain-based tools could support learners being left behind due to natural differences in how their brains work.

Artificial Intelligence Meta’s New AI Translates Speech in Real Time Across More Than 100 Languages It's accurate and nearly as fast as expert human interpreters.

Researchers have been trying to build artificial synapses for years in the hope of getting close to the unrivaled computational performance of the human brain. A new approach has now managed to design ...

CRISPR is revolutionary. It’s also a total brute. The classic version of the gene editing wunderkind literally slices a gene to bits just to turn it off. It’s effective, yes. But it’s like putting an ...

The team constructed maps of roughly 5 billion synapses, outlining a timeline of their diversity and numbers in over 100 different brain regions with age.

Robotics These Tiny Liquid Robots Merge and Split Like ‘Terminator’ Made of teflon and water, the robots could one day shuttle drugs around the body.