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The problem with testing a self-driving artificial intelligence is that things can be very, very messy if things go wrong.As with...

America, China, Russia, etc. might need to make room outside the Earth's atmosphere, because the Aussies plan to head out soon.In...

Everybody is psyched about 3-D printing their own fidget spinners and tiny plastic skulls, but people are already grumbling about...

If 2017's Ghost in the Shell made one good decision, it was including Wearable Media in its promotions. The company nails the weird,...

How much do you trust modern robotics? Would you, for example, be happy with letting a robot implant false teeth into your mouth?...

Sometimes, great discoveries don't take lots of research, experimentation, and effort. Gluing together a few commonplace (or not so...

Military gunships have enough guns already, but what they don't have enough of is frickin' lasers. That gross oversight may be fixed...

For someone who's dead certain that artificial intelligence will one day lead to a Skynet-style robot apocalypse that will wipe out...

Robot security guards aren't necessarily a perfected technology just yet. Among the stories of robots awkwardly tripping in...

As impressive as modern robot designs might be, humanity's attempts to build artificial shells for our computers still pale in...

These days, kids are growing up in a world with X-ray vision drones, cute personal robots, 3-D printed Mario Karts, and giant mechs....

One of the next stamps on humanity's galactic passport is Mars, but before we can get an astronaut there, we have to make sure they're...

There's no denying that fossils are pretty cool. From the humble swirly ammonite to the towering T-Rex, there's plenty to get excited...

Once upon a time, television audiences of the 1970s marveled at The Six Million Dollar Man, essentially a superhero cut from the...

Bomb disposal is one of the most frightening, high-pressure, high-risk jobs out there. It's as life-threatening as it is intricate and...

Eric Ladizinsky's introduction at Worlds Fair Nano in NYC was prefaced with an interesting bit of trivia: Ladizinsky has watched every...

As humans, we have both learned and innate behaviors. While some few, basic behaviors come to us instinctively, many more are learned...

VR is finally here, but where is it headed? That was the question asked at Worlds Fair Nano NY's Future of VR panel, which brought...

As of this morning, the Cassini spacecraft is no more. Its 20-year-long mission to explore Saturn and its moons, including Titan and...

R.I.P. Cassini, the hard-working space probe that's given us a far better understanding of Saturn and its moons.Following thirteen...