Scientists have successfully connected living human brain cells to a computer system and taught them to interact with the classic video game DOOM. The strange experiment marks a new step toward ...

Researchers at OpenAI and Ginkgo Bioworks showed that an AI model working with an autonomous lab can design and iterate real ...

New laws are beginning to restrict what users can access, download, and even run on their own computers. By creating a system that bypasses these limitations, this experiment exposes how control over ...

An international collaboration, including Northwestern University, has reached a critical milestone in the search for dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up about 85% of all matter in the ...

Machines have finally passed the Turing Test, the mid-century thought experiment designed to see if a computer could fool us into thinking it was human. In an evaluation last year, 73% of respondents ...

Human brain cells are now interacting with computer systems, learning to play video games like Doom. Researchers have ...

An AI agent reads its own source code, forms a hypothesis for improvement (such as changing a learning rate or an architecture depth), modifies the code, runs the experiment, and evaluates the results ...

Instrument maker Roland —  known for its synthesizers and drum machines, among other things – has launched a new ...

Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there are still huge hurdles to overcome ...

PART I OF V The Great Digital Bet Cast your mind back to the late 1990s. Technology evangelists, in government, in schools, in Silicon Valley boardrooms, were making a very confident prediction: the ...

In a greenhouse on the outskirts of the Netherlands’ flower-growing regions, rows of tulips bloom in a climate controlled not ...

Carbon forms the graphite in pencils, the diamonds in jewelry and the molecules that make up every living thing. But under ...