Can animals be made without sperm or eggs? The answer could upend our ideas about what life is. Who says we can’t still build ...

Synthesia's new technology is impressive but raises big questions about a world where we increasingly can’t tell what’s real.

Emily Baker hopes her designs can make it cheaper and easier to build stuff in disaster zones or outer space. As a child, Emily Baker loved to make paper versions of things: cameras, a spaceship ...

We need more research, including outdoor experiments, to make better-informed decisions about such climate interventions. The public debate over whether we should consider intentionally altering ...

Some time before the first dinosaurs, two supercontinents, Laurasia and Gondwana, collided, forcing molten rock out from the ...

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And it’s scary how little control we have over how it’s used. This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign ...

Open AI’s CEO says we won’t need new hardware or lots more training data to get there. A number of moments from my brief sit-down with Sam Altman brought the OpenAI CEO’s worldview into ...

Louisiana’s southwestern coastline faces some of the most severe climate predictions in the US. Can a government-led project build the area up and out of crisis? There is more than one way to ...

Plus: AI companies don't even need a product to raise serious capital these days This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in ...

Researchers are using generative AI and other techniques to teach robots new skills—including tasks they could perform in homes. Silent. Rigid. Clumsy. Henry and Jane Evans are used to awkward ...