'No more tears': Former senator Ben Sasse talks frankly about his terminal cancer diagnosis

Sasse, who served Nebraska in the U.S. Senate for eight years, sat down with The New York Times in an interview to discuss ...

Spark creator bags computing gong for making big data a little bit smaller

When Zaharia started work on Spark around 2010, analyzing "big data" generally meant using MapReduce, the Java-based ...

I tried using Meta AI with Muse Spark and felt the influence of Facebook on AI chatbots

Muse Spark makes Meta AI the most online AI yet ...

AI can design and run thousands of lab experiments without human hands. Humanity isn’t ready for the new risks this brings to biology

Artificial intelligence is rapidly learning to autonomously design and run biological experiments, but the systems intended ...

A 1.9 billion-year-old bedrock will soon house the world’s first permanent nuclear waste site

The world-first facility for permanently disposing spent nuclear fuel is set to begin operations in Finland after decades of ...
Tech Xplore

Origami-inspired robot built from printable polymers uses electric current to move

With their ability to shapeshift and manipulate delicate objects, soft robots could work as medical implants, deliver drugs ...
Nature

Using AI to make healthcare more human

Japan is at the forefront in many areas of medical care, including state-of-the-art technologies and treatments. Yet its healthcare system is under stress. With a rapidly ageing population and a ...

An enzyme produced by fungus may replace chemicals in the paper industry

A trio of researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP) and São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Brazil has developed a ...