Africa is still early in the process of adopting AI technologies. But researchers say the continent is uniquely hospitable to ...

Inadequate funding, infrastructure issues, and fights over regulation mean the sector's future remains uncertain.

I’ve spent most of this year being pretty convinced that Donald Trump would be the 47th president of the United States. Even ...

His return to the White House puts the world’s second-largest climate polluter on an emissions trajectory we can’t afford.

Researchers are working on technology that could follow NASA’s Europa Clipper mission and hunt for life in the ocean of ...

Seven states are set to implement laws supporting abortion access, but the future of reproductive rights in the US is unclear.

Jennifer Doudna, the co-developer of CRISPR, says there’s a “coming revolution” in climate-adapted crops and animals.

Donald Trump’s decisive victory is a stunning setback for the fight against climate change. The Republican president-elect’s ...

Rapid advances in applying artificial intelligence to simulations in physics and chemistry have some people questioning whether we will even need quantum computers at all.

In late October, News Corp filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI, a popular AI search engine. At first glance, this might ...

The US, which is currently the world’s second-largest greenhouse-gas emitter and has added more climate pollution to the atmosphere than any other nation, is now very unlikely to hit Biden’s 2030 goal ...

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