It will be essential for us as a species to maintain superiority, but [...] we are not the pinnacle of creation,” he says.

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Archaeology is having a moment, thanks to technology like LiDAR, satellite mapping and artificial intelligence.

Of course, using up all that brain energy can work up an appetite. And fortunately, long gone are the days of snackless ...

The universe is ready for its close-up. Breathtaking images of thousands of galaxies taken by a 609-megapixel camera have ...

NASA astronauts Sunita "Suni" Williams and Barry "Butch" Wilmore are finally back on Earth. The two spent more than eight ...

As agricultural research continues to become more entwined with technology, smart farming—a phrase that encompasses research ...

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) scares many people as neural networks, modeled after the human brain, are so complex ...

Many environmentalists have argued that AI should be significantly curtailed for these reasons. Perhaps unexpectedly, Earth scientists—researchers who study the environment to make life-saving ...

I hadn’t asked my dining companions anything I considered to be extremely faux pas: simply whether they thought today’s AI could someday achieve human-like intelligence (i.e. AGI) or beyond.

Columbia engineers have created a powerful 3D photonic-electronic chip that could overcome one of AI’s biggest hardware ...

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...