The Allen Institute for Brain Science has added the first data from human nerve cells to a publicly available database for researchers to explore and understand the building blocks of the human brain.
Single unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAVs) directed by joysticks, radio controllers, and mobile phones are already accomplishing a variety of useful tasks. But using multiple drones requires multiple human operators, and this presents a coordination problem.
Physicists have a new scenario of the universe's expansion at the Big Bang that may explain why our universe has three large spatial dimensions.
Peak globalization could lead to an economy that puts people first while building a more economically and environmentally sustainable future.
A Dutch organization has just announced plans to salvage plastic pollution from the ocean and use it to build highways in Rotterdam.
In a report entitled The Urban Bio-Loop a company proposes to transform food waste into low-cost and eco-friendly materials.
Pollution kills more people each year than wars, disasters and hunger, also causing huge economic damage, a study says. Almost half the total deaths occur in just two countries.
Tesla has won its first contract with Vestas, the world’s largest wind turbine maker, to supply its Powerpack batteries for the world’s first project to combine solar power, wind power, and Tesla’s storage technology.
Do social pressures cause the evolution of big brains? The debate is ongoing.
An Australian-US team has devised a way to make a broad class of atomically thin metal oxides, including 2D versions of materials already in use by the electronics industry. Their secret is a room temperature liquid metal.
E-cigarettes appear to trigger unique immune responses as well as the same ones that cigarettes trigger that can lead to lung disease, according to a new research.
According to a new analysis, the number of undiscovered and potentially-hazardous asteroids is lower than previously thought.
Thanks to reinforced, pre-stressed concrete and 3D-printing techniques, the bridge (which is primarily intended for cyclists) can safely bear the weight of 40 trucks. In total, the structure took just three months to build.
The total flying insect biomass decreased by more than 75 percent over 27 years in protected areas, according to a study .
Researchers say they have constructed an AI program that can teach itself to play the ancient strategy game at a level far beyond humans.
