Ebay's Founder Is Giving Away $10 Million to Support AI That Is Good and Not Evil

eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman will each donate $10 million to the Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Fund.

Israel builds world's largest solar tower

The Ashalim project, which is being constructed in the Negev desert, will have four different plots, three of which are being built in the first phase. The solar tower is the centerpiece at 250 meters high.

Imax plan for VR pods in cinemas around the world may be the boost the technology needs

The high cost of equipment seems to be a hurdle the public won't pass, but location-based VR offers new opportunities for manufacturers of gear, creators of content and distributors

Learning From the Outside In With an ECO Education

Humans are a part of nature in every moment, in every place, and recognizing this puts a different lens on how you interact with the world’s ecological and social communities.

Short-lived greenhouse gases cause centuries of sea-level rise

Through warming effects, methane and other gases impact rising seas long after leaving the atmosphere

A tech giant Begins Construction On $3 Billion Electric Car Factory In China

The Chinese tech giant LeEco has begun construction on its planned $3 billion electric car manufacturing facility in China.

Cultural differences may leave their mark on DNA

A San Francisco, US - led study has identified signatures of ethnicity in the genome that appear to reflect an ethnic group's shared culture and environment, rather than their common genetic ancestry.

Two Stars Are on a Crash Course and Will Explode as a Red Nova

Mark your calendars: In 2022, a rare "red nova" will appear in the sky, according to an unprecedented and ultra-precise stellar prediction.

ESOcast Light: VLT to search for planets around Alpha Centauri

ESO has signed an agreement with the Breakthrough Initiatives to adapt the Very Large Telescope instrumentation in Chile to conduct a search for planets in the nearby star system Alpha Centauri.

Researchers design one of the strongest, lightest materials known

Porous, 3-D forms of graphene developed at MIT can be 10 times as strong as steel but much lighter.

Wind power now runs all the electric passenger trains in the Netherlands

Dutch railway company NS announced its entire electric train fleet is running on 100-percent wind power as of January 1, 2017, ushering in a new era of green transportation.

Schools in China begin installing greenhouse-like anti-smog domes

Several schools in northern China are installing huge domes where children can play and exercise during recess to protect them from the smog outside.

Your Smartphone's Next Big Trick? To Make You Healthier Than Ever

Can we repurpose the capacities of smartphones to improve health diagnostics on a global scale? Can we provide fast and reliable health diagnostics in areas with limited health infrastructure or health professionals?

No Job Is Safe, But These Skills Will Always Be Valued in the Workplace

In a world where these labor cycles are accelerating, the question is: What skills do we teach the next generation so they can keep pace?

This Device Can Save Thousands of People From Bleeding Out

The XSTAT injector is in its final stages of approval and it has the ability to save thousands of lives from blood loss.