Science of the Future

To understand the benefits that artificial intelligence can bring to the world of human medicine, consider the case of Ayako ...

I wanted to look at the case against Mars; three reasons humans should leave the red planet alone. … [T]he first argument ...

There are fears that tend to come up when people talk about futuristic artificial intelligence — say, one that could ...

Start-up company Memphis Meats says that in the future, consumer meat products won’t start in a pasture or a feedlot. Rather, they ...

Ever since the appearance of the power loader in the sci-fi classic Aliens, the idea that powered exoskeletons could let workers ...

As excited or terrified as we might be by the latest advances in robot technology, they’re still far from being ...

There is a pressing need for novel control techniques in agricultural weed management. Direct genetic control of agricultural pests encompasses ...

The next generation farmhand in Japan's aging rural heartland may be a drone. For several months, developers and farmers in ...

Most people think the genetics revolution is primarily about healthcare. But what's really at play is the evolutionary trajectory of ...

As the problems caused by algorithmic bias have bubbled to the surface, experts have proposed all sorts of solutions on how to make ...

Following a major blow in Californian courts recently, widely-used herbicide glyphosate has continued to take a battering, as industry professionals ...

Even though we still struggle with finding a satisfactory definition of life, that doesn’t mean that we can’t think about ways that ...

In May, [startup Beta Bionics] received Food and Drug Administration approval to start clinical trials on what it calls a “bionic pancreas ...

There's a potentially huge technology risk on the horizon [for] fertilizer companies  ....  next-generation biotech products called microbials .... Microbials ...

Are we too vulnerable to asteroid strikes and other cataclysms to stick with our single planet? … Frédéric Marin is ...

When the robot revolution arrives, we all know the plot: Smarter machines will supersede human intelligence and outwit us, enslave ...

Synthetic biology could solve many problems that Mars colonization brings up ...

Case Study 1: The Sharing Project … [Jinghui Zhang wondered] how much faster cancer research could move if data sets ...

A new machine-learning system is as good as the best human experts at detecting eye problems and referring patients for ...

Oakland-based nonprofit AI4All [will] expand its outreach to young underrepresented minorities and women with a $1 million grant from Google.org, the technology ...

NASA is now preparing for a human mission to Mars, but if our descendants ever shrug off their terrestrial bonds, ...

Whether they are amphibians, mammals, birds, or something else, animals use metabolic depression to thrive in places where they otherwise ...

Here’s the conundrum with corporate online learning: there are so many classes available from sites like Coursera, edX, and Udacity that companies ...

CNBC spoke with some experts to see what they think are the five scariest potential future scenarios for AI. A common ...

Proposals to combat climate change by reflecting the sun’s rays back into space would cause widespread crop failure, cancelling out ...

Fusarium head blight is a devastating fungal disease affecting wheat and barley crops worldwide. According to the American Phytopathological Society, ...

Farming drones from China may soon be buzzing across British fields as a result of a new partnership between Chinese ...