Orbital data centers and factories will need a lot of energy. A Florida startup hopes to deliver it with lasers. Ambitious plans for orbital data centers and factories face a major problem—getting ...

Forecasts of the impact of artificial intelligence range from the apocalyptic to the utopian. An October 2025 report from Senate Democrats, for example, predicted AI will destroy millions of US jobs.

Quantum computers could eventually solve scientific problems beyond the reach of conventional supercomputers, but today’s machines are too error-prone for practical work. The US Department of Energy ...

Commercial space stations are rapidly moving from concept to reality. As NASA prepares for the International Space Station’s retirement around 2030, a burgeoning private orbital industry could step ...

Tailoring cancer treatments is a science and an art. The same type of tumor can behave very differently from one person to the next, and a drug that works for one patient may fail in another. The ...

We're fixated on the intelligence of single agents. The more profound challenge is what happens when millions of them interact at scale. There is a temptation to divide the future of AI into two ...

Earlier this month, artificial intelligence researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic after just four months. In an announcement on X, he stated: "The people building AI earnestly believe that it ...

The Milky Way Was Rewired by a Cataclysmic Collision Billions of Years Ago. Now It Is on Course for Another. An ‘AI Legal Team’ Has Won Its First Case. It’s a Rare Victory for Access to Justice. Long ...

As millions of people were coming down from the excitement of the FIFA World Cup Final at the start of last week, a different kind of excitement was building within the mathematical community. Levent ...

My nephew couldn’t stop playing Minecraft when he was seven years old. One of the most popular games ever, Minecraft is an open world in which players build terrain and craft various items and tools.

The prospect of a sustained human presence beyond Earth orbit is rapidly shifting from science fiction to a near-term reality. NASA has announced an ambitious plan to build a permanent lunar base ...

For most of artificial intelligence’s history, many researchers expected that building truly capable systems would need a long series of scientific breakthroughs: revolutionary algorithms, deep ...