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News, research analysis and evidence-based explanation. 20 stories in this section.
A new Physics World Weekly podcast episode offers guidance on building a "unicorn career" in science and technology, alongside a look at the humorous and unexpected failures of artificial intelligence.
Conservation professionals from 11 African countries gathered at a South African nature reserve to train with thermal drones, part of a growing technology revolution in wildlife protection across the continent.
A grassroots movement against large datacenter projects is drawing together Democrats, Republicans, and independents in rural communities, reflecting broader frustration with the influence of tech billionaires over local decisions.
Researchers have developed sub-centimeter robots with no moving parts that levitate and fly using sound waves, a breakthrough that could lead to new applications in medicine and engineering.
Researchers have developed a new type of artificial intelligence that uses a fresh approach to reasoning, claiming it costs up to 11 times less to run than a leading OpenAI …
The Trump administration has proposed a rule that would remove requirements for datacenters to publicly disclose air pollution, potentially allowing emission permits to be issued without public notice. Health advocates …
A Christian platform can add religious and legal duties to a conversation, but those protections are not substitutes for end-to-end encryption, metadata minimization and a published threat model.
The summer battlefield in Ukraine showed how FPV density, mid-range strike drones and electronic warfare are replacing the old idea of a narrow front line.
Two proposed datacentres in England could emit 4.5 million tonnes of CO2 annually, exceeding ExxonMobil's UK emissions and threatening climate targets.
At the 2026 Small Satellite Conference, Icarus Robotics CEO Ethan Barajas discusses how robotic systems are poised to transform satellite servicing and in-space construction, reducing the need for astronauts to …
The unmanned systems displayed in Kyiv are part of a rapidly scaling robotics ecosystem built around logistics, evacuation, engineering and remotely operated battlefield tasks.
Security researchers report a surge in AI-powered hacking activity, with large language models being used to automate attacks, craft convincing phishing lures, and exploit vulnerabilities at unprecedented speed.
The technology links an authenticated card in a vault to a redeemable digital token, increasing transfer speed while leaving a critical custody problem offchain.
The €46.5 million project is co-financed by Ukraine and sits within a broader shift toward gas-engine distributed generation designed to add flexible capacity near demand.
Investors are valuing more than a chatbot: they are betting that rapidly expanding enterprise use of Claude can support the infrastructure costs of frontier AI. Anthropic’s public filing should eventually …
The Air Force wants an AI-powered interface over roughly 60 engineering and maintenance sources, with 95% source coverage and 99% search-accuracy targets. The design keeps authoritative records outside the model.
The platform is introducing an identity-level label while retaining track-level AI credits, a two-layer approach to synthetic music and artist authenticity.
A farmer in China reportedly lost about 10 hectares of sesame after following a general AI pesticide recipe, while researchers are building domain-specific models to prevent such errors.
Anthropic is using two different technical approaches: model-level text marking and signed provenance metadata for supported files. Neither should be treated as an infallible AI detector.
A Moscow family says police cited an AI facial-recognition score after detaining the wrong teenager. Without the system and threshold, that percentage cannot be read as identity probability.
