Technology

AI and tiny worms team up to get to treats

Until AI algorithms understand what words mean, they won’t be reliable for important decisions—especially those with money on the line

Tech firms, oil companies and the U.S. government are investing billions of dollars in carbon capture technology to suck greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere. Can it save the warming world?

A Google experiment to improve stoplights shows early positive results. But AI-assisted software won’t replace human traffic engineers just yet

The Oura Ring and other smart rings forecast menstrual cycles by detecting changes in body temperature

A recently adopted United Nations treaty could lead to invasive digital surveillance, human rights experts warn

In the search for less energy-hungry artificial intelligence, some scientists are exploring living computers

An antitrust expert explains Monday’s landmark legal decision that Google illegally cemented its dominance in Internet search

Controversy surrounds whether the Olympic pool in the Paris La Défense Arena is not deep enough and slows swimmers. Is this contention true?

"Big data" and artificial intelligence are changing how elite American athletes train for the biggest competition in the world.

Physicist Jess Wade explains the importance of recognizing female scientists on Wikipedia. She’s created more than 2,000 Wikipedia articles to do just that

Social media exploits our evolved need for information, feeding us fluff and outright misinformation. A new science of human collective behavior can help us retake control