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Spaceships, starships, motherships, and good old flying saucers... Hollywood's sci-fi universe has provided us with some ...

Excerpted with permission from the publisher The Shortest History of AI‎,‎ Toby Walsh, published by Picador India.

Scientists at the University of Texas at Arlington, for example, have built a soft exoskeleton that fastens onto the arm and, in one recent study, reduced how hard participants’ biceps and triceps had ...

Gravity is usually presented as the most familiar of nature’s forces, the quiet background pull that keeps feet on sidewalks and planets in orbit. A growing group of physicists is now treating that ...

Applicants are not supposed to use AI to write college essays. But colleges are using AI to help assess applications. At ...

This type of printing technology has been around for a spell but is still new enough, or at least rapidly showing interesting ...

A new study from Spain suggests that a simple blood test may one day help doctors diagnose Parkinson’s disease earlier than ...

Nicola Jones for Knowable Magazine 2025 was a year of turmoil for many scientists — particularly in the United States, where ...

So here, as ever, are my ten best reads of 2025, in no particular order as the say on the game shows, with my top pick at the ...