Creativity grows when people feel free to explore new ideas without fear of being wrong, and Minecraft offers exactly that kind of space. The game drops players into an open world made of blocks where ...

From Alien to Blade Runner, the legendary filmmaker has contributed more to sci-fi than perhaps any other director in Hollywood history. As terrific as his earlier films are, Ridley has also delivered ...

Three-dimensional modeling sits at the heart of modern design, engineering, and fabrication. Yet for blind and low-vision programmers, it has long remained one of the most difficult creative tasks to ...

BioRender provides a rich set of tools for creating highly accurate images from biology. The tools provide a visual language to support AI in the biological domain. Notation and diagrams are essential ...

Assessing the brain at the Barbican, London, UK. Image by Tim Sandle. Assessing the brain at the Barbican, London, UK. Image by Tim Sandle. New artificial intelligence-generated images that appear to ...

A scientist in Japan has developed a technique that uses brain scans and artificial intelligence to turn a person’s mental images into accurate, descriptive sentences. While there has been progress in ...

Bumblebees can process the duration of flashes of light and use the information to decide where to look for food, a new study has found. This is the first evidence of such an ability in insects, ...

The radical dismantling of government-funded basic research will accelerate the deterioration of universities’ beneficent implementation of the scientific method — the greatest accomplishment of ...

The IAEA has launched a new research project to enhance computer security for artificial intelligence systems that may be used in the nuclear sector. The project aims to strengthen computer security ...

Virginia Gewin is a freelance reporter in Portland, Oregon. Amid a backdrop of massive cuts in US federal support for scientific research, a new effort — the Science Foundation — launched last week to ...

The humble inventions that power our modern world wouldn’t have been possible without decades of support for early-stage research. In December 1947, three physicists at Bell Telephone ...

Deep learning final year projects offer students the opportunity to explore the latest advancements in artificial intelligence and apply them to real-world problems. One project idea is developing a ...