Science

A video game character follows a script and doesn’t make decisions on what movements to make or what to say. But Soul Machines use their artificial intelligence to learn a voice and animations. We heard from Greg Cross, the creator of these “digital people,” and NBA player Carmelo Anthony, who is having a digital likeness of himself created.

Debris from a large Chinese rocket landed in the Indian Ocean on Sunday, according to the China Manned Space Engineering Office.

The company posted a job ad for a research scientist in Toronto on its website last week and confirmed that it plans to build a small team in the city.

The astronauts spent more than five months in space, the longest-ever duration for a crew launched in an American-built spacecraft.

Spiders can hear much more than humans can, and use sound and vibrations to navigate and hunt for prey. New research has translated spider webs into music to get a better idea of how spiders communicate, and perhaps replicate certain vibrations to draw attention. MIT engineering professor Markus Buehler explains his research on LX News.

The rate of U.S. vaccinations continued to slide in recent days as average daily case counts dropped below 60,000 on Friday for the first time since March 25.

The U.S. faced shortages for drugs used to treat Covid-19 patients during the pandemic as demand surged but supply.

Neuralink, the brain machine interface company founded by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, has published a video of a monkey playing the video game Pong with its mind.

If signed into law, Biden’s infrastructure plan would rank as one of the largest federal efforts ever to curb U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.

The move is part of President Biden’s broader effort to restore morale and scientific integrity at the EPA after Trump’s consistent dismissal of human-caused climate change.

Nearly half of the continental U.S. is in a drought that’s forecast to grow more severe and persistent, NOAA researchers announced on Thursday.

The Theranos founder’s fraud trail has already been delayed three times because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist credited with inventing the web in 1989, is concerned that a global “digital divide” is taking place.

“We’re in this together”: a quote that ignited action just eight months ago. Today, those words seem quite distant. NBCLX storyteller Cody Broadway looks beyond the political climate at the science behind motivation.

I’ve always been fascinated by motivational quotes. Especially the ones that create action. For example, “We’re in this together.” Five simple words on a screen that ignited a movement across the world eight months ago. Today, the effectiveness of that quote seems so distant. How did we go from praying in hospital parking lots to fighting inside grocery...

The co-founder of Facebook AI Research is now helping rival DeepMind to build a team in New York.

Apple has announced that it plans to create a major new chip lab in Munich as part of a 1 billion euro ($1.19 billion) investment into Germany.

Science journalist Shannon Stirone explains why SpaceX founder Elon Musk “is absolutely out into space” when it comes to the “unrealistic” colonization of Mars.

Facebook has built an AI program called “SEER” that can tell what it is looking at. It did this by feeding it over 1 billion public images from Instagram.

British luxury carmaker Aston Martin on Wednesday launched a new Formula One car ahead of its return to the most famous motor racing event in the world.