Microbes could extract the metal needed for cleantech In a pine forest on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the only active nickel ...

In a pine forest on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the only active nickel mine in the US is nearing the end of its life. At a time when carmakers want the metal for electric-vehicle batteries, nickel ...

Sam Gregory on the improtance of addressing “deepfakes”—the problem of fake audio and video created using artificial intelligence—before they become a widespread threat to trust in news sources ...

Expect to see new chemistries hitting the roads, a shifting policy landscape, and a renewed focus on cost and performance.

The path to AI success starts with a single, well-chosen use case: one that is bold enough to inspire, urgent enough to ...

Even when content is revealed to be manipulated, it still shapes our beliefs. The defenders of truth are hopelessly behind.

In a bid to treat blindness, Life Biosciences will try out potent cellular reprogramming technology on volunteers.

If you want to get a handle on all that, don’t expect any help from the AI companies—they’re turning on each other like it’s ...

Immigration agencies have been flooding social media with bizarre, seemingly AI-generated content. We now know more about what might be making it.

Civitai—an online marketplace for buying and selling AI-generated content, backed by the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz—is letting users buy custom instruction files for generating celebrity ...

Fossil-fuel plants can see reliability challenges during winter: When temperatures drop, pressures in natural-gas lines fall too, which can lead to issues for fuel supply. Freezing temperatures can ...

Longevity enthusiasts tell stories of extreme biohacking, post-cryopreservation polyamory and penis injections. Are they onto something?