A Dangerous AI and Robot Dance, with Elon Musk, Tom Scott & Pissbot (aka Boston Dynamics' Spot). The robot will stand at 5’8, have eight cameras and help owners eliminate “dangerous, repetitive and boring tasks,” Musk said, adding that the bot will be friendly and harmless to humans. “At a mechanic

A look at PrEP, a prevention strategy for people at high risk for contracting HIV. Researchers at the University of California explain how pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) works as they describe a four-year, multi-pronged study of men who have sex with men in Los Angeles and San Diego. Participants a...

Landscape photographers can take a stroll outside and have all the available light they crave – unless of course they are using light pouring in from a window. But for the most part, studio photography involves setting up elaborate lighting, stands, and modifiers. Light is a type of energy. It is a

“This demonstration integrated capabilities across multiple laboratories, utilizing unmanned and manned sensor platforms, engaging a hostile swarm threat of surface craft attacking a virtual naval battlegroup consisting of a Nimitz class aircraft carrier, an Aegis class cruiser and an Independence c

Mirages & miracles / Live Exhibition / New work December 2017, Les Subsistances, Lyon, France.
Series of installations inhabited by digital animism.
Ranging from small to large-scale work, this corpus of installations offers a delicate coincidence between the virtual and the material using augment...

16 year-old scientist and humanitarian Jack Andraka has already changed the world. At 15, he won the Intel ISEF Gorden E. Moore award, the $75,000 top prize, for his invention of an early stage Pancreatic Cancer diagnostic test. Being referred to "the 15 year-old who changed the course of medicine" ...

Atmosphere contains water vapor in amounts comparable to all the surface and underground water on the planet. But current machines that collect water from the atmospheric reservoir have major limitations. They use electrical refrigeration to cool the air and condense the vapor and that consumes a lo

Antarctica, on average, is the coldest, driest, and windiest continent, and has the highest average elevation of all the continents. Antarctica is a desert, with annual precipitation of only 200 mm (8 in) along the coast and far less inland. The temperature in Antarctica has reached −89.2 °C (−128.6

As the world attempts to stop the spread of COVID-19, the streets of the world's most populated cities are practically empty in the midst of lockdowns and social distancing measures. From Wuhan City in China, Tokyo in Japan, Seoul in South Korea, Italian cities such as Rome and Milan, to Madrid in S...

A woman in Sweden has achieved a medical first after giving birth to a health baby boy following a womb transplant. The 36-year-old mother received a uterus from a close family friend last year. Her baby boy was born prematurely by cesarean section but is healthy and mother and child are now at hom...