Doctors have successfully operated on a pig – from 9,300 km (5,780 miles) away. Surgeons in Switzerland used a game controller to perform an endoscopy in Hong Kong, paving the way for remote procedures in humans where local expertise isn’t available.

Researchers at UCLA have successfully devised a way to produce cement with 98% less CO2 emissions than traditional methods. The team achieved this by decomposing limestone to access calcium oxide (aka lime) without releasing carbon dioxide.

As some entities identify new sources to meet the demand for rare earth materials, others are looking to new tools. Materials Nexus has designed a new rare-earth-free permanent magnet help from its AI platform – at record pace.

Food delivery riders in Taipei could cut heart attack response times, improving survival rates by delivering defibrillators faster than ambulances.

New research overturns common wisdom: daily coffee consumption safely reduces atrial fibrillation (AF) events, offering protection for your heart health.

A single injection of a new stem cell therapy for knee osteoarthritis significantly improved pain and function for up to 12 months in 75% of trial participants.

Nightmare fuel? Maybe – but in a historic moment for the dental profession, an AI-controlled autonomous robot has performed an entire procedure on a human patient for the first time, about eight times faster than a human dentist could do it.

A general anesthetic drug has been found to induce unconsciousness by causing brain activity to become increasingly unstable.

Ohio State scientists train living shiitake mushrooms as memristors, creating sustainable, low-power computer chips for data storage.

New game-based therapy offers hope for chronic pain relief without opioids, using brainwave feedback to rewire neural pathways.

In what's expected to soon be commonplace, artificial intelligence is being harnessed to pick up signs of cancer more accurately than the trained human eye. This latest AI model has a near 100% success rate and serves as a sign of things to come.

A new study reveals that when interacting with AI tools like ChatGPT, everyone—regardless of skill level—overestimates their performance.

Some thoughts and opinions about AI. In a stretch, I compare AI to automobiles.

Last week I participated in a panel discussion on AI as part of a private event in New Zealand.

From an amoeba to a blue whale

Browse through the old internet

Stare into the eyes of a stranger

Earth’s tremors can tweak your GPS coordinates.

Why people become addicted to fantasy lives.

An evolutionary biologist and a science fiction writer walk into a bar … and mull over survival.

Conversations with visionary science fiction authors on the social impact of their work.

James Webb Uncovers New Clues: Could Dark Matter Theory Be Wrong?

Scientists at City University of Hong Kong have created a groundbreaking VR device that allows users to experience taste in a virtual world. This innovative "lollipop-shaped taste interfacing system" can produce up to nine different flavors, including sugar, salt, citric acid, and more, using food-grade flavour chemicals.

A staple of old Buster Keaton/Laurel and Hardy films is the car that falls completely apart, either when closing one of the doors or even when driving, like so: How exactly did they pull these s...

Big data is dead. Long live easy data.

A mind that is no longer curious is one that is dead.

The productivity benefits of artificial intelligence are being masked by a ramp-up period.