Generative AI taught a robot dog to scramble around a new environment Teaching robots to navigate new environments is tough.

However, they face many barriers. AI research is eye-wateringly expensive, and African startups and researchers get a ...

Now, there’s potentially a better option: a new system that uses generative AI models in conjunction with a physics simulator ...

Africa is still early in the process of adopting AI technologies. But researchers say the continent is uniquely hospitable to ...

Inadequate funding, infrastructure issues, and fights over regulation mean the sector's future remains uncertain.

I’ve spent most of this year being pretty convinced that Donald Trump would be the 47th president of the United States. Even ...

Two years ago, the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a legal decision that protected the right to abortion. Since then, abortion bans have been enacted in multiple states, and millions of ...

Donald Trump’s decisive victory is a stunning setback for the fight against climate change. The Republican president-elect’s ...

Rapid advances in applying artificial intelligence to simulations in physics and chemistry have some people questioning whether we will even need quantum computers at all.

Seven states are set to implement laws supporting abortion access, but the future of reproductive rights in the US is unclear.

His return to the White House puts the world’s second-largest climate polluter on an emissions trajectory we can’t afford.

The US, which is currently the world’s second-largest greenhouse-gas emitter and has added more climate pollution to the atmosphere than any other nation, is now very unlikely to hit Biden’s 2030 goal ...