How generative AI could reinvent what it means to play
AI-powered NPCs that don’t need a script could make games—and other worlds—deeply immersive.
AI-powered NPCs that don’t need a script could make games—and other worlds—deeply immersive.
Figuring out how the human body can withstand underwater pressure has been a problem for over a century, but a ragtag band of divers is experimenting with hydrogen to find out.
The workplace tool’s appeal extends far beyond organizing work projects. Many users find it’s just as useful for managing their free time.
Monitoring the brains of newborn babies while they sleep gives us insight into how they learn.
Monitoring the brains of newborn babies while they sleep gives us insight into how they learn.
The company has already used its protein-folding AI, AlphaFold, to generate structures for the human proteome, as well as yeast, fruit flies, mice, and more.
Social distancing is here to stay for much more than a few weeks. It will upend our way of life, in some ways forever.
Physicists have long suspected that quantum mechanics allows two observers to experience different, conflicting realities. Now they’ve performed the first experiment that proves it.
New research suggests that a controversial gene-editing experiment to make children resistant to HIV may also have enhanced their ability to learn and form memories.
Time crystals were first predicted in 2012. Now researchers have created time crystals for the first time and say they could one day be used as quantum memories.
Since it would take at least 6,300 years to reach the closest star to our sun, enough men and women to produce many genetically healthy generations would need to make the trip.
Mistaken extrapolations, limited imagination, and other common mistakes that distract us from thinking more productively about the future.
It could help change the way that buildings are designed, as well as getting you to your floor faster.
When Brian Hanley set out to test a gene therapy, he started with himself.
Scientists at the Computational Story Laboratory have analyzed novels to identify the building blocks of all stories.
Advanced genetic tools could help boost crop yields and feed billions more people.