The study of life has traditionally focused on documenting and understanding what exists and what has existed — the actual rather than the possible. However, as François Jacob astutely observed, our ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. AI researcher working with the UN and others to drive social change. What if the most impactful leap in artificial intelligence ...

The ongoing effort to make AI more efficient and, thereby, more profitable will likely reveal something about the origin of the most complex system known to us: Life. My reasoning? The most profound ...

Current artificial intelligence applications are pushing the limits of typical silicon and its underlying binary bits. New kinds of computers built to take advantage of quantum mechanical properties ...

Are we overestimating what artificial intelligence can truly achieve, or worse, fearing something it can never become? In this overview, Wes Roth explores how Lee Cronin, a renowned chemist and ...

BEIJING, 10 October (BelTA - Xinhua) - Bats and toothed whales are distant groups, yet both have independently developed the ability to perceive their environment through echolocation. A Chinese ...

A research team has created artificial animals that over time develop functioning vision from scratch - from simple light sensitivity to the ability ...

U.S. medical staff achieved an unprecedented feat by completely removing both lungs of a man in his 30s whose lung function ...