An AI model that understands the interplay between human body language, speech and emotion enables digital avatars to move ...

By the end of the century, most of the US outside the high mountains may never see deep snow cover the ground, with ...

As part of a project to make mathematics machine-readable, mathematicians have discovered an error in an important proof.

Several prototype aircraft that are intended to bring back commercial supersonic travel have been making big strides in ...

With the world set to blow past 1.5°C of warming, researchers are increasingly studying possible methods of cooling the planet by modifying the atmosphere or the oceans. More geoengineering ...

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Many researchers believe that the only way to build unambiguously useful quantum computers is to enable them to correct their own errors. A breakthrough in December from researchers at Google ...

After years of rising obesity rates in the US, the numbers dipped slightly during 2023, though experts disagree about the ...