A few years ago, most of the vertical farms being built were for growing leafy greens. Since then, the technology has not only scaled,...

Several weeks ago, clima­­te scientists said an extreme heatwave in China was the worst on record anywhere. Days later, Pakistan declared a national state...

The venerable stock image site, Getty, boasts a catalog of 80 million images. Shutterstock, a rival of Getty, offers 415 million images. It took...

Despite decades of research, the human brain remains largely a mystery to science. A new $500 million project to create the most comprehensive map...

Meta’s New Text-to-Video AI Generator Is Like DALL-E for VideoJames Vincent | The Verge“The videos are clearly artificial, with blurred subjects and distorted animation,...

Coastal urban centers around the world are urgently looking for new, sustainable water sources as their local supplies become less reliable. In the US,...

Restaurants have been struggling with labor shortages since the worst days of the pandemic, and the situation doesn’t seem to be getting any better....

Three and a half months ago, the biggest four-day work week trial in the world to date kicked off in the UK. Over 3,300...

I admit: if I see a beehive, I back away—fresh honey be damned. But part of me is also fascinated. Beehives are a remarkable feat...

Today, September 26, a spacecraft moving eight times faster than a speeding bullet will impact an asteroid almost 7 million miles (11 million kilometers)...

Big tech is eager to get us excited about the coming of the metaverse, but today’s virtual reality hardware is a long way from...

These Autonomous, Wireless Robots Could Dance on a Human HairDevin Coldewey | TechCrunch“The competition to create ever smaller, ever better robots is a fierce...