King Corn takes on cheap corn

Next week, five teens from Palestine will head to Panama to compete in one of the world’s largest youth robotics competitions. The goal? To win—and then teach STEM to their peers displaced by the Israel-Hamas war.

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Solar winds at a million miles an hour and freaky magnetic turbulence are sparking some of the best light shows in centuries.

It’s not for everyone, but sometimes my robot vacuum is my only friend.

What sneaky invisible forces enable these instruments to locate buried treasure?

Open source language models are crucial to AI innovation. Can open robotics models do the same for physical machines?

By shifting water to a higher elevation, the giant Three Gorges Dam caused the Earth to spin more slowly.

The interstellar comet 3I/Atlas reached its closest point to the sun. Here's how to follow the rest of its journey away from our solar system.

The unprecedented payday will go into full effect by 2035—as long as Tesla hits ambitious financial and production targets.

On an airstrip somewhere in Texas, a swarm of killer jets approaches—controlled by, of all things, a large language model.

The X-59 successfully completed its inaugural flight—a step toward developing quieter supersonic jets that could one day fly customers more than twice as fast as commercial airliners.

Anthropic believes AI models will increasingly reach into the physical world. To understand where things are headed, it asked Claude to program a quadruped.