From a universal robot brain to how AI could be better than quantum computing, check out this week's awesome tech stories from around the web.

The ability of plants to convert sunlight into food is an enviable superpower. Now, researchers have shown they can get ...

Scientists have long wondered how the first cell membranes formed from the primordial soup—a new study offers up a recipe.

A close flyby of an asteroid as large as Apophis happens only once every 5,000 to 10,000 years. Scientists plan to learn all they can.

A recent video shows Atlas picking auto parts from one set of shelves and moving them over to another set, a job currently handled by factory workers.

Broadly speaking, superintelligence is anything more intelligent than humans. But unpacking what that might mean in practice ...

There may well be simpler, more powerful and more testable explanations for the basic properties of the universe than those ...

Seeing is believing. Our perception of the world heavily relies on vision. What we see depends on cells in the retina, which sit behind the eyes. These delicate cells transform light into electrical ...

A new "electric plastic" could make self-powered wearables, real-time neural interfaces, and medical implants that merge with ...

“It took a while for people to adjust to the idea of chatbots that seem to have minds of their own. The next leap into the unknown may involve trusting artificial intelligence to take over our ...