Watch just a few self-driving cars stop traffic jams
Artificial intelligence–powered cars can put the brakes on stop-and-go traffic
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Watch tiny robots swim through an eyeball to deliver medicine
Scientist use magnetic field to drive spiral nanobots -
California’s new earthquake warnings deliver critical seconds of notice
Quakes defy scientists’ attempts to tease out longer, accurate warnings -
New generation of ‘flow batteries’ could eventually sustain a grid powered by the sun and wind
Novel batteries promise cheap, safe, and stable backup power -
Europe’s billion-euro quantum flagship hands out first grants
Funding could help quantum technology gain commercial footholds in Europe -
This tiny wasp-inspired drone can pull 40 times its own weight
The FlyCroTug can also open doors, inspect buildings -
Three Chinese teams join race to build the world’s fastest supercomputer
Exascale computers promise dramatic advances in climate modeling, genetics studies, and artificial intelligence -
MIT to use $350 million gift to bolster computer sciences
Donation will help coordinate instruction in a rapidly growing field -
Streams of stars reveal the galaxy’s violent history—and perhaps its unseen dark matter
Gaia and other sky surveys spur a surge in stream discoveries -
Cooling paint drops the temperature of any surface
Material that reflects light and sheds heat could put a large dent in AC costs -
Arrays of atoms emerge as dark horse candidate to power quantum computers
Neutral atom qubits can be packed into 3D shapes and programmed to work with few errors -
Watch these alienlike robots weave a bus-size fiberglass structure—all by themselves
“Fiberbots” could be used for quick construction in remote environments -
Want to convince someone that you’re human? This one word could do the trick
Call it a minimal Turing test -
Watch robotic ‘skins’ give life to inanimate toys
Flexible cuffs could also be used for space missions, rescue vehicles -
Smarter AIs could help us understand how our brains interpret the world
Scientists are hunting for parallels between brains and deep neural networks -
These eerie new images reveal the insides of fish and snakes like never before
Scientists use fluorescence imaging to show stunning anatomical details
