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 ...

“We’ve always used tools to build new tools, and developers are using AI to continue that tradition. On Tuesday, Google’s CEO revealed that AI systems now generate more than a quarter of new code for ...

Electric air taxis have seen rapid technological advances in recent years, but the industry has had a regulatory question mark hanging over its head. Now, the US Federal Aviation Authority has ...

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