"What is on the event horizon for a black hole? Where does it come from? Answering these questions would be a step towards realizing a quantum theory of gravity."

AI could improve lightning forecasts to help prepare for potential wildfires, improve safety warnings, and create more accurate long-range climate models.

Researchers are working to figure out how to judge success in household tasks like washing dishes and cleaning floors for future home robot assistants.

Researchers used artificial intelligence to create a new genetic model for the "ultimate" chickpea that has the potential to lift crop yields by up to 12%.

Researchers used night vision and AI to watch spiders use millions of individual leg actions to blindly create intricate webs using only the sense of touch.

With a cue from sea slugs, researchers have taken a step towards making AI more reliable for use in surgical robots, self-driving cars, and more.

Kids have gotten used to telling Alexa or Siri to call Grandma or play their favorite song. But will doing so make them bossy? Probably not.

"Noisy" data can trip up artificial intelligence tools that calculate credit risk, leading to disadvantages for low-income and minority borrowers, research finds.

A researcher explains the risks around facial recognition tech. "The privacy risks we uncover in our research should make anyone uncomfortable."

Artificial neural networks with human brain connectivity performed cognitive memory tasks more flexibly and efficiently than other systems, researchers say.