Celebrities such as James Dean can be brought back to life thanks to artificial intelligence, but it is raising troubling questions about what rights any of us have after we die.
Artificial intelligence is arguably the most important technological development of our time – we break down the key terms.
The era of the flying car appears to be coming closer – but huge challenges remain to be solved.
Famed physicist Nikola Tesla wanted to obtain electricity from humidity in the air: decades after his death, the idea could finally be coming to fruition.
Students, lawyers and others are passing off writing drafted by artificial intelligence as their own. How to spot it?
The biggest container ships ever built ply the world's oceans. Can they get any bigger?
Australia's use of facial recognition technology has caused controversy and stoked privacy fears, but there is a chance that it could become a world leader in regulating its use.
Enormous container ships ferry goods all over the world, but when one of them gets into trouble – as happened with the Ever Given and Ever Forward recently – how can they be saved?
Just down the coast from Donald Trump's weekend retreat, the residents and businesses of south Florida are experiencing regular episodes of water in the streets as sea levels rise.
Dabbawalas deliver hundreds of thousands of meals on foot and by bike in one of India's busiest cities every day. The new wave of food-delivery start-ups wants to know how they do it.
The enormous ships that ferry crude oil around the world embody the fossil fuel era and its legacy of pollution. But can they be transformed to be good for the environment?
Our hectic, on-demand lifestyles rely upon allocating finite resources to ever-changing numbers of people. To keep up, however, we must solve a little-known mathematical riddle.
Nearly half the world’s population is at risk of the mosquito-borne disease. But a new vaccine may stop it in its tracks, saving millions of lives
Russia is the latest country to try to find ways to police its online borders, sparking the end of the internet as we know it
Fukuoka is being positioned as Japan's alternative to Silicon Valley, a breeding ground of new start-ups
A psychological understanding of the “extremist mindset” is essential to combat violence
Traditional musicians are teaming up with materials scientists to create an ivory replacement which spares elephants, yet preserves the quality of their craft
Despite its rainy reputation, the UK’s water reserves are seriously strained - and its insatiable demands are putting pressure on other countries too
The Earth cools after volcanoes erupt. Now some researchers think we should mimic those effects to reduce global warming. What could possibly go wrong?
Locked inside the wood of Japan’s hinoki trees is an unprecedented 2,600 year-long record of rainfall patterns that are helping to piece together how weather shapes society.
