The world is full of wild inventions—some that changed history and others that just made people scratch their heads. From bizarre gadgets of the past to futuristic tech that seems straight out of a ...

Most renewable energy sources have one crucial drawback. This is instability and unpredictability. Certainly, there are principles—the wind blows and the sun shines in some areas, but this is not ...

The Roman sage Marcus Aurelius said we should never let the future disturb us. But then he never had a conversation with the futurologist Nick Bostrom about the state of the world in 2050. “There’s a ...

Recently, I wrote about what I see as the greatest risks of AI, from the loss of millions of jobs to the possibility of catastrophic misuse. Even as an optimist, I acknowledge there is plenty to worry ...

Bill Gates has described artificial intelligence as the most transformative technology humans have ever created, warning that ...

Meek Mill says he’s working on a tool that will change lives. On Sunday (August 31), the rapper shared on his X account that he’s working on something monumental involving artificial intelligence.

International collaboration on climate change is fraying. The Trump administration withdrew the United States from the Paris Agreement, the 2015 treaty aiming to limit global warming, and has ...

Meek Mill says he’s working on a tool that will change lives. On Sunday (August 31), the rapper shared on his X account that he’s working on something monumental involving artificial intelligence.

“In the past”, says Furkan Kayabasoglu, an obstetrician in Istanbul, “I would deliver a couple’s first baby and then their second or even a third.” These days, however, “one and done” parents are ...

The leaders told us how they are facing a warming planet in a world where international collaboration on climate change is fraying. By David Gelles I host the Climate Forward newsletter and live event ...

In its initial “assessment reports”—lengthy tomes of scientific knowledge on the climate, published every eight years or so—the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change conveyed what the future might ...

Next month, government officials, policymakers, and activists will flock to Belém, Brazil, for the United Nations' annual climate change summit. In the past, these conferences have focused on wealth ...