How do you train self-driving software to safely pilot a vehicle through city streets?

There are a few options; the first that probably springs to mind for most people is to spend countless hours actua...

Our planet is unique in the solar system. It’s the only one with active plate tectonics, ocean basins, continents and, as far as we know, life. But Earth in its current form is 4.5 billion years in the...

Thanks to SpaceX, traveling beyond Earth now seems pretty tangible for us commoners.

True, a ticket to the International Space Station currently runs $55 million (ouch). Technologically, however, the t...

“Are robots really destined to take over restaurant kitchens?” This was the headline of an article published by Eater four years ago. One of the experts interviewed was Siddhartha Srinivasa, at the tim...

It sounds like science fiction: giant solar power stations floating in space that beam down enormous amounts of energy to Earth. And for a long time, the concept—first developed by the Russian scientis...