AI vision models have improved dramatically over the past decade. Yet these gains have led to neural networks which, though effective, don’t share many characteristics with human vision. For example, ...

We currently use a lot of ammonia to produce fertilizer, refrigerants, and other chemicals, and unfortunately rely heavily on ...

The human body generates a significant amount of mechanical energy during its activities, but the challenge is how to harvest this energy efficiently. An interdisciplinary team of researchers has ...

As far as organs go, human brains certainly consume a ton of energy—almost 50 grams of sugar, or 12 lumps, every day. This is one of the highest energy demands relative to body metabolism known ...

AI is learning to think like us, bridging the worlds of biology and technology. This breakthrough could redefine intelligence ...

Surprisingly, human technology and smarts don’t make us very energy-efficient. Hadza men and women achieve the same paltry ratio of energy acquired to energy expended that we find in wild apes.

Renewable energy and construction are among the sectors expected to drive job creation under the government’s newly launched National Green Jobs Human Resource Development Plan, the Department of ...

Kathleen Hogan, Microsofts’s chief human resources officer, recently sounded the alarm that businesses today are facing a “human energy crisis.” Workers in virtually every occupation are ...

The IAEA can help revise energy requirements by providing data. Its Doubly Labelled Water (DLW) Database – a collection of almost 12 000 measurements of daily energy expenditure from pre-term infants ...