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 U.S. Energy Department has hired two Alabama scientists who are well-known for their skepticism about human-influenced ...

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 ...

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 ...

The three scientists joined the administration after it dismissed hundreds of experts who were assessing how global warming ...

That’s why University at Buffalo researchers are taking inspiration from the human brain to develop computing architecture ...

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.

Mining for the Energy Transition Needs to Respect Human Rights. The extraction of key minerals used in renewables is accompanied by abuses. The UN must take action to address them.