Meet Sturgeon, the AI tool helping doctors find brain tumors

In the medical field, being fast, efficient, and correct can be the difference between life and death. This game-changing tool is helping cancer researchers and doctors save lives.

Alien life is out there. Can AI find it?

It’s the ultimate game of find a needle in the haystack. One NASA scientist is betting on AI to help expedite the search through billions of planets.

How AI is revealing lost secrets of the Roman Empire

Armed with new tools, scholars are finally able to read papyrus scrolls long deemed too fragile to open. The breakthrough could literally change history.

What are animals saying? AI may help decode their languages

A groundbreaking research project is finally building the tools to translate just how whales and other creatures communicate.

AI is helping to find the next monster earthquake

Some earthquakes are imperceptibly quiet. We may not feel them, but machines might detect them—and they can point scientists to a potential "Big One".

Your biggest AI questions, answered

Will AI always give flawed answers? Can we prevent AI from compounding problems from our past? Four experts weigh in.

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