Robotics

Above-Elbow Bionic Arm Can Control Every Finger

Researchers have created the first nerve-controlled prosthetic hand that can be used in daily life

Simon Makin

Artificial Intelligence

Generative AI Models Are Sucking Data Up From All Over the Internet, Yours Included

In the rush to build and train ever-larger AI models, developers have swept up much of the searchable Internet, quite possibly including some of your own public (and possibly private) data...

Sophie Bushwick, Lauren Leffer, Tulika Bose and Elah Feder

Aerospace

What It Takes to Grow Crystals in Space

Researcher Debbie G. Senesky builds materials that can work on Venus

Debbie G. Senesky

Artificial Intelligence

A More Reliable Wikipedia Could Come from AI Research Assistants

A neural network can identify Wikipedia references that are unlikely to support an article’s claims—and scour the web for better sources

Chris Stokel-Walker and Nature magazine

Energy

U.S. Plan to Put Weapons-Grade Uranium in a Civilian Reactor Is Dangerous and Unnecessary

The Biden administration’s intention to use dozens of bombs’ worth of highly enriched uranium as fuel in a new civilian reactor sets a dangerous precedent, one that could help our foes get nuclear weapons...

Alan J. Kuperman | Opinion