Biotech Firm Claims Some Credit for Groundbreaking Virus Research

A new polymer electrolyte to replace lithium ions in batteries is the result of research carried out by a team from the Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering (DCMIC) "Giulio Natta" at Politecnico di Milano, which conceived and developed a revolutionary, nonflammable, quasi-solid gel membrane that enables the transport of fluoride ions within batteries at room temperature.

The Trump administration has been negotiating agreements with dozens of individual countries. Public health experts say a global agreement would be far more effective.

Some call him a doomer. Others see him as a responsible technologist. Here’s how Dario Amodei’s thinking on artificial intelligence was shaped.

When you walk through a gallery, admiring the paintings on the walls, what you are seeing are finished products. They are the result of countless hours of learning and practice and trial and error, but none of that is on display.

NASA has unveiled a new experimental airplane, dubbed the 'X-70 Fractal'. The space agency has kept details on the aircraft sparse, but says it hails a 'new beginning for aeronautics'.

Rising global temperatures mean extreme weather events are becoming more common and more intense.

Human activities are causing the world to heat up, posing serious threats to people and nature.

The growth of artificial intelligence has increased demand for more efficient data storage. Instead of adding bulk to satiate this appetite, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are working to increase memory capacity by manipulating materials' characteristics at the atomic level.

Since the beginning of the year, the U.S. manufacturing industry has received trillions of dollars of investment from private companies, the federal government and foreign donors, with the manufacturing sector alone accounting for over 50% of private-sector research and development in the U.S.

The 2015 pact is at the heart of the international commitment to tackle rising global temperatures.

Reaching net zero carbon emissions worldwide is essential to limit global warming, UN scientists say.

Some WordPress sites can still be attacked while they install the fix for an actively exploited flaw, according to Umut Bayram, the Picus Security researcher who found it. The update that installs the fix still unpacks its files using the site's old, unpatched code, so an attacker who strikes at the right moment can run code on the server. The researcher advises blocking web access to the