This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through July 19) Every week, we scour the web for important, insightful, and fascinating stories in science and technology. Here are our latest ...

Energy California Says 66% of Its Power Is Now From Renewable or Zero-Carbon Sources 'Clean energy' provided 100 percent of the state’s power for part of the day on nearly every day so far this year.

Artificial Intelligence AI Might Now Be as Good as Humans at Detecting Emotion, Political Leaning, and Sarcasm Maybe machines aren't so hopeless at detecting nuance after all.

Eating milk protein made by microbes may sound weird, but bacteria are highly efficient chemical factories that can make a large range of products.

The small device contains a slurry of chemicals representing primary flavors and mixes them together to mimic the taste of coffee, lemonade, and more.

The number of scientific papers that rely on AI has quadrupled, and the scope of problems AI can tackle is expanding by the day.

Robotics This Robotic Hand’s Electronic Skin Senses Exactly How Hard It Needs to Squeeze The hand can gently pick up anything from plastic cups to pineapples.

Tech Stratolaunch’s Hypersonic Plane Breaks Mach 5 and Lands Without a Pilot The Talon-A2 vehicle air-launched from the world's biggest aircraft and piloted itself at hypersonic speeds before landing ...

Jeff Bezos’s rocket company Blue Origin hopes to become a major rival to SpaceX in the private space industry. But those ambitions are on hold after the company postponed the test launch of its new ...

Science Scientists Discover Thousands of New Microbial Species Thriving in the Mariana Trench The project explores how life adapts to extreme environments—and hopes to inspire new drugs or even ...

Thanks to increasingly efficient and affordable gene sequencing technologies, we can now chart our genetic blueprint in unprecedented detail. But what does each gene do? Of the roughly 20,000 genes ...

Rapid declines in insect populations are leading to concerns that the pollination of important crops could soon come under threat. Tiny flying robots designed by MIT researchers could one day provide ...