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Dueling neural networks. Artificial embryos. AI in the cloud. Welcome to our annual list of the 10 technology advances we think will shape the way we work and live now and for years to come.
Tool that tallies engagement with new biomedical concepts seeks to reward novelty. Switzerland has fallen considerably since the 1990s compared to other countries.
A small group of fewer than 30 universities are having a bigger impact on the inventions driving global economic growth than the world’s major industrialised nations.
Alphabet, the parent company of Google, is launching a new company under the Alphabet umbrella. It's called Chronicle, and the new company wants to apply the usual Google tenets of machine learning and cloud computing to cybersecurity.
I know, I know: I wrote about blockchain for science just last summer — this blog will explain why I now consider implementing blockchain to “improve” science a mistake.
Efforts to engage life science companies in open innovation have been hampered by the industry’s continued reticence to share. The result is shrinking pipelines, a wave of drug patent expirations ending in sudden drops in revenue, and poorly served public health.
Current trends say generating new bitcoins will use all the power in the world by 2020.
Even lobbyists admit that’s the plan behind the extra EU copyright for news.
Government policies overshadow AI’s biggest gathering.
Income and gender make a big difference in who winds up inventing.
The secret to unlocking innovation isn’t tax cuts - it’s equality.
"It’s clear we are a long way from artificial general intelligence." - Erik Brynjolfsson
A comprehensive and data-driven portrait of Europe’s technology ecosystem.
New report considers the developments and varying perspectives of blockchain technology and its possible impact on the academic arena.
High-risk, high-reward ideas in areas such as AI, blockchain and synthetic biology are typical contenders for support from the EU’s new Innovation Council.
The independent High-Level Group of Innovators recommends bringing all relevant EU funding schemes into a single, fit-for-purpose 'one-stop-shop' for innovation financing.
A new system must build cross-sector collaboration, lower barriers to working together, and create excitement and tangible know-how to attract investment.
How do evolving forms of digital scholarship fit into the current landscape and what are the implications for publishers?
Thomas Insel's biggest lesson from his shift from NIMH director to Silicon Valley entrepreneur: academic and technology company researchers should partner up.
Young firms struggle to compete as deep-pocketed companies like Facebook and Amazon clone products and consolidate their power.
How can evolutionary computation support journal editors?
Mountains, lakes, chocolate, fondue and banks? Right? Only partly.
As teachers launch personal brands and cast themselves as influencers, start-ups and tech giants alike are racing to cultivate them to spread their wares.
Approval of Novartis cancer drug is “historic,” FDA says
When you think of innovation, you also may think of patents and profits. But two Swiss researchers argue that we should be focusing more on people and places.
Leaders in the fields of AI and robotics, including Elon Musk and Google DeepMind’s Mustafa Suleyman, have signed a letter calling on the United Nations to ban lethal autonomous weapons.
A big waste of money or the engine of marketplace innovation? That's how some people see basic scientific research. Now a new study shows how basic research and inventions are connected.
Scholarly work cited in patent literature and the value of the patents as perceived by the applicants of 200 leading global research institutions.
MilliporeSigma wins a key step in its claims to “knock-in” DNA with the powerful tool.
Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein would have bridled under today's research funding bureaucracy. It's time to allow scientists to indulge their curiosity again.
