Tokyo Institute of Technology taps Nvidia for Japan’s fastest AI supercomputer

 Nvidia’s business is increasingly the business of artificial intelligence, and its latest partnership fits with that…

Semi-finalists named in the Shell Ocean Discovery XPrize

 The Shell Oil-sponsored Ocean Discovery XPrize moves to the semi-finalist stage this week with 21 teams from…

Virtual nurse app Sense.ly raises $8 million from investors including the Mayo Clinic

 San Francisco startup Sense.ly has raised $8 million in a Series B round of venture funding…

AncestryDNA clustered 770,000 genomes to find your family’s American immigration story

 Immigration into the U.S. is a hot political topic right now, but, unless you’re Native American, pretty…

Cambridge is giving cancer the 3D VR treatment

 It’s always good to hear that scientists are bringing the latest technology to the fight against…

NASA’s concept Europa lander belongs on the cover of a sci-fi pulp

 Long before any mission to another planet is undertaken, NASA and other space agencies commission reports…

Watch the trailer for Netflix’s Bill Nye Saves The World, arriving April 21

 Bill Nye Saves The World, the new Netflix show that’s possibly best described as a science…

Tiny chip looks deep inside your body with millimeter-wave radiation

 Researchers at the University of California Irvine have created a chip for use in medical imaging…