Professor Jürgen Schmidhuber has been pioneering Deep Learning Artificial Neural Networks since 1991.
Nasa astronaut is seen in video chasing Britain's Tim Peake around space station while dressed up as an ape.
Three skeletal remains were discovered pointing toward Mecca, and had lineage to North Africa.
It uses data to judge whether or not it likes a certain work of art within an exhibition.
Scientist pinpoint where fast radio burst is coming from for the first time.
Tiny changes in the molars of milk teeth have had a huge impact on the size and shape of teeth in humans.
A river of rubbish snakes through Beirut's northern suburbs, and vast mountains of trash surround the Lebanese capital.
You can help choose the winner of the Smithsonian Photo Contest Readers' Choice Award.
US researcher demonstrates that the flightless bird probably had the same size brain as the industrious pigeon.
Researchers claim social, political and ethnic factors more likely cause of Cahokia's downfall.
Natural amenities are changing to coincide with global warming say researchers.
Plane Stupid protesters who chained themselves to London Heathrow Airport in 2015 face prison sentences.
ESO releases 'spectacular' image of Milky Way showing Galactic Plane from Southern Hemisphere.
Secret chambers inside the tomb of ancient Egyptian King Tutankhamun may be hiding a treasure trove.
What you would need to do to build a real-life time machine
Asteroid which exploded in skies off Brazil was largest to hit Earth since 2013.
Thousands of shipwrecks spanning 500 years giving clues to health of deep-ocean in Gulf of Mexico
Killing off top predators creates an unsustainable banquet for rest of food chain, study found
It was long believed the plague and an earthquake drove people away from Sagalassos, but that is not the case.
Judges Alex Mustard, Martin Edge and Peter Rowlands had the pleasure of going through the entries to select the winners
PDSA says that owners are unprepared after so many unplanned litters.
Philip Lubin says we could use particles of light to push spacecraft to the Red Planet.
A scientist says we could survive half a century thanks to non-perishable goods taken from UK stores.
Ban Ki-Moon, Angela Merkel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Silvio Berlusconi and Nicolas Sarkozy were allegedly spied on.
Parliament's solar power plant will generate 80MW of energy, of which only 62MW will be used by the building.
$10,000 reward offered for information after iconic birds are found near popular hunting spot
Slashing beef intake by 50% can help meet climate target of keeping temperature rise within 2C limit, according to a study.
The caesarean delivery was done when the mother, a Western lowland gorilla, was diagnosed with pre-eclampsia.
Billions of small fish in diurnal trip may be adding 'rush hour' sound to sea, says marine biologist.
Climate change is to blame as if anthropogenic CO2 disappeared, sea level would have risen half the amount.