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Artificial Intelligence
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Scaling Up: How Increasing Inputs Has Made Artificial Intelligence More Capable

Veronika Samborska
Anthropic Unveils the Strongest Defense Against AI Jailbreaks Yet

Anthropic Unveils the Strongest Defense Against AI Jailbreaks Yet

Edd Gent
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Will AI Revolutionize Drug Development? These Are the Root Causes of Drug Failure It Must Address

Christian Macedonia
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Duxin Sun

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The AI industry expects 2025 will be the year AI agents take over
Is 2025 the Year AI Agents Take Over? Industry Bets Billions on AI’s Killer App
Tech and AI are disrupting the publishing industry
The Tech World Is ‘Disrupting’ Book Publishing. But Do We Want Effortless Art?
Are "open" AI models really open? A new analysis says not so much
Most Supposedly ‘Open’ AI Systems Are Actually Closed—and That’s a Problem
Watch the Complete Evolution of the Terminator’s Killer Robots
Watch the Complete Evolution of the Terminator’s Killer Robots
Stanford researchers make AI clones of real people for social science research
OpenAI’s GPT-4o Makes AI Clones of Real People With Surprising Ease
Take a Ride in a Fully Autonomous Tesla Today [Video]
Take a Ride in a Fully Autonomous Tesla Today [Video]
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Biotechnology
Miniaturized CRISPR Packs a Mighty Gene Editing Punch

Miniaturized CRISPR Packs a Mighty Gene Editing Punch

Shelly Fan
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Scientists Target Incurable Mitochondrial Diseases With New Gene Editing Tools

Shelly Fan
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Mice With Two Dads Reach Adulthood Thanks to CRISPR

Shelly Fan

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Exosomes Are Being Hyped as a ‘Silver Bullet’ Therapy. Scientists Say No.
Exosomes Are Being Hyped as a ‘Silver Bullet’ Therapy. Scientists Say No.
‘Mirror Bacteria’ Could Wreak Havoc on Life and the Environment, Scientists Warn
‘Mirror Bacteria’ Could Wreak Havoc on Life and the Environment, Scientists Warn
AI That Can Design Life’s Machinery From Scratch Had a Big Year. Here’s What Happens Next.
AI That Can Design Life’s Machinery From Scratch Had a Big Year. Here’s What Happens Next.
How to Be Healthy at 100: Centenarian Stem Cells Could Hold the Key
How to Be Healthy at 100: Centenarian Stem Cells Could Hold the Key
Science Corporation's biohybrid brain implant uses neurons instead of electrodes to interface with the brain
Neuralink Rival’s Biohybrid Implant Connects to the Brain With Living Neurons
Thousands of Undiscovered Genes May Be Hidden in DNA ‘Dark Matter’
Thousands of Undiscovered Genes May Be Hidden in DNA ‘Dark Matter’
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Computing
Forget Nvidia: DeepSeek AI Runs Near Instantaneously on These Weird Chips

Forget Nvidia: DeepSeek AI Runs Near Instantaneously on These Weird Chips

Jason Dorrier
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A Paralyzed Man Just Piloted a Virtual Drone With His Mind Alone

Shelly Fan
Nvidia's tight grip on the AI hardware industry could be loosening

Here’s How Nvidia’s Vice-Like Grip on AI Chips Could Slip

Edd Gent

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Google's new quantum processor, Willow, is a breakthrough for error correction and could lead to practically useful quantum computers.
Google’s Latest Quantum Computing Breakthrough Shows Practical Machines Are Within Reach
Science Corporation's biohybrid brain implant uses neurons instead of electrodes to interface with the brain
Neuralink Rival’s Biohybrid Implant Connects to the Brain With Living Neurons
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Quantum Computers in 2023: Where They Are Now and What’s Next
Quantum Computers Take a Major Step With Error Correction Breakthrough
Quantum Computers Take a Major Step With Error Correction Breakthrough
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6 Things Quantum Computers Will Be Incredibly Useful For
Women Working on the Frontiers of Technology
Women Working on the Frontiers of Technology
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Space
Scientists Find ‘Mirror Life’ Building Blocks on Asteroid Bennu

Scientists Find ‘Mirror Life’ Building Blocks on Asteroid Bennu

Shelly Fan
Gaia’s View of the Milky Way

Does Extraterrestrial Life Exist? Here’s What Scientists Really Think

Henry Taylor,
Peter Vickers
and
Sean McMahon
Blue Origin Is Ready to Challenge SpaceX With Its New Glenn Rocket

Blue Origin Is Ready to Challenge SpaceX With Its New Glenn Rocket

Edd Gent

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Scientists are looking to Earth's ancient past, depicted here, to help them spot exoplanets that are potentially habitable.
ET May Look Nothing Like Life on Earth. Scientists Want a Universal Theory of Life to Describe It.
Short Space Film “Wanderers” Reminds Us We Are All Explorers
Short Space Film “Wanderers” Reminds Us We Are All Explorers
Astronomers have found the origin of a mysterious source of repeating radio signals.
Astronomers Have Pinpointed the Origin of Mysterious Repeating Radio Bursts From Space
Big Bang
How Could the Big Bang Arise From Nothing?
Women Working on the Frontiers of Technology
Women Working on the Frontiers of Technology
A Ferocious Asteroid Strike Demolished an Ancient Middle Eastern City 3,600 Years Ago
A Ferocious Asteroid Strike Demolished an Ancient Middle Eastern City 3,600 Years Ago
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Future
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Logging off Life but Living on: How AI Is Redefining Death, Memory, and Immortality

Patrick van Esch
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Yuanyuan (Gina) Cui
A new tool helps developers build new regenerative living spaces and ecovillages

Inside VillageOS: A ‘SimCity’-Like Tool for Regenerative Living Spaces

Aaron Frank
The AI industry expects 2025 will be the year AI agents take over

Is 2025 the Year AI Agents Take Over? Industry Bets Billions on AI’s Killer App

Edd Gent

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The AI industry expects 2025 will be the year AI agents take over
Is 2025 the Year AI Agents Take Over? Industry Bets Billions on AI’s Killer App
A new tool helps developers build new regenerative living spaces and ecovillages
Inside VillageOS: A ‘SimCity’-Like Tool for Regenerative Living Spaces
Watch the Complete Evolution of the Terminator’s Killer Robots
Watch the Complete Evolution of the Terminator’s Killer Robots
Short Space Film “Wanderers” Reminds Us We Are All Explorers
Short Space Film “Wanderers” Reminds Us We Are All Explorers
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Ray Kurzweil’s Mind-Boggling Predictions for the Next 25 Years
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The World in 2025: 8 Predictions for the Next 10 Years
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Tech
The US Says Electric Air Taxis Can Finally Take Flight Under New FAA Rules

The US Says Electric Air Taxis Can Finally Take Flight Under New FAA Rules

Edd Gent
Scientists say new electric plastic is programmable and biocompatible.

‘Electric Plastic’ Could Merge Technology With the Body in Future Wearables and Implants

Edd Gent
Meta's Llama 3.1 405B is the largest "open" AI model yet.

Meta Just Launched the Largest ‘Open’ AI Model in History. Here’s Why It Matters.

Seyedali Mirjalili

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This Huge Robot Will Drive Up and Build You a House [Video]
This Huge Robot Will Drive Up and Build You a House [Video]
Take a Ride in a Fully Autonomous Tesla Today [Video]
Take a Ride in a Fully Autonomous Tesla Today [Video]
Coronavirus Is Changing How We Live, Work, and Use Tech—Permanently
Coronavirus Is Changing How We Live, Work, and Use Tech—Permanently
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Virtual Influencers Are on the Rise. How Far Will Their Influence Go?
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Top Takeaways From The Economist Innovation Summit
Where Artificial Intelligence Is Now and What’s Just Around the Corner
Where Artificial Intelligence Is Now and What’s Just Around the Corner
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Robotics
An autonomous drone, called SUPER, from the University of Hong Kong hovers in the air

This Autonomous Drone Can Track Humans Through Dense Forests at High Speed

Edd Gent
MIT’s Latest Bug Robot Is a Super Flyer. It Could One Day Help Bees Pollinate Crops.

MIT’s Latest Bug Robot Is a Super Flyer. It Could One Day Help Bees Pollinate Crops.

Edd Gent
A digital render of a human or robot with prismatic rainbows.

A ChatGPT Moment Is Coming for Robotics. AI World Models Could Help Make It Happen.

Aaron Frank

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This Soft Robot Stingray Just Explored the Deepest Point in the Ocean
This Soft Robot Stingray Just Explored the Deepest Point in the Ocean
This Huge Robot Will Drive Up and Build You a House [Video]
This Huge Robot Will Drive Up and Build You a House [Video]
Watch the Complete Evolution of the Terminator’s Killer Robots
Watch the Complete Evolution of the Terminator’s Killer Robots
Boston Dynamics' latest video shows its electric humanoid robot, Atlas, moving car parts autonomously.
Watch: Boston Dynamics’ New Electric Atlas Robot Gets Down to Work
Take a Ride in a Fully Autonomous Tesla Today [Video]
Take a Ride in a Fully Autonomous Tesla Today [Video]
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Ray Kurzweil Predicts Three Technologies Will Define Our Future
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Science
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Evolving Intelligent Life May Not Have Been as Unlikely as Many Scientists Predicted

Daniel Brady Mills,
Jason Wright
and
Jennifer L. Macalady
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What Does Every Human Gene Do? This Massive Project Is About to Find Out

Shelly Fan
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The Brain on Microplastics: A Study in Mice Finds the Brain’s Immune Cells Gorging on Plastic

Shelly Fan

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Scientists are looking to Earth's ancient past, depicted here, to help them spot exoplanets that are potentially habitable.
ET May Look Nothing Like Life on Earth. Scientists Want a Universal Theory of Life to Describe It.
In a new study, scientists have found distinct markers of brain aging in the blood.
The Secret to Predicting How Your Brain Will Age May Be in Your Blood
Thousands of Undiscovered Genes May Be Hidden in DNA ‘Dark Matter’
Thousands of Undiscovered Genes May Be Hidden in DNA ‘Dark Matter’
math
Humans Didn’t Invent Mathematics, It’s What the World Is Made Of
Can AI generate original research ideas like a scientist can?
AI and Scientists Face Off to See Who Can Come Up With the Best Ideas
Did the Early Cosmos Inflate Like a Balloon? A Mirror Universe Going Backwards in Time May Be a Simpler Explanation
Did the Early Cosmos Inflate Like a Balloon? A Mirror Universe Going Backwards in Time May Be a Simpler Explanation
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