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

Electric air taxis have seen rapid technological advances in recent years, but the industry has had a regulatory question mark hanging over its head....

Did the Early Cosmos Inflate Like a Balloon? A Mirror Universe Going Backwards in Time May Be a Simpler Explanation

We live in a golden age for learning about the universe. Our most powerful telescopes have revealed that the cosmos is surprisingly simple on...

The Legally Blind See Again With an Implant the Size of a Grain of Salt

Seeing is believing. Our perception of the world heavily relies on vision. What we see depends on cells in the retina, which sit behind the...

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Anthropic Wants Its AI Agent to Control Your Computer Will Knight | Wired "It took a while for people to adjust to the idea of...

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

Finding ways to connect the human body to technology could have broad applications in health and entertainment. A new "electric plastic" could make self-powered...

This Radical New Farming Method Would Replace Photosynthesis With Solar Power

Farming immediately sparks images of lush fields of leafy greens under a blue sky, corn blowing in the wind, or majestic terraced rice paddies...

Scientists Just Discovered Over 70,000 Bizarre New Viruses With AI

Viruses are everywhere. They’re in the air; in sewage, lakes, and oceans; in grasslands and decaying wood. Some thrive in extreme conditions, like hydrothermal...

Nuclear Rockets Could Take Us to Mars in Half the Time. NASA Plans to Fly One by 2027.

NASA plans to send crewed missions to Mars over the next decade—but the 140 million-mile (225 million-kilometer) journey to the red planet could take...
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Dusty Snow on Mars Could Harbor Life According to a New NASA Simulation

Water is the essence of life. When scientists discovered permafrost ice caps on Mars’ north pole in 1976, the news immediately sparked speculation about potential...

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through October 19)

SPACE SpaceX Catches Returning Rocket in Mid-Air, Turning a Fanciful Idea Into Reality Stephen Clark | Ars Technica "This achievement is the first of its kind, and...

This DeepMind AI Helps Polarized Groups of People Find Common Ground

In our polarized times, finding ways to get people to agree with each other is more important than ever. New research suggests AI can...

Autoimmune Diseases Stopped in Their Tracks by ‘Phenomenal’ Donor Cell Therapy

For the first time, an off-the-shelf CAR T cell therapy has been used to treat potentially life-threatening autoimmune disorders in three people. With a...

AI Has a Secret: We’re Still Not Sure How to Test for Human Levels of Intelligence

Two of San Francisco’s leading players in artificial intelligence have challenged the public to come up with questions capable of testing the capabilities of...

Are We Reaching the Limit of Human Longevity? A New Study Says Yes

Human life expectancy dramatically increased last century. Compared to babies born in 1900, those born at the turn of the 21st century could live,...

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through October 12)

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AI’s Penicillin and X-Ray Moment Matteo Wong | The Atlantic "When the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel wrote his will in 1895, he designated funds to reward...

AI Agents Could Collaborate on Far Grander Scales Than Humans, Study Says

Humans are social animals, but there appear to be hard limits to the number of relationships we can maintain at once. New research suggests...

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