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Sweet CRISPR Tomatoes May Be Coming to a Supermarket Near You

When I was a young kid, our neighborhood didn’t have any grocery stores. The only place to buy fruits and vegetables was at our...

Could We Ever Decipher an Alien Language? Uncovering How AI Communicates May Be Key

In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language consisting of palindromic phrases,...

This Ambitious Project Wants to Sequence the DNA of All Complex Life on Earth

“We’re only just beginning to understand the full majesty of life on Earth,” wrote the founding members of the Earth BioGenome Project in 2018....

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Why AI Could Eat Quantum Computing’s Lunch Edd Gent | MIT Technology Review "The scale and complexity of quantum systems that can be simulated using...

Solar-Powered ‘Planimal’ Cells? Chloroplasts in Hamster Cells Make Food From Light

The ability of plants to convert sunlight into food is an enviable superpower. Now, researchers have shown they can get animal cells to do...

The First Cells May Have Formed From Simple Fatty Bubbles Like These Ones

The first spark of cellular life on Earth likely needed gift packaging. Let me explain. With the holidays around the corner, we’re all beginning to...

Europe Aims to Visit This Large Asteroid When It Brushes by Earth in 2029

The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called Apophis. If approved at a...

Watch: Boston Dynamics’ New Electric Atlas Robot Gets Down to Work

One of the world's most advanced humanoid robots has been all play and no work. Boston Dynamics' Atlas is famous for backflips, parkour, and...
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This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through November 2)

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Google CEO Says Over 25% of New Google Code Is Generated by AI Benj Edwards | Ars Technica "We've always used tools to build new...

What Is AI Superintelligence? Could It Destroy Humanity? And Is It Really Almost Here?

In 2014, the British philosopher Nick Bostrom published a book about the future of artificial intelligence with the ominous title Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies....

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...

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through October 26)

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...

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