Scientists Just Achieved Room Temperature Superconductivity for the First Time
Superconductivity could be the key to groundbreaking new technologies in energy, computing, and transportation, but so far it only occurs in materials chilled close...
When Did We Become Fully Human? What Fossils and DNA Tell Us About the...
When did something like us first appear on the planet? It turns out there’s remarkably little agreement on this question. Fossils and DNA suggest...
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through October 17)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
A Radical New Technique Lets AI Learn With Practically No Data
Karen Hao | MIT Technology Review
"Shown photos of a horse and a rhino,...
NASA’s About to Try Grabbing a Chunk of Asteroid to Bring to Earth—and You...
If you’ve seen the movie The Martian, you no doubt remember the rescue scene, in which (spoiler alert!) Matt Damon launches himself off Mars...
How AI Will Make Drug Discovery Low-Cost, Ultra-Fast, and Personalized
If you had to guess how long it takes for a drug to go from an idea to your pharmacy, what would you guess?...
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Estonia Is a ‘Digital Republic’—What That Means and Why It May Be Everyone’s Future
People around the globe have been watching the buildup to the US election with disbelief. Particularly confusing to many is the furor over postal...
Alphabet’s New Moonshot Is to Transform How We Grow Food
In the 1940s, agronomist Norman Borlaug was tasked by the US government with improving the yield of wheat plants in Mexico. The thinking was...
Scientists Found a New Way to Control the Brain With Light—No Surgery Required
If I had to place money on a neurotech that will win the Nobel Prize, it’s optogenetics.
The technology uses light of different frequencies to...
To Find a Coronavirus Vaccine Faster, Should We Deliberately Infect Thousands...
“First, do no harm” is a core principle for all physicians. Yet with the new coronavirus wreaking havoc across the globe, the medical community...
Space Mining Should Be a Global Project—But It’s Not Starting Off That Way
Exploiting the resources of outer space might be key to the future expansion of the human species. But researchers argue that the US is...
Watch a Jet Suit Pilot Glide Up a Mountain in a Test for Wilderness...
A few years ago, I saw a guy in a jet suit take off in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. The roar was deafening,...
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through October 10)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
GPT-3 Bot Spends a Week Replying on Reddit, Starts Talking About the Illuminati
Rhett Jones | Gizmodo
"..the length of the replies was especially unusual...
A Ridiculously Huge New Solar Farm Just Came Online in China
The Chinese economy has suffered as a result of the pandemic, but one sector that’s forging full-steam ahead is energy. Last week saw the...
A New Factory in France Will Mass-Produce Bugs as Food
Though the world’s population is no longer predicted to grow as much as we thought by the end of this century, there are still...
