This Bipedal Drone Robot Can Walk, Fly, Skateboard, and Slackline
Most animals are limited to either walking, flying, or swimming, with a handful of lucky species whose physiology allows them to cross over. A...
How Musicologists and Scientists Used AI to Complete Beethoven’s Unfinished 10th Symphony
When Ludwig van Beethoven died in 1827, he was three years removed from the completion of his Ninth Symphony, a work heralded by many...
NASA’s Mission to Crash a Spacecraft Into an Asteroid Launches Next Month
In March of this year, a quarter-mile-wide asteroid flew through space at a speed of 77,000 miles per hour. It was five times farther...
Moonshot Project Aims to Understand and Beat Cancer Using Protein Maps
Understanding cancer is like assembling IKEA furniture.
Hear me out. Both start with individual pieces that make up the final product. For a cabinet, it’s...
Is Reality a Game of Quantum Mirrors? A New Theory Suggests...
Imagine you sit down and pick up your favorite book. You look at the image on the front cover, run your fingers across the...
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How Quantum Computers Can Be Used to Build Better Quantum Computers
Using computer simulations to design new chips played a crucial role in the rapid improvements in processor performance we’ve experienced in recent decades. Now...
The Music of Proteins Is Made Audible Through a Computer Program That Learns From Chopin
With the right computer program, proteins become pleasant music.
There are many surprising analogies between proteins, the basic building blocks of life, and musical notation....
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through October 2)
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How DeepMind Is Reinventing the Robot
Tom Chivers | IEEE Spectrum
"Having conquered Go and protein folding, the company turns to a really hard problem. ...To...
OpenAI’s GPT-3 Algorithm Is Now Producing Billions of Words a Day
When OpenAI released its huge natural-language algorithm GPT-3 last summer, jaws dropped. Coders and developers with special access to an early API rapidly discovered...
Scientists Created Holograms You Can Touch—You Could Soon Shake a Virtual Colleague’s Hand
The TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation introduced millions of people to the idea of a holodeck: an immersive, realistic 3D holographic projection...
New Hybrid Coral Reefs Use Wave Energy to Transform Sea Salt to Stone
Climate change is wreaking havoc on land via extreme weather events like wildfires, hurricanes, floods, and record-high temperatures. Glaciers are melting and sea levels...
China’s Cracking Down on Kids’ Screen Time, and the Implications Could Be Far-Reaching
Screens are taking over our lives. According to market research firm eMarketer, in 2020 adults in the US spent an average of 7 hours...
Scientists Completed the First Human Genome 20 Years Ago. How Far Have We Come,...
If the Human Genome Project (HGP) was an actual human, he or she would be a revolutionary whiz kid. A prodigy in the vein...
This Amazing GIF Shows a Million Individual Neurons Firing in a Mouse’s Brain
The brain is the center of every human being's world, but many of its inner workings are yet mysterious. Slowly, scientists are pulling back...
