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The First 3D-Printed Rocket Launch Is a Step Toward Even Greater Access to Space

Reducing the cost of space launches will be critical if we want humanity to have a more permanent presence beyond orbit. The partially successful...

AI Won’t Kill Our Jobs, It Will Kill Our Job Descriptions—and Leave Us Better Off

The hype around artificial intelligence has been building for years, and you could say it reached a crescendo with OpenAI’s recent release of ChatGPT...

Meta’s New ChatGPT-Like AI Is Fluent in the Language of Proteins—and Has Already Modeled 700 Million of Them

The race to solve every protein structure just welcomed another tech giant: Meta AI. A research offshoot of Meta, known for Facebook and Instagram, the...

Solar Panels Floating on Reservoirs Could Provide a Third of the World’s Electricity

Solar power is going to play a major role in combating climate change, but it requires huge amounts of land. Floating solar panels on...

OpenAI Says GPT-4 Is Better in Nearly Every Way. What Matters More Is Millions Will Use It

In 2020, artificial intelligence company OpenAI stunned the tech world with its GPT-3 machine learning algorithm. After ingesting a broad slice of the internet,...

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through March 18)

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE You Can Now Run a GPT-3-Level AI Model on Your Laptop, Phone, and Raspberry Pi Benj Edwards | Ars Technica "On Friday, a software developer...

A ‘Goldilocks’ Star Reveals a Previously Hidden Step in How Water Gets to Earth

Without water, life on Earth could not exist as it does today. Understanding the history of water in the universe is critical to understanding...

Could Brain-Computer Interfaces Lead to ‘Mind Control for Good’?

Of all the advanced technologies currently under development, one of the most fascinating and frightening is brain-computer interfaces. They’re fascinating because we still have...
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This Startup Says Nuclear Power Could Be Our Most Effective Climate Solution

From 1850 to 2019, human activity released 2.4 trillion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere. In 2022 alone, we released 37 billion more tons....

The First Complete Brain Map of an Insect May Reveal Secrets for Better AI

Breakthroughs don’t often happen in neuroscience, but we just had one. In a tour-de-force, an international team released the full brain connectivity map of...

Life on a Reforested Planet: How the World Will Look if We Plant a Trillion Trees

Many stories about the future are formed by imagining worst-case scenarios, then extracting lessons from them about what we should try to avoid. Much...

The Limits of Computing: Why Even in the Age of AI, Some Problems Are Just Too Difficult

Empowered by artificial intelligence technologies, computers today can engage in convincing conversations with people, compose songs, paint paintings, play chess and go, and diagnose...

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through March 11)

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE D-ID’s New Web App Gives a Face and Voice to OpenAI’s ChatGPT Aisha Malik | TechCrunch "When you open up the web app on a...

An AI Learned to Play Atari 6,000 Times Faster by Reading the Instructions

Despite impressive progress, today’s AI models are very inefficient learners, taking huge amounts of time and data to solve problems humans pick up almost...

Scientists Just Revealed the Most Detailed Geological Model of Earth’s Past 100 Million Years

Earth’s surface is the “living skin” of our planet—it connects the physical, chemical, and biological systems. Over geological time, landscapes change as this surface...

This New Material Absorbs Three Times More CO2 Than Current Carbon Capture Tech

According to the IEA, there are currently 18 direct air capture plants in operation around the world. They’re located in Europe, Canada, or the...

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