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Artificial Intelligence
Why Calling for a ‘Kill Switch’ Is the Wrong Way to Think About Reining in AI
Trent Wintermeier
This AI Model Designs Enzymes With Atomic Precision
Shelly Fan
New AI Tool Could Help Scientists Make ‘Rare’ Cross-Disciplinary Leaps
Edd Gent
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This AI Reconstructs What You’re Looking at From a Brain Scan
This Tool Turns Scientific Articles Into Agents That Answer Questions and Collaborate
The ‘WarGames’ Problem: Computer Science Has Long Understood What It Takes to Keep AI Under Control
How Would AI Actually Kill All Humans? Here Are the Top 5 Scenarios
A Digital Cell Predicts Which Drugs Will Be Most Effective in Deadly Breast Cancer
Virtual Biotech Company Puts 37,000 AI Agents to Work on Drug Discovery
Biotechnology
This AI Model Designs Enzymes With Atomic Precision
Shelly Fan
Blind Patients Recover Partial Vision in Gene Therapy Trial
Shelly Fan
The Evolving Quest to Build Life in a Lab
Sarah Scoles
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Radical New Tactic Would Stop Deadly Cancers Before They Start
We’ve Always Copied Nature. Now We Can Search It.
Epigenetic Editing Could Wipe Out Chronic Hepatitis B Infections
Google DeepMind Gives AI-Designed Proteins a Watermark
A Digital Cell Predicts Which Drugs Will Be Most Effective in Deadly Breast Cancer
Three-Year-Old Boy’s Metastatic Cancer Disappears After Two Shots of Experimental Cell Therapy
Computing
US Launches $215 Million Race to Build an Error-Corrected Quantum Computer by 2028
Edd Gent
Heat Is an Orbital Data Center’s Greatest Foe. These Tiles Dump It at the Source.
Shelly Fan
Europe Approves Bionic Eye to Restore Vision Lost to Blindness
Edd Gent
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OpenAI Agent Breaks Free and Hacks Hugging Face
Orbital Data Centers Are Seductive on Paper, but They Face Daunting Challenges in Reality
In the Scramble to Power AI, Investors Bet $140 Million on Data Centers at Sea
Quantum Computers Are Coming to Break Cryptography Faster Than Anyone Expected
Printed Neurons That Mimic Brain Cells Could Slash AI’s Energy Bill
Scientists Grow Electronics Inside the Brains of Living Mice
Space
Star Catcher Is About to Beam Power Between Two Satellites for the First Time
Edd Gent
Europe’s First Private Rocket Reaches Orbit
Edd Gent
Heat Is an Orbital Data Center’s Greatest Foe. These Tiles Dump It at the Source.
Shelly Fan
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Spaceflight Nears Its Steamship Era
The Milky Way Was Rewired by a Cataclysmic Collision Billions of Years Ago. Now It Is on Course for Another.
Orbital Data Centers Are Seductive on Paper, but They Face Daunting Challenges in Reality
Japan Thinks Swarms of Transformer Robots Could Explore the Moon
Orbital Airbag Could Shield Earth From Devastating Solar Storms
NASA Unveils Its $20 Billion Moon Base Plan—and a Nuclear Spacecraft for Mars
Future
Why Calling for a ‘Kill Switch’ Is the Wrong Way to Think About Reining in AI
Trent Wintermeier
The Evolving Quest to Build Life in a Lab
Sarah Scoles
We’ve Always Copied Nature. Now We Can Search It.
Singularity
Popular
Google DeepMind Gives AI-Designed Proteins a Watermark
How Would AI Actually Kill All Humans? Here Are the Top 5 Scenarios
Content for Clicks: AI Is Tearing Up the Web’s Social Contract
An ‘AI Legal Team’ Has Won Its First Case. It’s a Rare Victory for Access to Justice.
Long Foreseen, the Problem of AI Alignment Is Finally Reality. Solving It Won’t Be Easy.
Scrapping a New Gas Car for an Electric One Could Cut Emissions, Study Finds
Tech
The Real AI Disruption Isn’t the Technology. It’s the Company.
Singularity
Monochrome No More: New Night-Vision Glasses Show Color
Edd Gent
This DNA Switch Could Control Molecular Machines
Edd Gent
Popular
These Seven AI Rings Translate Sign Language in Real Time
AI Companies Are Betting Billions on AI Scaling Laws. Will Their Wager Pay Off?
Super Precise 3D Printer Uses a Mosquito’s Needle-Like Mouth as a Nozzle
Is the AI Bubble About to Burst? What to Watch for as the Markets Wobble
OpenAI Slipped Shopping Into 800 Million ChatGPT Users’ Chats—Here’s Why That Matters
Scientists Hope 3D-Printed Skin Can Bring On-Demand Treatment for Serious Injuries
Robotics
The Dawn of the Age of the Exoskeleton
Ildar Farkhatdinov
This Robot Dog Crushed a Marathon Without Stopping to Recharge
Shelly Fan
Anthropic’s Claude Can Now Autonomously Run Science Experiments With Lab Equipment
Edd Gent
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Unitree Claims New Humanoid Robot Outruns Usain Bolt
In a First, a Humanoid Robot Performed Live Surgery Under a Surgeon’s Control
Companies Could Soon Staff ‘Stubbornly Local’ Jobs With Workers 4,000 Miles Away
Japan Thinks Swarms of Transformer Robots Could Explore the Moon
AI Can Now Design and Run Thousands of Experiments Without Human Hands. We Aren’t Ready for the Risk to Biosecurity.
New Algae Robots Swarm Like Locusts at the Flick of a Switch
Science
New AI Tool Could Help Scientists Make ‘Rare’ Cross-Disciplinary Leaps
Edd Gent
The Oldest Living Land Animal Is 194. DNA May Now Reveal the Secret to His Longevity.
Shelly Fan
This AI Reconstructs What You’re Looking at From a Brain Scan
Edd Gent
Popular
This Tool Turns Scientific Articles Into Agents That Answer Questions and Collaborate
Mini Brains Grown for Five Years Matured Like Human Brains
We May Be Wrong About How the Brain Stores Memory
Million-Person Study Finds a Rare Gene Variant That Slashes the Risk of Diabetes and Heart Disease
Why Do Some People Never Get Cancer? The Answer May Be in Their Blood
Scientists Find a Surprising New Way Stress Cascades From Brain to Body
