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Artificial Intelligence

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A New Photonic Computer Chip Uses Light to Slash AI Energy Costs

Shelly Fan - April 15, 2024

AI models are power hogs. As the algorithms grow and become more complex, they’re increasingly taxing current computer chips. Multiple companies have designed chips tailored...

This AI Can Design the Machinery of Life With Atomic Precision

March 8, 2024

A Google AI Watched 30,000 Hours of Video Games—Now It Makes Its Own

March 7, 2024

Amazon’s Billion-Dollar Investment Arm Targets Generative AI in Robotics

February 28, 2024

Like a Child, This Brain-Inspired AI Can Explain Its Reasoning

February 22, 2024

Amazon’s Billion-Dollar Investment Arm Targets Generative AI in Robotics

Jason Dorrier - February 28, 2024

This AI Can Design the Machinery of Life With Atomic Precision

Shelly Fan - March 8, 2024

This Mind-Reading Cap Can Translate Thoughts to Text Thanks to AI

Jason Dorrier - December 12, 2023

Why Google and Bing’s Embrace of Generative AI Could Upend the SEO Industry

Ravi Sen - October 29, 2023

Biotechnology

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This Company Is Growing Mini Livers Inside People to Fight Liver Disease

Shelly Fan - April 11, 2024

Growing a substitute liver inside a human body sounds like science fiction. Yet a patient with severe liver damage just received an injection that could...

Environmental DNA Is Everywhere. Scientists Are Gathering It All.

April 2, 2024

A New Treatment Rejuvenates Aging Immune Systems in Elderly Mice

March 29, 2024

These Plants Could Mine Valuable Metals From the Soil With Their Roots

March 28, 2024

Human Artificial Chromosomes Could Ferry Tons More DNA Cargo Into Cells

March 26, 2024

An AI-Designed Drug Is Moving Toward Approval at an Impressive Clip

Shelly Fan - March 18, 2024

Human Artificial Chromosomes Could Ferry Tons More DNA Cargo Into Cells

Shelly Fan - March 26, 2024

This AI Can Design the Machinery of Life With Atomic Precision

Shelly Fan - March 8, 2024

This Gene Increases the Risk of Alzheimer’s. Scientists Finally Know Why

Shelly Fan - March 15, 2024

Computing

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A New Photonic Computer Chip Uses Light to Slash AI Energy Costs

Shelly Fan - April 15, 2024

AI models are power hogs. As the algorithms grow and become more complex, they’re increasingly taxing current computer chips. Multiple companies have designed chips tailored...

Quantum Computers Take a Major Step With Error Correction Breakthrough

April 4, 2024

What Is a GPU? The Chips Powering the AI Boom, and Why They’re Worth Trillions

March 13, 2024

Mac at 40: Apple’s Love Affair With User Experience Sparked a Tech Revolution

January 19, 2024

Why What We Decide to Name New Technologies Is So Crucial

January 18, 2024

What Is a GPU? The Chips Powering the AI Boom, and Why They’re Worth Trillions

Conrad Sanderson - March 13, 2024

This Brain-Like IBM Chip Could Drastically Cut the Cost of AI

Shelly Fan - October 24, 2023

Metasurfaces Open the Door to Telekinesis and Telepathy With Technology

Shelly Fan - June 28, 2022

Academia.edu – $4.5M in Funding, 3M Unique Monthly Visitors – Can They Change Science Publication?

Aaron Saenz - December 11, 2011

Space

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Elon Musk Doubles Down on Mars Dreams and Details What’s Next for SpaceX’s Starship

Edd Gent - April 12, 2024

Elon Musk has long been open about his dreams of using SpaceX to spread humanity’s presence further into the solar system. And last weekend,...

3 Body Problem: Is the Universe Really a ‘Dark Forest’ Full of Hostile Aliens in Hiding?

April 9, 2024

Now We Can See the Magnetic Maelstrom Around Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole

March 27, 2024

Russia and China Want to Build a Nuclear Power Plant on the Moon

March 11, 2024

Has the Lunar Gold Rush Begun? Why the First Private Moon Landing Matters

March 1, 2024

Where Is Everyone? 4 Possible Explanations for the Fermi Paradox

Raya Bidshahri - September 2, 2019

The Biggest Simulation of the Universe Yet Stretches Back to the Big Bang

Jason Dorrier - September 17, 2021

Why Do Black Holes Twinkle? Scientists Studied 5,000 Star-Eating Behemoths to Find Out

Christian Wolf - February 9, 2023

New Results From NASA’s DART Mission Confirm We Could Deflect Deadly Asteroids

Eleanor K. Sansom - March 6, 2023

Energy

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These Plants Could Mine Valuable Metals From the Soil With Their Roots

Edd Gent - March 28, 2024

The renewable energy transition will require a huge amount of materials, and there are fears we may soon face shortages of some critical metals....

Even as the Fusion Era Comes Into View—We’re Still in the Steam Age

March 19, 2024

These Technologies Could Axe 85% of CO2 Emissions From Heavy Industry

February 2, 2024

EIA Says 40 Percent of US Electricity Is Now Emission-Free for the First Time

January 8, 2024

Scientists Fire Up the World’s Largest Fusion Reactor for the First Time

November 2, 2023

New Zealand Is About to Test Long-Range Wireless Power Transmission

Jason Dorrier - August 30, 2020

Magnetizable Concrete in Roads Could Charge Electric Cars While You Drive

Edd Gent - August 9, 2021

These Technologies Could Axe 85% of CO2 Emissions From Heavy Industry

Edd Gent - February 2, 2024

Why the Price of New Solar Electricity Fell an Incredible 89% in the Last Decade

Jason Dorrier - December 13, 2020

Future

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Elon Musk Doubles Down on Mars Dreams and Details What’s Next for SpaceX’s Starship

Edd Gent - April 12, 2024

Elon Musk has long been open about his dreams of using SpaceX to spread humanity’s presence further into the solar system. And last weekend,...

Harvard’s New Programmable Liquid Shifts Its Properties on Demand

April 10, 2024

3 Body Problem: Is the Universe Really a ‘Dark Forest’ Full of Hostile Aliens in Hiding?

April 9, 2024

Scientists Say New Hybrid Beef Rice Could Cost Just a Dollar per Pound

February 15, 2024

How Much Life Has Ever Existed on Earth, and How Much Ever Will?

January 30, 2024

19th Century French Artists Predicted The World Of The Future In This Series Of Postcards

David J. Hill - October 15, 2012

Quantum Computers Could Crack Encryption Sooner Than Expected With New Algorithm

Edd Gent - October 2, 2023

Technology Feels Like It’s Accelerating — Because It Actually Is

Alison E. Berman - March 22, 2016

A New Lab-Grown Meat Factory in Spain Will Churn Out 1,000 Metric Tons of Beef Per Year

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - June 11, 2023

Tech

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A New Photonic Computer Chip Uses Light to Slash AI Energy Costs

Shelly Fan - April 15, 2024

AI models are power hogs. As the algorithms grow and become more complex, they’re increasingly taxing current computer chips. Multiple companies have designed chips tailored...