From autonomous cars to flying taxis to electric-powered aircraft, technological innovations in transportation vehicles seem to be moving faster than Elon Musk’s express loop...
Our team at Stanford University has just figured out the recipe for converting blood cells from adults directly into nerve cells, or neurons.
You may...
Today, there is a crisis of trust in science. Many people—including politicians and, yes, even presidents—publicly express doubts about the validity of scientific findings....
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
What It's Like to Watch an IBM AI Successfully Debate Humans
Dieter Bohn | The Verge
"It looks like a huge leap beyond that other...
What if we could generate novel molecules to target any disease, overnight, ready for clinical trials?
Imagine leveraging machine learning to accomplish with 50 people...
Jennifer Dulski is an entrepreneur, social impact change agent, and business leader. Dulski is currently the head of Facebook Groups, which helps more than...
Sophia's uncanny-valley face, made of Hanson Robotics’ patented Frubber, is rapidly becoming an iconic image in the field of artificial intelligence. She has been...
I once asked a deep learning researcher what he’d like for Christmas.
His answer? “More labeled datasets.”
Nerd jokes aside, the lack of so-called “labeled” training...
Pulling things from thin air is generally considered a magic trick. But several recent research papers suggest we could soon be extracting valuable resources...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
This Wild, AI-Generated Film Is the Next Step in 'Whole-Movie Puppetry'
Sam Machkovech | Ars Technica
"Their plan required Benjamin to do the following: cobble...
Even before she was born, Elianna Constantino had already cheated death.
Elianna has a rare inherited blood disorder called alpha thalassemia major, which prevents her...
If you’ve done any research into climate change, you’re almost certainly familiar with the Keeling Curve. This sawtoothed upward curve tracks the inexorable increase...
Neural networks running on GPUs have achieved some amazing advances in artificial intelligence, but the two are accidental bedfellows. IBM researchers hope a new...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
The World's Most Powerful Supercomputer Is Tailor Made for the AI Era
Martin Giles | MIT Technology Review
"The team at Oak Ridge says Summit...
The world’s first stop sign appeared in Michigan around 1915, decades after the first privately owned passenger car came into being. Ever since, laws...
From space colonization to resurrection of dinosaurs to machine intelligence, the most awe-inspiring visions of humanity’s future are typically born from science fiction.
But among...
BIOTECH
Gene Therapy Is Saving Children’s Lives—but Screening to Discover Who Needs It Is Lagging Behind
Emily Mullin | MIT Technology Review
“The company behind the drug,...
Any Star Wars fan knows that the chances of successfully navigating an asteroid field are approximately 3,720 to 1. The odds are probably significantly...
EyeWire, neuroscience’s most audacious experiment, just opened up a digital museum.
Constructed with the help of a quarter million gamers, EyeWire Museum is one-of-a-kind: the...
While the popular phrase “disrupt yourself before someone else disrupts you” is often meant for organizations, Whitney Johnson believes that people should be in...
As technology has progressed, humans have become ever more powerful. With this power comes great opportunity and great risk. Nowhere is this clearer than...
Advances in biotechnology over the past decade have brought rapid progress in the fields of medicine, food, ecology, and neuroscience, among others. With this progress...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
How the Enlightenment Ends
Henry A. Kissinger | The Atlantic
“Paradoxically, as the world becomes more transparent, it will also become increasingly mysterious. What will...
Earlier this month, I participated in a discussion/debate at the Vatican on the topic of “The Morality of Immortality.”
The discussion was moderated by CNN...
He isolated DNA from Egyptian mummies. He discovered the Denisovans, an extinct ancient human species, by sequencing DNA from a tiny bone fragment. He...
Jonah Sachs is a storyteller, entrepreneur, and “unsafe thinker.”
Sachs is the founder and former CEO of Free Range studios, a pioneering creative firm that...
Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin were designed to be efficient, low-friction alternatives to traditional financial systems. But it seems their creators maybe didn’t think too hard...
TRANSPORTATION
Elon Musk Presents His Tunnel Vision to the People of LA
Jack Stewart and Aarian Marshall | Wired
“Now, Musk wants to build this new, 2.1-mile...
From a first-principles perspective, the task of feeding eight billion people boils down to converting energy from the sun into chemical energy in our...
Recently, roughly 200 eminent scientists assembled in Boston. Their agenda? Creating “superhero” human cells impervious to all viral attacks and possibly other killers—radiation, freezing,...
