Yearly Archives: 2018

Gene Therapy Had a Breakthrough 2017—2018 May Be Even Better

Shelly Fan - January 9, 2018

Gene therapy had a hell of a 2017. After decades of promises but failed deliveries, last year saw the field hitting a series of...

Business Design Is a Powerful Tool for Breaking Down Bureaucracy

Lisa Kay Solomon - January 9, 2018

Designing the right business model and value proposition is fundamental to the success of any endeavor—yet rarely have governments used these practices. We caught up...

New Research Suggests Immunity to CRISPR Gene Editing Poses a Challenge

Thomas Hornigold - January 8, 2018

CRISPR-Cas9 is the talk of the town in biotechnology. There is a huge amount of public interest in the possibilities provided by this new...

The World Needs More Scientists: How We Can Train Millions in Virtual Labs

Aaron Frank - January 8, 2018

California wild fires, melting arctic ice caps, and record setting temperatures suggest our climate is dramatically changing with potentially catastrophic outcomes for our species....

If Work Dominated Your Every Moment Would Life Be Worth Living?

Andrew Taggart - January 7, 2018

Imagine that work had taken over the world. It would be the centre around which the rest of life turned. Then all else would...

This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through January 6)

Singularity Hub Staff - January 6, 2018

ROBOTS The Year Robots Backflipped Their Way Into Our Hearts Will Knight | MIT Technology Review “Legged robots remain very expensive and difficult to commercialize. So it...

Why the World Is Still Getting Better—and That’s Likely to Continue

Sveta McShane - January 5, 2018

If you read or watch the news, you’ll likely think the world is falling to pieces. Trends like terrorism, climate change, and a growing...

This Unbelievable Research on Human Hibernation Could Get Us to Mars

Gemma Milne - January 4, 2018

Journeying to Mars is seldom out of the news these days. From Elon Musk releasing plans for his new rocket to allow SpaceX to...

AI Uses Titan Supercomputer to Create Deep Neural Nets in Less Than a Day

Peter Rejcek - January 3, 2018

You don’t have to dig too deeply into the archive of dystopian science fiction to uncover the horror that intelligent machines might unleash. The...

World Poverty Has Plummeted—But Will It Ever Disappear?

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - January 2, 2018

Few will deny 2017 was a rough year. But believe it or not, we’re still living in the best time ever to be alive,...

When Will We Finally Achieve True Artificial Intelligence?

Thomas Hornigold - January 1, 2018

The field of artificial intelligence goes back a long way, but many consider it was officially born when a group of scientists at Dartmouth...

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This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through December 21)

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How to Be Healthy at 100: Centenarian Stem Cells Could Hold the Key