The varied universes of science fiction often offer inspiration for emerging technologies, or at least fitting leads for articles to describe them. Take the...
Scarcely a day goes by without another headline about neural networks: some new task that deep learning algorithms can excel at, approaching or even...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
DeepMind Beats Pros at Starcraft in Another Triumph for Bots
Tom Simonite | Wired
"DeepMind’s feat is the most complex yet in a long train...
Researchers have had a rare opportunity to see how conditions on the International Space Station translated to changes in gene expression by comparing identical...
Swarms of microrobots will scuttle along beneath our roads and pavements, finding and fixing leaky pipes and faulty cables. Thanks to their efforts, we...
Healthcare today is reactive, retrospective, bureaucratic, and expensive. It's sick care, not healthcare.
But that is radically changing at an exponential rate.
Through this multi-part blog series...
2018 was bonkers for science.
From a woman who gave birth using a transplanted uterus, to the infamous CRISPR baby scandal, to forensics adopting consumer-based...
FUTURE
The Most Powerful Person in Silicon Valley
Katrina Brooker | Fast Company
"Billionaire Masayoshi Son—not Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, or Mark Zuckerberg—has the most audacious vision...
2018 was when neuroscience made the impossible possible.
There was the dazzling array of crazy neurotech: paralyzed patients shopped and texted using an Android tablet...
Drones. Self-driving cars. Flying robo taxis. If the headlines of the last few years are to be believed, terrestrial transportation in the future will...
I recently discovered it’s possible for someone in their 20s to feel old—just mention Microsoft’s Clippy to anyone born after the late 90s. Weirdly,...
Powerful surveillance cameras have crept into public spaces. We are filmed and photographed hundreds of times a day. To further raise the stakes, the...
Facial recognition technology has progressed to point where it now interprets emotions in facial expressions. This type of analysis is increasingly used in daily...
Almost every living creature on Earth relies on photosynthesis for its survival, but the process is far from efficient. Now some clever genetic engineering...
When Dr. He Jiankui announced the birth of CRISPR-edited babies last month, the world grappled with how to handle the aftermath.
Should journals overlook his...
PwC, the global consulting and assurance firm, recently signalled its entrance into the cryptocurrency world by announcing a partnership with decentralized lending platform Cred....
The pharmaceutical industry churns out dozens of new drugs and biological products every year. Most are small tweaks to something previously approved by the...
Dr. Thomas Lehner was tired of his research repeatedly hitting a wall.
A scientist at the National Institute of Mental Health, Lehner studies the genetic...
In September 2018, a lab-based study published in Nature Biotechnology confirmed what many had long believed possible. The experiment involved cages of a few...
