When astronaut Chris Hadfield serenaded the Earth with Bowie’s Space Oddity, many of us got cracking with back-of-the-envelope calculations attempting to figure out how...
FUTURE
Protesting Climate Change, Young People Take to Streets in a Global Strike
Somini Sengupta | The New York Times
"Anxious about their future on a hotter...
Even if the world manages to keep to the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global mean temperatures to 2°C above pre-industrial levels, climate change...
The narrative that often accompanies most stories about artificial intelligence these days is how machines will disrupt any number of industries, from healthcare to...
BIOTECH
Meet the 'Artificial Embryos' Being Called Uncanny and Spectacular
Antonio Regalado | MIT Technology Review
"...scientists believe that it might not be long before they can...
Playbook for the Cult of Isis, herbal health instructions, details of the benefits of therapeutic bathing, or a written history of speaking in tongues....
Projects that map the billions of connections within entire brains have always had a tinge of grandiosity. Yet to connectomists, these projects aren’t just...
Elon Musk usually isn’t one for advocating regulation and oversight.
But when it comes to AI, he doesn’t mince words. AI is humanity’s “biggest existential...
Neurons are a collective bunch. Although each neuron receives, processes, and passes on information individually, the electrical spikes only make sense when melded together...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
A Molecule Designed by AI Exhibits 'Druglike' Qualities
Gregory Barber | Wired
"Lots of people are designing machine learning pipelines to produce virtual molecules, but...
Augmented reality is about to add a digital intelligence layer to our every surrounding, transforming retail, manufacturing, education, tourism, real estate, and almost every...
Cancer’s impenetrable secrets partly rely on its mysterious molecular history.
As cells turn to the dark side, a whirlwind of DNA changes gradually accumulate. Like...
To most of us, zapping neurons with electricity to artificially “incept” memories, sensation, and movement still sounds crazy. But in some brain labs, that...
