As the sense of urgency around climate change intensifies, most of the focus is on shifting energy production away from fossil fuels and electrifying...
Cryptocurrencies have had a calamitous year, littered with hacks, bankruptcies, and precipitously declining prices. What went wrong—and are there any bright spots to look...
In 2017, the Scottish philosopher William MacAskill coined the name “longtermism” to describe the idea “that positively affecting the long-run future is a key...
Big companies like Amazon and Walmart have recently been testing drone delivery, flying customers’ orders to them through traffic-less skies. Given the volume of...
Exercise more. That’s usually my (and many other peoples’) top New Year’s resolution.
But it’s drizzly with bone-chilling winds howling outside. And I’m wrapped in...
A rapid transition to renewable power is essential to avoid the worst effects of climate change, but governments have been lukewarm in their commitment....
Artificial intelligence that surpasses our own intelligence sounds like the stuff from science fiction books or films. What do experts in the field of...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Generative AI Is Changing Everything. But What’s Left When the Hype Is Gone?
Will Douglas Heaven | MIT Technology Review
"The exciting truth is, we...
American scientists have announced what they have called a major breakthrough in a long-elusive goal of creating energy from nuclear fusion.
The US Department of...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
ChatGPT Proves AI Is Finally Mainstream—and Things Are Only Going to Get Weirder
James Vincent | The Verge
"OpenAI has previously sold access to GPT-3...
AI hates uncertainty. Yet to navigate our unpredictable world, it needs to learn to make choices with imperfect information—as we do every single day.
DeepMind...
BIOTECH
Biotech Labs Are Using AI Inspired by DALL-E to Invent New Drugs
Will Douglas Heaven | MIT Technology Review
"These protein generators can be directed to...
Wormholes might sound like something that belongs in a Star Trek episode rather than a research paper, but scientists just simulated one on Google’s...
Austin, Texas-based 3D printing construction company ICON has gotten some pretty significant projects off the ground in recent years, from a 50-home development in...
We all imagine better versions of ourselves. Smarter. More attractive. Physically nimble to rock the dance floor, conquer martial arts, or run that ultramarathon....
In his latest book, the oncologist and acclaimed writer Siddhartha Mukherjee focuses his narrative microscope on the cell, the elementary building block from which...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Meta's 'Cicero' AI Trounced Humans at Diplomacy Without Revealing Its True Identity
Mack DeGeurin | Gizmodo
"Meta says Cicero more than doubled the average score...
The early 2020s have been a chaotic time, with seemingly one crisis after another befalling humanity: the Covid-19 pandemic, inflation and supply chain upheaval,...
Artificial intelligence is on a tear. Machines can speak, write, play games, and generate original images, video, and music. But as AI's capabilities have...
FUTURE
Picture Limitless Creativity at Your Fingertips
Kevin Kelly | Wired
"For the first time in history, humans can conjure up everyday acts of creativity on demand,...
Human spaceflight has suffered a significant lull since the groundbreaking Apollo missions of the 1960s and 70s. But that looks set to change following...
In 2020, cultured meat startup Memphis Meats raised $161 million in Series B funding, making it the most-funded startup in the industry. The investment...
What was science fiction is now scientific reality: with a series of targeted electrical zaps to the spinal cord, nine paralyzed people immediately walked...
BIOTECH
CRISPR Cancer Trial Success Paves the Way for Personalized Treatments
Heidi Ledford | Nature
"A small clinical trial has shown that researchers can use CRISPR gene...
An enormous neutrino observatory buried deep in the Antarctic ice has discovered only the second extra-galactic source of the elusive particles ever found.
In results...
