Memories are finicky. I’ve been touring Atlantic Canada for the past three weeks, and already my recollection of the trip—dates, places, foods, adventures—doesn’t match...
With recent advances in artificial intelligence and robotics technology, there is growing interest in developing and marketing household robots capable of handling a variety...
BLOCKCHAIN
The Merge Is Here: Ethereum Has Switched to Proof of Stake
Rebecca Ackermann | MIT Technology Review
"Regardless of what happens next, Ethereum’s much-anticipated shift to...
Even as more offshore wind projects launch and the turbines they use get bigger, there are questions around offshore wind’s economic viability. Unsurprisingly, hauling...
Being able to decode brainwaves could help patients who have lost the ability to speak to communicate again, and could ultimately provide novel ways...
The push to move away from combustion engines and toward electric vehicles is getting stronger, with US states and multiple countries banning the sale...
With its inquisitive eyes, furry snout, and lush pelt, the mouse—nicknamed Xiao Zhu, or Little Bamboo—nimbly perched on a bamboo stalk, striking a pretty...
NEUROSCIENCE
A Memory Prosthesis Could Restore Memory in People With Damaged Brains
Jessica Hamzelou | MIT Technology Review
"A unique form of brain stimulation appears to boost...
How many intelligent civilizations should there be in our galaxy right now? In 1961, the US astrophysicist Frank Drake, who passed away on September...
Housing the world’s rapidly-growing population will require massive urban expansion and lots of concrete and steel, but these materials have a huge carbon footprint....
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
An AI-generated Artwork’s State Fair Victory Fuels Arguments Over ‘What Art Is'
James Vincent | The Verge
"The rise of text-to-AI image generators has only...
The study of present-day species has delivered a clear verdict on humanity’s place in the living world: right alongside chimpanzees and bonobos. However, this...
Even before labor shortages and supply chain issues began plaguing the economy, the food service industry was bringing in robots. From flipping burgers to...
This week, scientists announced that the James Webb Space Telescope, which among its many talents can analyze the atmospheres of exoplanets, just confirmed the...
Most people older than 30 probably remember doing research with good old-fashioned encyclopedias. You’d pull a heavy volume from the shelf, check the index...
People have been dreaming of robot butlers for decades, but one of the biggest barriers has been getting machines to understand our instructions. Google...
BIOTECH
De-extinction Company Aims to Resurrect the Tasmanian Tiger
Kate Evans | Scientific American
"The last known thylacine spent its days pacing a zoo cage in Hobart,...
Humans have been reshaping the planet’s land for millennia by clearing wildlands to grow crops and raise livestock. As a result, humans have cleared one-third...
In recent years, technology has worked wonders helping blind or visually impaired people regain their sight, perhaps most notably via the use of CRISPR...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Self-Taught AI Shows Similarities to How the Brain Works
Anil Ananthaswamy | Quanta
"i'I think there's no doubt that 90% of what the brain does...
Atomic clocks, combined with precise astronomical measurements, have revealed that the length of a day is suddenly getting longer, and scientists don’t know why.
This...
NEUROSCIENCE
The Age of Brain-Computer Interfaces Is on the Horizon
Grace Brown | Wired
"The real novelty with Synchron’s device, he says, is that surgeons don’t have...
Nuclear power could play an important role in decarbonizing the energy sector, but reactors are simply too expensive and complicated to roll out quickly....
Childhood home videos can be heartwarming, hilarious, or downright embarrassing. But the tapes contain an invaluable resource: snippets of a child’s journey as they...
Researchers have been trying to build artificial synapses for years in the hope of getting close to the unrivaled computational performance of the human...
Australian scientists are making strides towards solving one of the greatest mysteries of the universe: the nature of invisible dark matter.
The ORGAN Experiment, Australia’s...
