Scientists have long made digital simulations of the universe on the grandest scales. Now they're turning their attention to smaller systems—though those systems are...
NEUROSCIENCE
Does Life Flash Before Your Eyes? Brain Scan of Dying Man Suggests It's Possible
Nicola Davis | The Guardian
"The team says analysis of recordings of...
Every person alive on the planet today is descended from people who lived as hunter-gatherers in Africa.
The continent is the cradle of human origins...
The Covid-19 pandemic brought into sharp focus how unavoidably global the world economy has become. Production freezes on one side of the globe wreaked...
To some aging researchers, the secret to longevity is simple: eat less.
Decades of research have shown that moderately restricting calories, without any other intervention,...
The proliferation of deepfake technology is raising concerns that AI could start to warp our sense of shared reality. New research suggests AI-synthesized faces...
It used to be the stuff of science fiction: bringing a long-dead species back from extinction by painstakingly piecing together its full DNA sequence,...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
DeepMind Has Trained an AI to Control Nuclear Fusion
Amit Katwala | Wired
"DeepMind’s AI was able to autonomously figure out how to create these...
Two babies have received the first-ever gene therapy for Tay-Sachs disease after over 14 years of development.
Tay-Sachs is a severe neurological disease caused by...
Before the pandemic started (ah, those glorious days…) a collective panic was mounting over automation and robots gradually replacing workers in various fields, or...
Michel Roccati never thought he’d walk again, much less swim, cycle, or paddle a kayak. A terrifying motorcycle collision in 2017 damaged his spinal...
A couple months ago, friends and business contacts started asking me for a crash course on my professional research studying virtual environments. Their interest...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Computer Scientists Prove Why Bigger Neural Networks Do Better
Mordechai Rorvig | Quanta
"Fundamental mathematical results had suggested that networks should only need to be...
The global supply chain is currently experiencing all kinds of glitches, from material shortages to labor shortages and beyond. Moving goods from point A...
For children suffering from rare diseases, it usually takes years to receive a diagnosis. This “diagnostic odyssey” is filled with multiple referrals and a...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
DeepMind Says Its New AI Coding Engine Is as Good as an Average Human Programmer
James Vincent | The Verge
"DeepMind has created an AI...
Our eyes are continuously bombarded by an enormous amount of visual information—millions of shapes, colors, and ever-changing motion all around us. For the brain,...
Once counterculture staples, LSD and magic mushrooms are starting to trip out another world: psychiatry. A small—but rapidly growing—group of doctors is embracing the...
Quantum computers could cause unprecedented disruption in both good and bad ways, from cracking the encryption that secures our data to solving some of...
VIRTUAL REALITY
Can We Prove the World Isn’t a Simulation?
David Chalmers | Nautilus
"You might think you have definitive evidence that you’re not . I think...
Meta is building a new supercomputer to train enormous machine learning algorithms. Though only partially complete, the AI Research Supercluster (RSC) already ranks among...
You may think the metaverse will be a bunch of interconnected virtual spaces—the world wide web but accessed through virtual reality. This is largely...
Quantum computers made from the same raw materials as standard computer chips hold obvious promise, but so far they've struggled with high error rates....
The Earth Biogenome Project, a global consortium that aims to sequence the genomes of all complex life on Earth (some 1.8 million described species)...
This week, astrophysicists presented the biggest map of the universe yet.
Having nailed down the position of 7.5 million galaxies, the map is larger and...
BIOTECH
In a First, Man Receives a Heart From a Genetically Altered Pig
Roni Caryn Rabin | The New York Times
"A 57-year-old man with life-threatening heart...
Autonomous delivery was already on multiple companies’ research and development agenda before the pandemic, but when people stopped wanting to leave their homes it...
All memory storage devices, from your brain to the RAM in your computer, store information by changing their physical qualities. Over 130 years ago,...
