A Virus Just Wiped Out Antibiotic-Resistant Infection in an Immunocompromised Patient
When Dr. Jessica Little laid eyes on the 56-year-old man, Mr. M, she immediately knew he was in bad shape.
Striking, painful red welts dotted...
Nanomagnetic Computing Could Drastically Cut AI’s Energy Use
As the Internet of Things expands, engineers want to embed AI into everything, but the amount of energy it requires is a challenge for...
The Ideal Qubit? Future Quantum Computers Could Crunch Data With Single Electrons on Neon...
The digital world—your laptop, the internet it's connected to, and the companies that make it all go—sits on a foundation of bits. These bits...
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through May 7)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Meta Has Built a Massive New Language AI—and It’s Giving It Away for Free
Will Douglas Heaven | MIT Technology Review
"Meta’s AI lab has...
Rapid DNA Sequencing Tech Breaks the Speed Record for Reading Whole...
For children suffering from rare diseases, it usually takes years to receive a diagnosis. This “diagnostic odyssey” is filled with multiple referrals and a...
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Scientists Used AI to Create an Enzyme That Breaks Down Plastic in a Week...
Earth has a plastics problem, and not many great options to solve it. Plastic is everywhere: food, toiletries, and cleaning products come encased in...
Astronomers Discovered the Brightest Radio Pulsar Outside Our Galaxy
When a star explodes and dies in a supernova, it takes on a new life of sorts.
Pulsars are the extremely rapidly rotating objects left...
The US Just Put $3 Billion Towards Securing Its Battery Supply Chain
In the coming years and decades, critical minerals will start to rival oil and gas as the world’s most sought-after commodities, and the US...
A New Gene Editing Tool Could Rival CRISPR, and Makes Millions...
With CRISPR’s meteoric rise as a gene editing marvel, it’s easy to forget its lowly origins: it was first discovered as a quirk of...
The Brain Has a Built-in System to Keep Unwanted Memories Out, Study Finds
We all have memories we’d rather forget. Yet too often they bubble up into our consciousness. That gaffe at work or during an interview?...
Scientists Just Cracked One-Way Superconductivity, Thought Impossible for Over 100 Years
Today's computers guzzle large amounts of electricity, raising concerns about the climate impact of technology. A breakthrough in superconducting electronics could reduce the power...
Blasting Out Earth’s Location in Hopes of Reaching Aliens Is Controversial—Two Teams of Scientists...
If a person is lost in the wilderness, they have two options. They can search for civilization, or they could make themselves easy to...
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through April 30)
COMPUTING
This Two-Inch Diamond Disc Could Hold a Staggering Billion Blu-Ray's Worth of Data
Andrew Liszewski | Gizmodo
"Using quantum memory techniques, it’s estimated that a two-inch...
The UK’s First Autonomous Passenger Bus Started Road Tests This Week
Driverless buses may beat driverless cars in becoming a commonplace mode of transportation. It would make sense; buses run on fixed routes, always stop...
