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Scientists Crack How Gravity Affects Antimatter: What That Means for Our Understanding of the Universe

A substance called antimatter is at the heart of one of the greatest mysteries of the universe. We know that every particle has an...

Have We Already Recorded Proof of Alien Civilizations? There’s Only One Way to Know for Sure

My college laptop was slow. It didn't help that the internet was too. Neither fact distracted me from two crucial tasks: downloading music and...

Transgenic Silkworms Spin Spider Silk 6x Tougher Than Kevlar

The other day I dove headfirst into a spiderweb while half-asleep inside my camper van. Screams aside, the logical part of me marveled at how...

You’ll Soon Be Able to Buy Genetically Engineered Glow-in-the-Dark Petunias

Biotechnology is often advertised as the solution to world hunger or a way to cure disease. But new glow-in-the-dark house plants suggest it can...

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through September 23)

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OpenAI’s Dall-E 3 Is an Art Generator Powered by ChatGPT Will Knight | Wired "Dall-E 3 will...let users refine a creation through ChatGPT, as if...

The Limits of Our Personal Experience and the Value of Statistics

It’s tempting to believe that we can simply rely on personal experience to develop our understanding of the world. But that’s a mistake. The...

DeepMind AI Hunts Down the DNA Mutations Behind Genetic Disease

Proteins are like Spider-Man in the multiverse. The underlying story is the same: each building block of a protein is based on a three-letter DNA...

Agility’s New Factory Can Crank Out 10,000 Humanoid Robots a Year

Simple robots have long been a manufacturing staple, but more advanced robots—think Boston Dynamics' Atlas—have mostly been bespoke creations in the lab. That's begun...
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Party Drug MDMA Inches Closer to Breakthrough Approval for PTSD

MDMA doesn’t have the best reputation. Known as “ecstasy” or “molly,” the drug is synonymous with rave culture: all-night electronic beats and choreographed laser...

Flowering Plants Survived the Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid—and May Outlive Us

If you looked up 66 million years ago you might have seen, for a split second, a bright light as a mountain-sized asteroid burned...

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through September 16)

ROBOTICS This Driverless Car Company Is Using Chatbots to Make Its Vehicles Smarter Will Douglas Heaven | MIT Technology Review "Self-driving car startup Wayve can now interrogate...

Newly Discovered Spirals of Brain Activity May Help Explain Cognition

Recently I perched on the edge of a cliff at Ausable Chasm, staring at the whitewater over 100 feet below. Water rushed through sandstone...

Electric Vehicle Battery Recycling Gains Momentum With a Big New Closed-Loop System

Shifting to battery-powered vehicles is an essential step in tackling climate change, but it's also creating worryingly large amounts of e-waste and demand for...

Signs of Life? Why This Alien World’s Atmosphere Is Exciting Astronomers

Are we alone? This question is nearly as old as humanity itself. Today, the question in astronomy focuses on finding life beyond our planet....

The Most Advanced Embryo Models Yet Mimic the First Two Weeks of Human Development

Forget sperm meets egg. Using human stem cells, scientists have created human embryo-like structures inside petri dishes. These lab-grown blobs develop multiple structures that mimic...

OpenAI’s GPT-4 Scores in the Top 1% of Creative Thinking

Of all the forms of human intellect that one might expect artificial intelligence to emulate, few people would likely place creativity at the top...

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