more stories

Study Suggests an mRNA Shot Could Reverse This Deadly Pregnancy Condition

With a single shot, scientists protected pregnant mice from a deadly complication called pre-eclampsia. The shot, inspired by mRNA vaccines, contains mRNA instructions to...

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through December 14)

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Google’s New Project Astra Could Be Generative AI’s Killer App Will Douglas Heaven | MIT Technology Review "Last week I was taken through an unmarked...

The Secret to Predicting How Your Brain Will Age May Be in Your Blood

Brain aging occurs in distinctive phases. Its trajectory could be hidden in our blood—paving the way for early diagnosis and intervention. A new study published...

Google’s Latest Quantum Computing Breakthrough Shows Practical Machines Are Within Reach

One of the biggest barriers to large-scale quantum computing is the error-prone nature of the technology. This week, Google announced a major breakthrough in...

Blurry, Morphing, and Surreal: A New AI Aesthetic Is Emerging in Film

Type text into AI image and video generators, and you’ll often see outputs of unusual, sometimes creepy, pictures. In a way, this is a feature,...

Thousands of Undiscovered Genes May Be Hidden in DNA ‘Dark Matter’

Thousands of new genes are hidden inside the “dark matter” of our genome. Previously thought to be noise left over from evolution, a new study...

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through December 7)

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE The GPT Era Is Already Ending Matteo Wong | The Atlantic " has been unusually direct that the o1 series is the future: Chen, who...

Google DeepMind’s New AI Weatherman Tops World’s Most Reliable System

This was another year of rollercoaster weather. Heat domes broiled the US southwest. California experienced a “second summer” in October, with multiple cities breaking...
Don't miss a trend
Get Hub delivered to your inbox

featured

more stories

Automated Cyborg Cockroach Factory Could Churn Out a Bug a Minute for Search and Rescue

Envisioning armies of electronically controllable insects is probably nightmare fuel for most people. But scientists think they could help rescue workers scour challenging and...

Astronomers Have Pinpointed the Origin of Mysterious Repeating Radio Bursts From Space

Slowly repeating bursts of intense radio waves from space have puzzled astronomers since they were discovered in 2022. In new research, my colleagues and I...

This Tiny House Is Made From the Recycled Heart of a Wind Turbine

If you’ve tried to rent or buy a home in the last few years, you may have noticed there’s a severe housing shortage in...

Most Supposedly ‘Open’ AI Systems Are Actually Closed—and That’s a Problem

“Open” AI models have a lot to give. The practice of sharing source code with the public spurs innovation and democratizes AI as a...

OpenAI’s GPT-4o Makes AI Clones of Real People With Surprising Ease

AI has become uncannily good at aping human conversational capabilities. New research suggests its powers of mimicry go a lot further, making it possible...

Niantic Is Training a Giant ‘Geospatial’ AI on Pokémon Go Data

If you want to see what's next in AI, just follow the data. ChatGPT and DALL-E trained on troves of internet data. Generative AI...

Why Are Our Brains So Big? Because They Excel at Damage Control

Compared to other primates, our brains are exceptionally large. Why? A new study comparing neurons from different primates pinpointed several genetic changes unique to humans...

A 4.45-Billion-Year-Old Crystal From Mars Reveals the Planet Had Water From the Beginning

Water is ubiquitous on Earth—about 70 percent of Earth’s surface is covered by the stuff. Water is in the air, on the surface, and...

Featured

Don't miss a trend
Get Hub delivered to your inbox