This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through May 8)
SPACE
Elon Musk Is Maybe, Actually, Strangely, Going To Do This Mars Thing
Marina Koren | The Atlantic
"Take this path all the way to Boca Chica,...
A Dutch City Is Using Electric Cars to Feed the Grid
Electric vehicles are only as green as the grid that powers them, but they can help boost the use of clean energy by storing...
AI Is Harder Than We Think: 4 Key Fallacies in AI Research
Artificial intelligence has been all over headlines for nearly a decade, as systems have made quick progress in long-standing AI challenges like image recognition,...
Massive Flare Seen Close to Our Solar System: What It Means for Chances of...
The sun isn’t the only star to produce stellar flares. On April 21, 2021, a team of astronomers published new research describing the brightest...
When Did We Become Fully Human? What Fossils and DNA Tell...
When did something like us first appear on the planet? It turns out there’s remarkably little agreement on this question. Fossils and DNA suggest...
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23andMe’s Huge Covid-19 Study Draws Links Between the Virus and Our Genetics
Last spring, in a race against Covid-19, 23andMe launched an ambitious study to answer a question on everyone’s minds: who’s likely to get sick,...
‘Infinitely Recyclable’ Plastic Could Help Solve Our Waste Crisis
The world is drowning in plastic, and part of the reason is that it's incredibly hard to recycle most of the waste we create....
One Incredible Ocean Crossing May Have Made Human Evolution Possible
Humans evolved in Africa, along with chimpanzees, gorillas, and monkeys. But primates themselves appear to have evolved elsewhere—likely in Asia—before colonizing Africa. At the...
Forget Your Five-Year Plan: What If We Visualized Humanity’s Future in...
“Where do you see yourself in five years?” It’s a classic job interview question, designed to probe your level of ambition and aspiration. And...
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through May 1)
ROBOTICS
The Robot Surgeon Will See You Now
Cade Metz | The New York Times
"Real scalpels, artificial intelligence—what could go wrong? ...The project is a...
This Powerful Tidal Turbine Will Power 2,000 Homes in the UK
Renewable energy is having its moment in the sun. And in the wind. And, lesser known but equally relevant, in the water.
Tidal turbines don’t...
Researchers Scoured Billions of Links and Found the Internet Is Both Expanding and Shrinking
The online world is continuously expanding—always aggregating more services, more users, and more activity. Last year, the number of websites registered on the “.com”...
What Would We Do If an Asteroid Hit Earth? NASA Is Simulating It This...
About a month ago, an asteroid that was estimated to be at least a quarter-mile wide zoomed past Earth at a speed of 77,000...
A New CRISPR Tool Flips Genes On and Off Like a Light Switch
CRISPR is revolutionary. It’s also a total brute.
The classic version of the gene editing wunderkind literally slices a gene to bits just to turn...
