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How AI Can Tap into the Collective Mind to Transform Healthcare
In 2013, IBM sold the University of Texas’ MD Anderson Cancer Center on an audacious idea: that a single AI-powered platform, IBM Watson, could...
New Lifelike Biomaterial Self-Reproduces and Has a Metabolism
Life demands flux.
Every living organism is constantly changing: cells divide and die, proteins build and disintegrate, DNA breaks and heals. Life demands metabolism—the simultaneous...
Solving a Math Problem Just Brought Holograms Closer to Reality
Holograms are a staple in science fiction, but creating ones detailed enough to have serious applications in the real world has proved difficult. While...
China’s Electric Buses Save More Diesel Than All Electric Cars Combined
Tesla and other electric cars are great for the environment. However, they pale in comparison to electric buses. According to a report from Bloomberg...
As We Democratize Biology, We Must Avoid Biologizing Democracy
Technology is rapidly being demonetized and democratized, and that includes biotechnology. Almost anyone can now access and apply powerful biotech tools like genetic testing...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through April 20)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Open AI's Dota 2 AI Steamrolls World Champion e-Sports Team With Back-to-Back Victories
Nick Statt | The Verge
"... tells me there probably does not...
What Makes the Impossible Burger Look and Taste Like Real Beef?
People eat animals that eat plants. If we just eliminate that middle step and eat plants directly, we would diminish our carbon footprint, decrease...
A Lab-Grown Brain Twitched an Isolated Muscle. Here’s Why That’s Amazing
Floating inside a petri dish in a lab at Cambridge University, a single disjointed muscle twitched.
Normally that’s not news. But in this case, the...
Where Should We Draw the Line Between Rejecting and Embracing Black Box AI?
Deep learning is powering some amazing new capabilities, but we find it hard to scrutinize the workings of these algorithms. Lack of interpretability in...
The Electrifying Mission of the First Private Lunar Spacecraft
In September 2007, I was joined on stage by Larry Page, Buzz Aldrin, and the deputy administrator of NASA to announce a $30 million...
The Private Space Industry Is Breaking Out of Earth’s Orbit
Hopes for the first ever privately-funded moon landing were dashed last Thursday after the Israeli spacecraft Beresheet crashed on its final descent. But despite...
Senolytics Show Promise Against Alzheimer’s in Mice
For the past quarter century, scientists battled Alzheimer’s disease under a single guiding principle: that protein clumps—beta-amyloid—deposited outside sensitive brain cells gradually damage neuronal...
NASA Twins Study Provides New Insight Into How Space Travel Affects Human Health
Thanks to 18 years of humans continuously working on the International Space Station (ISS), we already have a basic idea of what happens to...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through April 13)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Two Rival AI Approaches Combine to Let Machines Learn Like a Child
Will Knight | MIT Technology Review
"...the hybrid system addresses key limitations of...
AI and Robotics Are Transforming Disaster Relief
During the past 50 years, the frequency of recorded natural disasters has surged nearly five-fold.
In this blog, I’ll be exploring how converging exponential technologies...
The Tangled Web of Turning Spider Silk Into a Super Material
Spider-Man is one of the most popular superheroes of all time. It’s a bit surprising given that one of the more common phobias is...
New CRISPR Method Can Edit Over 13,000 Spots in a Single Cell
Dr. George Church, the legendary godfather of synthetic biology, just made another push towards massively editing life’s base code.
Since the inception of gene editing,...
Watch These Robots Do Tasks You Thought Were Simple (But for Them Are Pretty...
Robots have been masters of manufacturing at speed and precision for decades, but give them a seemingly simple task like stacking shelves, and they...
5 Big Breakthroughs to Anticipate in 3D Printing
Convergence is accelerating disruption. Exponential technologies are colliding into each other, reinventing products, services, and industries.
Over the course of my next five blogs, I’m going...
The Three Frontrunners in the CRISPR Therapy Race
CRISPR is the ultimate child star in the biomedical universe.
Just six years old, the gene editing prodigy is now the subject of multiple clinical...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through April 6)
FUTURE OF FOOD
Behold the 'Beefless Impossible Whopper'
Nathaniel Popper | The New York Times
"Burger King is introducing a Whopper made with a vegetarian patty from...
In the Future, Everyone Might Use Quantum Computers
Computers were once considered high-end technology, only accessible to scientists and trained professionals. But there was a seismic shift in the history of computing...
China Is Taking the Worldwide Lead in Wind Power
Renewable energy demand and capacity are growing explosively. When looking at numbers for wind energy production, China stands above all other countries. Figures released...
Synthetic Cell Component Expands the Code of Life in Complex Cells
Two billion years ago, on a geochemically bubbly youth Earth, a simple bacteria engulfed its neighbor. Rather than dissolving into nutrients, against all odds...
A Birth Control Pill for Men Is One Step Closer
Women have long borne the brunt of contraception responsibilities, but this may be shifting in coming years. A new trial published in the Journal...
