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Designer Babies, and Their Babies: How AI and Genomics Will Impact Reproduction
As if stand-alone technologies weren’t advancing fast enough, we’re in age where we must study the intersection points of these technologies. How is what’s...
Ears Grown From Apples? The Promise of Plants for Engineering Human Tissue
Inspiration for game-changing science can seemingly come from anywhere. A moldy bacterial plate gave us the first antibiotic, penicillin. Zapping yeast with a platinum...
Breaking Out of the Corporate Bubble With Uncommon Partners
For big companies, success is a blessing and a curse. You don’t get big without doing something (or many things) very right. It might...
Hacking the Mind Just Got Easier With These New Tools
For eons, the only way to access the three-pound mushy bio-computer between our ears was to physically crack the skull, or insert a sharp...
5 Technologies Bringing Healthcare Systems into the Future
If you think you’ve got a bad case of the travel bug, get this: Dr. John Halamka travels 400,000 miles a year. That’s equivalent...
How Do We Teach Autonomous Cars To Drive Off the Beaten Path?
Autonomous vehicles can follow the general rules of American roads, recognizing traffic signals and lane markings, noticing crosswalks and other regular features of the...
Clocking the Drugs, Drugging the Clock: The Health Impact Of Circadian Medicine
When it comes to healthcare disruption, technology is often at the center: wearables that track our biological stats, scanners that monitor our internal processes,...
The Fascinating, Creepy New Research in Human Hibernation for Space Travel
No interstellar travel movie is complete without hibernators. From Prometheus to Passengers, we’ve watched protagonists awaken in hibernation pods, rebooting their fragile physiology from...
Using Big Data to Give Patients Control of Their Own Health
Big data, personalized medicine, artificial intelligence. String these three buzzphrases together, and what do you have?
A system that may revolutionize the future of healthcare,...
AI Won’t Replace Doctors, It Will Augment Them
The future of medicine is a physician-patient-AI golden triangle, one in which machines augment clinical care and diagnostics—one with the patient at its heart.
That...
Custom-Grown Bones, and Other Wild Advances in Regenerative Medicine
The human body has always been an incredible machine, from the grand feats of strength and athleticism it can accomplish down to the fine...
Could Blockchain Voting Fix Democracy? Today, It Gets a Test Run
There’s no shortage of debate about the role tech has played in politics. From misinformation being spread via WhatsApp in Brazil to Facebook becoming...
Y Combinator’s Search For a Climate Change Unicorn
Silicon Valley's premier tech incubator, Y Combinator, has decided to take on climate change. They've put out a call for proposals for technology that can suck...
Singularity University’s Exponential Medicine Kicks Off Today in San Diego
Technology is enabling us to explore groundbreaking new ideas in medicine, and as a result the medical field is advancing more rapidly than ever...
Our Voting System Is Hackable. Here’s How to Secure It
The November 6, 2018 midterm elections are being widely regarded as a referendum on President Trump, but they will also serve another, less obvious...
Why Our Current Energy Transition Is Both Unprecedented and Urgent
The combustion of oil, gas, and coal have made possible a much higher standard of living for humans through radical innovations in technology and...
How Virtual Reality Can Transform Who You Are
In virtual reality, as far as our brains are concerned, it’s quite possible to become an entirely different person.
At VR Days Europe, an annual...
Building a Moral Machine: Who Decides the Ethics of Self-Driving Cars?
You’re driving along the highway when, suddenly, a person darts out across the busy road. There’s speeding traffic all around you, and you have...
The Massive Project That’s Building a ‘Google Earth for Human Health’
In the medical study Hall of Fame, the Framingham Heart Study takes the throne.
An ongoing project that’s spanned three generations and almost 70 years,...
The How, Why, and Whether of Custom Digital Avatars That Live on After We...
A digital afterlife may soon be within reach, but it might not be for your benefit.
The reams of data we're creating could soon make...
5 Projects That Show How STEAM Can Shape the Future
We tend to compartmentalize our understanding of the world into “subjects.” From a very young age, we are misled to believe that science is...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through October 27)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
The AI Cold War That Could Doom Us All
Nicholas Thompson | Wired
"At the dawn of a new stage in the digital revolution, the...
NASA Wants to Send Humans to Venus. Here’s Why That’s a Brilliant Idea
Popular science fiction of the early 20th century depicted Venus as some kind of wonderland of pleasantly warm temperatures, forests, swamps and even dinosaurs....
The First Novel Written by AI Is Here—and It’s as Weird as You’d Expect...
Last year, a novelist went on a road trip across the USA. The trip was an attempt to emulate Jack Kerouac—to go out on...
Science vs. Superbugs: A New Wave of Solutions Is On the Way
Hollywood is chockablock with movies about zombie apocalypses caused by some uncontrollable infection, while alarming real-world headlines proclaim the next superbug is just around...
