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This Drug Combo Extends Lifespan and Healthspan in Mice by Killing ‘Zombie’ Cells
Aging may seem like the most natural—and inevitable—thing in life. Yet according to a new study in Nature Medicine, rejuvenating an aging body may...
Is the Rise of AI on Wall Street for Better or Worse?
May 6, 2010, is a date that should live in infamy. On that day, the US stock market suffered a trillion-dollar collapse. Do you...
Why Most of Us Fail to Grasp Coming Exponential Gains in AI
By now, most of us are familiar with Moore’s Law, the famous maxim that the development of computing power follows an exponential curve, doubling...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through July 14)
COMPUTING
The US May Have Just Pulled Even With China in the Race to Build Supercomputing's Next Big Thing
Martin Giles | MIT Technology Review
"While there’s...
The Earth’s Carrying Capacity for Human Life Is Not Fixed
In a recent Nature Sustainability paper, a team of scientists concluded that the Earth can sustain, at most, only 7 billion people at subsistence...
Traditional Advertising Is Soon to Be History. Here’s What Will Replace It
This year (2018), the global advertising industry is projected to surpass $550 billion. Advertising revenues have driven Google’s valuation to >$700 billion, and Facebook...
Flexible ‘Dragon’ Drone Autonomously Shapeshifts to Fly Through Tight Spaces
A group of roboticists at the University of Tokyo have created a flexible, flying "drone-robot" that could see a multitude of uses.
The Dual-rotor embedded...
New DNA Synthesis Method Could Soon Build a Genome in a Day
Synthetic biologists are the computer programmers of biology. Their code? DNA.
The whole enterprise sounds fantastical: you insert new snippets of DNA code—in the form...
Big Tech Should Take the Lead on Climate Change—Here’s Why
At Collision, which calls itself “North America’s fastest-growing tech conference,” former United Nations climate chief Christiana Figueres threw down a challenge to tech titans:...
Inside a $1 Billion Real Estate Company Operating Entirely in VR
Born during the aftermath of the financial meltdown a decade ago, a publicly-traded real estate brokerage called eXp Realty is establishing itself as one...
Bot vs. Bot: Will the Internet Soon Be a Place Without Humans?
The internet, as it stands, is a global system of interconnected computer networks that allows humans to interact with each other, do business, gain...
Three Huge Ways Tech Is Overhauling Healthcare
We are on the brink of a revolution in healthcare. AI is making the drug discovery process >100X faster and cheaper, and 90 percent...
How Do You Win An Argument? IBM’s New AI Has a Formula
Anyone who’s spent even a little time on the internet lately may feel like there’s a little too much “debate”—much of which descends into...
Laws of Flight: As Drones Take Off, Regulation Lags
In 2014, a drone got tangled in the power lines outside a South Carolina prison carrying a small payload of marijuana and a cellphone....
Have We Reached the Limit of Human Longevity? New Study Says No
In 1997, when Jeannne Loise Calment died at the age of 122, she was the longest-living human on record.
But she won’t always be.
According to...
The New Energy Storage Tech Gates, Bezos, Ma, and Branson Are Investing In
A group of billionaires including Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Jack Ma, and Richard Branson have invested in Form Energy. The company, out of MIT,...
New Evidence That the World Really Is Getting Better
If you allow your perception of humanity to be shaped by the news, it is easy to lose sight of the narrative of human...
Plasma, the Mysterious (And Powerful) Fourth Phase of Matter
When I was in elementary school, my teacher told me that matter exists in three possible states: solid, liquid, and gas. She neglected to...
VR Fireside Chat: Inside a Virtual World Full of Surprises
Two weeks ago, I gave my first virtual reality presentation—a virtual fireside chat with my friend Philip Rosedale, the CEO of High Fidelity and...
Are Electric Planes the Future of Aviation?
Last week saw a rather unusual flight plan. Norway’s Transport Minister and the CEO of its major airport operator, Avinor, flew a quick lap...
The Smart Road Tech That’s Making Driving Faster, Safer, And Just Better
From autonomous cars to flying taxis to electric-powered aircraft, technological innovations in transportation vehicles seem to be moving faster than Elon Musk’s express loop...
Transdifferentiation Can Create An Endless Supply of Brain Cells—And Fast
Cellular reprogramming is like the fairytale of spinning straw into gold: you take an abundant, mundane cell type, dose it with a cocktail of...
What if Autonomous Vehicles Actually Make Us More Dependent on Cars?
Cities across Europe are taking steps to become increasingly car-free. London Mayor Sadiq Khan is aiming for 80 percent of all trips to be...
Neurons Made From Blood Cells—A New Tool for Understanding Brain Diseases
Our team at Stanford University has just figured out the recipe for converting blood cells from adults directly into nerve cells, or neurons.
You may...
What Makes People Distrust Science? Surprisingly, Not Politics
Today, there is a crisis of trust in science. Many people—including politicians and, yes, even presidents—publicly express doubts about the validity of scientific findings....
