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Artificial Intelligence

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A New Photonic Computer Chip Uses Light to Slash AI Energy Costs

Shelly Fan - April 15, 2024

AI models are power hogs. As the algorithms grow and become more complex, they’re increasingly taxing current computer chips. Multiple companies have designed chips tailored...

This AI Can Design the Machinery of Life With Atomic Precision

March 8, 2024

A Google AI Watched 30,000 Hours of Video Games—Now It Makes Its Own

March 7, 2024

Amazon’s Billion-Dollar Investment Arm Targets Generative AI in Robotics

February 28, 2024

Like a Child, This Brain-Inspired AI Can Explain Its Reasoning

February 22, 2024

This Mind-Reading Cap Can Translate Thoughts to Text Thanks to AI

Jason Dorrier - December 12, 2023

A Google AI Watched 30,000 Hours of Video Games—Now It Makes Its Own

Jason Dorrier - March 7, 2024

Amazon’s Billion-Dollar Investment Arm Targets Generative AI in Robotics

Jason Dorrier - February 28, 2024

This AI Can Design the Machinery of Life With Atomic Precision

Shelly Fan - March 8, 2024

Biotechnology

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This AI Just Designed a More Precise CRISPR Gene Editor for Human Cells From Scratch

Shelly Fan - April 25, 2024

CRISPR has revolutionized science. AI is now taking the gene editor to the next level. Thanks to its ability to accurately edit the genome, CRISPR...

A Universal Vaccine Against Any Viral Variant? A New Study Suggests It’s Possible

April 22, 2024

Cell Therapies Now Beat Back Once Untreatable Blood Cancers. Scientists Are Making Them Even Deadlier.

April 19, 2024

This Company Is Growing Mini Livers Inside People to Fight Liver Disease

April 11, 2024

Environmental DNA Is Everywhere. Scientists Are Gathering It All.

April 2, 2024

A New Treatment Rejuvenates Aging Immune Systems in Elderly Mice

Shelly Fan - March 29, 2024

Security Checks Reaching Towards Your Brain

Aaron Saenz - May 14, 2009

This Mind-Reading Cap Can Translate Thoughts to Text Thanks to AI

Jason Dorrier - December 12, 2023

This AI Can Design the Machinery of Life With Atomic Precision

Shelly Fan - March 8, 2024

Computing

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How Quantum Computers Could Illuminate the Full Range of Human Genetic Diversity

Edd Gent - April 26, 2024

Genomics is revolutionizing medicine and science, but current approaches still struggle to capture the breadth of human genetic diversity. Pangenomes that incorporate many people’s...

A New Photonic Computer Chip Uses Light to Slash AI Energy Costs

April 15, 2024

Quantum Computers Take a Major Step With Error Correction Breakthrough

April 4, 2024

What Is a GPU? The Chips Powering the AI Boom, and Why They’re Worth Trillions

March 13, 2024

Mac at 40: Apple’s Love Affair With User Experience Sparked a Tech Revolution

January 19, 2024

A Ball of Brain Cells on a Chip Can Learn Simple Speech Recognition and Math

Shelly Fan - December 14, 2023

IBM’s Brain-Inspired Analog Chip Aims to Make AI More Sustainable

Shelly Fan - August 25, 2023

Atom Computing Says Its New Quantum Computer Has Over 1,000 Qubits

Jason Dorrier - October 25, 2023

Metasurfaces Open the Door to Telekinesis and Telepathy With Technology

Shelly Fan - June 28, 2022

Space

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The Crucial Building Blocks of Life on Earth Form More Easily in Outer Space

Christian Schroeder - April 23, 2024

The origin of life on Earth is still enigmatic, but we are slowly unraveling the steps involved and the necessary ingredients. Scientists believe life...

Exploding Stars Are Rare—but if One Was Close Enough, It Could Threaten Life on Earth

April 16, 2024

Elon Musk Doubles Down on Mars Dreams and Details What’s Next for SpaceX’s Starship

April 12, 2024

3 Body Problem: Is the Universe Really a ‘Dark Forest’ Full of Hostile Aliens in Hiding?

April 9, 2024

Now We Can See the Magnetic Maelstrom Around Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole

March 27, 2024

It Will Take Only a Single SpaceX Starship to Launch a Space Station

Edd Gent - February 9, 2024

Where Is Everyone? 4 Possible Explanations for the Fermi Paradox

Raya Bidshahri - September 2, 2019

Now We Can See the Magnetic Maelstrom Around Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole

Jason Dorrier - March 27, 2024

The Biggest Simulation of the Universe Yet Stretches Back to the Big Bang

Jason Dorrier - September 17, 2021

Energy

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These Plants Could Mine Valuable Metals From the Soil With Their Roots

Edd Gent - March 28, 2024

The renewable energy transition will require a huge amount of materials, and there are fears we may soon face shortages of some critical metals....

Even as the Fusion Era Comes Into View—We’re Still in the Steam Age

March 19, 2024

These Technologies Could Axe 85% of CO2 Emissions From Heavy Industry

February 2, 2024

EIA Says 40 Percent of US Electricity Is Now Emission-Free for the First Time

January 8, 2024

Scientists Fire Up the World’s Largest Fusion Reactor for the First Time

November 2, 2023

Magnetizable Concrete in Roads Could Charge Electric Cars While You Drive

Edd Gent - August 9, 2021

Why the Price of New Solar Electricity Fell an Incredible 89% in the Last Decade

Jason Dorrier - December 13, 2020

Ukraine Conflict Has the World on a Renewable Energy Run, IEA Report Says

Edd Gent - December 19, 2022

Even as the Fusion Era Comes Into View—We’re Still in the Steam Age

Andreas Helwig - March 19, 2024

Future

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Elon Musk Doubles Down on Mars Dreams and Details What’s Next for SpaceX’s Starship

Edd Gent - April 12, 2024

Elon Musk has long been open about his dreams of using SpaceX to spread humanity’s presence further into the solar system. And last weekend,...

Harvard’s New Programmable Liquid Shifts Its Properties on Demand

April 10, 2024

3 Body Problem: Is the Universe Really a ‘Dark Forest’ Full of Hostile Aliens in Hiding?

April 9, 2024

Scientists Say New Hybrid Beef Rice Could Cost Just a Dollar per Pound

February 15, 2024

How Much Life Has Ever Existed on Earth, and How Much Ever Will?

January 30, 2024

19th Century French Artists Predicted The World Of The Future In This Series Of Postcards

David J. Hill - October 15, 2012

Quantum Computers Could Crack Encryption Sooner Than Expected With New Algorithm

Edd Gent - October 2, 2023

Technology Feels Like It’s Accelerating — Because It Actually Is

Alison E. Berman - March 22, 2016

A New Lab-Grown Meat Factory in Spain Will Churn Out 1,000 Metric Tons of Beef Per Year

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - June 11, 2023

Tech

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How Quantum Computers Could Illuminate the Full Range of Human Genetic Diversity

Edd Gent - April 26, 2024

Genomics is revolutionizing medicine and science, but current approaches still struggle to capture the breadth of human genetic diversity. Pangenomes that incorporate many people’s...