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Artificial Intelligence

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‘Droidspeak’: AI Agents Now Have Their Own Language Thanks to Microsoft

Edd Gent - November 21, 2024

Getting AIs to work together could be a powerful force multiplier for the technology. Now, Microsoft researchers have invented a new language to help...

Poetry by History’s Greatest Poets or AI? People Can’t Tell the Difference—and Even Prefer the Latter. What Gives?

November 19, 2024

A ChatGPT-Like AI Can Now Design Whole New Genomes From Scratch

November 18, 2024

MIT’s New Robot Dog Learned to Walk and Climb in a Simulation Whipped Up by Generative AI

November 15, 2024

Could We Ever Decipher an Alien Language? Uncovering How AI Communicates May Be Key

November 12, 2024

We’ll Soon Trust AI More Than Doctors to Diagnose Disease

Jason Dorrier - October 13, 2016

Self-Driving Car Sensors Just Got Smaller, Cheaper, and Better All at Once

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - October 16, 2016

Could We Ever Decipher an Alien Language? Uncovering How AI Communicates May Be Key

Olaf Lipinski - November 12, 2024

Take a Ride in a Fully Autonomous Tesla Today [Video]

Andrew J. O'Keefe II - November 6, 2016

Biotechnology

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Forget Needles. These Squid-Like Pills Will Spray Drugs Into the Gut Instead.

Shelly Fan - November 22, 2024

As a medical doctor, my mother isn’t afraid of needles. But when she recently began injecting insulin daily for her newly diagnosed diabetes, the...

A ChatGPT-Like AI Can Now Design Whole New Genomes From Scratch

November 18, 2024

Sweet CRISPR Tomatoes May Be Coming to a Supermarket Near You

November 14, 2024

This Ambitious Project Wants to Sequence the DNA of All Complex Life on Earth

November 11, 2024

Solar-Powered ‘Planimal’ Cells? Chloroplasts in Hamster Cells Make Food From Light

November 8, 2024

Writing the First Human Genome by 2026 Is Synthetic Biology’s Grand Challenge

Jason Dorrier - October 10, 2016

Biohacking Will Let You Connect Your Body to Anything You Want

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - September 1, 2016

Sweet CRISPR Tomatoes May Be Coming to a Supermarket Near You

Shelly Fan - November 14, 2024

Solar-Powered ‘Planimal’ Cells? Chloroplasts in Hamster Cells Make Food From Light

Edd Gent - November 8, 2024

Computing

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‘Electric Plastic’ Could Merge Technology With the Body in Future Wearables and Implants

Edd Gent - October 25, 2024

Finding ways to connect the human body to technology could have broad applications in health and entertainment. A new "electric plastic" could make self-powered...

Meta Has Launched the World’s ‘Most Advanced’ Glasses. Will They Replace Smartphones?

October 1, 2024

DNA Computing Evolves: New System Stores Data, Plays Chess, and Solves Sudoku Puzzles

September 20, 2024

Quantum Computers Will Kill Digital Security. These Algorithms Could Stop Them.

August 15, 2024

Bitcoin Miners Flush With Chips Are Pivoting to AI in Search of New Riches

August 6, 2024

What You Need to Know About the Future of Money

Jason Dorrier - June 16, 2016

Be on the Winning Side of Disruption: SU Global Summit San Francisco

Singularity University - July 13, 2016

Why We Need Government to Evolve as Fast as Technology

Nicholas Haan - December 3, 2015

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

Shelly Fan - April 15, 2024

Space

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A 4.45-Billion-Year-Old Crystal From Mars Reveals the Planet Had Water From the Beginning

Aaron J. Cavosie - November 25, 2024

Water is ubiquitous on Earth—about 70 percent of Earth’s surface is covered by the stuff. Water is in the air, on the surface, and...

Europe Aims to Visit This Large Asteroid When It Brushes by Earth in 2029

November 5, 2024

Nuclear Rockets Could Take Us to Mars in Half the Time. NASA Plans to Fly One by 2027.

October 22, 2024

Dusty Snow on Mars Could Harbor Life According to a New NASA Simulation

October 21, 2024

Cosmology Is at a Tipping Point—We May Be on the Verge of Discovering New Physics

September 24, 2024

‘Wait But Why’: Elon Musk’s Favorite Blog Makes Good Ideas Available to Everyone, With Cartoons

Aaron Frank - January 20, 2016

Be on the Winning Side of Disruption: SU Global Summit San Francisco

Singularity University - July 13, 2016

The Fascinating, Creepy New Research in Human Hibernation for Space Travel

Shelly Fan - November 8, 2018

Google Pledges $3 Million to Singularity University to Make Graduate Studies Program Free of Charge

Singularity Hub Staff - January 28, 2015

Energy

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Scientists Say Net Zero Aviation Is Possible by 2050—If We Act Now

Edd Gent - September 27, 2024

Aviation has proven to be one of the most stubbornly difficult industries to decarbonize. But a new roadmap outlined by University of Cambridge researchers...

There Are Now More Electric Vehicles Than Gas-Powered Cars in Norway

September 19, 2024

UK Gives Sneak Peek of a Novel Fusion Reactor Shaped Like a Cored Apple

September 12, 2024

Meta Looks to Next-Gen Geothermal to Fuel Ravenous Data Centers

September 9, 2024

The US Is Adding Grid-Scale Batteries at 10 Times the Pace of Natural Gas This Year

September 2, 2024

There Are Now More Electric Vehicles Than Gas-Powered Cars in Norway

Edd Gent - September 19, 2024

H2 Clipper Will Resurrect Hydrogen Airships to Haul Green Fuel Across the Planet

Edd Gent - January 3, 2022

A Plane Powered by Cooking Oil Just Flew Across the US

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - December 3, 2021

World’s Biggest Battery Will Provide 85 Megawatts to New England Grid

Edd Gent - August 23, 2024

Future

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Could We Ever Decipher an Alien Language? Uncovering How AI Communicates May Be Key

Olaf Lipinski - November 12, 2024

In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language consisting of palindromic phrases,...