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For the first time, an off-the-shelf CAR T cell therapy has been used to treat potentially life-threatening autoimmune disorders in three people. With a...

Are We Reaching the Limit of Human Longevity? A New Study Says Yes

October 14, 2024

In a First, Woman’s Type 1 Diabetes Reversed by a Stem Cell Transplant

October 9, 2024

This Biohybrid Robot Is Made of Human Cells and Controlled by a Machine ‘Mind’

September 30, 2024

First Panda Stem Cells Made in the Lab Bring New Hope for These Beloved Bears

September 23, 2024

Elderly Monkeys Aged More Slowly When Given a Cheap Diabetes Drug Used by Millions

Shelly Fan - September 16, 2024

A New Gene Therapy Reprograms Cancer Cells to Fight Themselves

Shelly Fan - September 13, 2024

These Scientists Are Battling Dangerous Superbugs With a ChatGPT-Like AI

Shelly Fan - August 8, 2024

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

Shelly Fan - September 20, 2024

Computing

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

Martie-Louise Verreynne - October 1, 2024

Humans are increasingly engaging with wearable technology as it becomes more adaptable and interactive. One of the most intimate ways gaining acceptance is through...

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

This Enormous Computer Chip Beat the World’s Top Supercomputer at Molecular Modeling

July 9, 2024

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

Shelly Fan - December 14, 2023

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

Edd Gent - August 6, 2024

Why Most of Us Fail to Grasp Coming Exponential Gains in AI

Hod Lipson - July 15, 2018

NVIDIA Is Making a Digital Twin of Earth’s Climate. Here’s an Inside Look

Aaron Frank - October 4, 2022

Space

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

Andreea Font - September 24, 2024

For the past few years, a series of controversies have rocked the well-established field of cosmology. In a nutshell, the predictions of the standard...

Scientists Discover New Evidence Earth May Once Have Had a Ring Like Saturn

September 17, 2024

Life on Alien Planets Probably Wouldn’t Experience Day and Night—Here’s How That May Change Evolution

September 10, 2024

The SpaceX Polaris Dawn Mission Will Show Us How Spaceflight Transforms the Body

August 26, 2024

Black Hole Sun: Watch a Star Get Torn to Shreds by a Supermassive Black Hole

August 20, 2024

Can AI save us from AI?

Jason Dorrier - December 9, 2014

How Could the Big Bang Arise From Nothing?

Alastair Wilson - January 9, 2022

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

Andreea Font - September 24, 2024

What Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory of the Cosmos Reveals About the Origins of Time and Life

Thomas Hertog - May 12, 2023

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

The World’s Biggest Wind Turbine Is Being Built in China

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - August 25, 2021

Japan’s Kairyu Sea Turbine Will Harvest the Never-Ending Power of Deep Ocean Currents

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - June 22, 2022

Europe’s Biggest Vertical Farm Will Be Powered by Wind and Planted by Robots

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - December 11, 2020

Future

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You’ll Soon Be Able to Book a Room at the World’s First 3D-Printed Hotel

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - October 10, 2024

The first 3D-printed house in the US was unveiled just over six years ago. Since then, homes have been printed all over the country...

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

September 27, 2024

Robots Are Coming to the Kitchen—What That Could Mean for Society and Culture

September 3, 2024

AI Models Scaled Up 10,000x Are Possible by 2030, Report Says

August 29, 2024

This Is What Could Happen if AI Content Is Allowed to Take Over the Internet

July 25, 2024

This MIT Chatbot Simulates Your ‘Future Self.’ It’s Here to Help You Make Better Decisions.

Jason Dorrier - June 5, 2024

Short Space Film “Wanderers” Reminds Us We Are All Explorers

Sveta McShane - December 2, 2014

The World in 2025: 8 Predictions for the Next 10 Years

Peter H. Diamandis, MD - May 11, 2015

We Might Live in a Virtual Universe — But It Doesn’t Really Matter

Maxim Roubintchik - August 3, 2016

Tech

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This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through October 19)

Singularity Hub Staff - October 19, 2024

SPACE SpaceX Catches Returning Rocket in Mid-Air, Turning a Fanciful Idea Into Reality Stephen Clark | Ars Technica "This achievement is the first of its kind, and...