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Artificial Intelligence

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Meta Built an AI That Can Guess the Words You’re Hearing by Decoding Your Brainwaves

Edd Gent - September 13, 2022

Being able to decode brainwaves could help patients who have lost the ability to speak to communicate again, and could ultimately provide novel ways...

This Mighty Brain Chip Is So Efficient It Could Bring Advanced AI to Your Phone

August 30, 2022

Meta Is Building an AI to Fact-Check Wikipedia—All 6.5 Million Articles

August 26, 2022

Google Gave Its Helper Robots AI Language Skills to Better Work With Humans

August 22, 2022

This Robot Dog Has an AI Brain and Taught Itself to Walk in Just an Hour

August 8, 2022

Meta Is Building an AI to Fact-Check Wikipedia—All 6.5 Million Articles

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - August 26, 2022

Combining Neuroscience, Psychology, and AI Yields a Foundational Model of Human Thought

Paul S. Rosenbloom - July 28, 2022

Google Gave Its Helper Robots AI Language Skills to Better Work With Humans

Edd Gent - August 22, 2022

Ray Kurzweil Predicts Three Technologies Will Define Our Future

Sveta McShane - April 19, 2016

Biotechnology

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Scientists Use CRISPR to Condense a Million Years of Evolution Into Mere Months

Shelly Fan - September 11, 2022

With its inquisitive eyes, furry snout, and lush pelt, the mouse—nicknamed Xiao Zhu, or Little Bamboo—nimbly perched on a bamboo stalk, striking a pretty...

These Bioengineered Corneas Gave 14 Blind People Their Sight Back

August 15, 2022

How Scientists Revived Organs in Pigs an Hour After They Died

August 9, 2022

New DNA ‘Camcorders’ Can Record ‘Movies’ of a Cell’s Development Through Time

August 2, 2022

No Pigs Were Harmed for These Pork Sausages, But They’re Real (Cultured) Meat

July 29, 2022

Ray Kurzweil Predicts Three Technologies Will Define Our Future

Sveta McShane - April 19, 2016

Scientists Used CRISPR to Trace Every Human Gene to Its Function

Shelly Fan - June 20, 2022

Google and Harvard Unveil the Largest High-Resolution Map of the Brain Yet

Jason Dorrier - June 6, 2021

Ultima Genomics Claims the $100 Genome and Raises $600M to Go Even Lower

Jason Dorrier - June 5, 2022

Computing

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The Tech That Will Push VR to the Limits of the Human Eye

Edd Gent - September 25, 2022

Big tech is eager to get us excited about the coming of the metaverse, but today's virtual reality hardware is a long way from...

Meta Built an AI That Can Guess the Words You’re Hearing by Decoding Your Brainwaves

September 13, 2022

This Mighty Brain Chip Is So Efficient It Could Bring Advanced AI to Your Phone

August 30, 2022

This Artificial Neuron Uses Dopamine to Communicate With Brain Cells

August 16, 2022

Scientists Dethrone Google’s Quantum Advantage Claim With a Conventional Computer

August 12, 2022

Scientists Dethrone Google’s Quantum Advantage Claim With a Conventional Computer

Edd Gent - August 12, 2022

The Metaverse Will Need 1,000x More Computing Power, Says Intel

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - December 17, 2021

How Virtual Reality Unveiled a Unique Brain Wave That Could Boost Learning

Shelly Fan - July 6, 2021

What Is the Metaverse? A Beginner’s Guide to Tech’s Latest Obsession

Aaron Frank - February 13, 2022

Space

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NASA’s DART Spacecraft Will Smack an Asteroid at 14,000 MPH Today—and You Can Watch

Jason Dorrier - September 26, 2022

Today, September 26, a spacecraft moving eight times faster than a speeding bullet will impact an asteroid almost 7 million miles (11 million kilometers)...

Super-Earths Are Bigger and More Habitable Than Earth, and Astronomers Are Discovering More of the Billions They Think Are Out There

September 22, 2022

Frank Drake Has Passed Away, but His Equation for Alien Intelligence Is More Important Than Ever

September 9, 2022

NASA Can Now Reliably Produce a Tree’s Worth of Oxygen on Mars

September 4, 2022

This Newly Discovered Super-Earth May Be an Ocean Planet Shrouded in the Deepest of Seas

August 28, 2022

The Most Powerful Space Telescope Ever Built Will Look Back in Time to the Dark Ages of the Universe

Chris Impey - October 24, 2021

A New Era in the Search for Extraterrestrial Life: We Can Finally Analyze Exoplanet Atmospheres

Chris Impey - July 15, 2022

The UK May Build a £16 Billion Solar Power Station in Space. Here’s How It Would Work

Jovana Radulovic - March 18, 2022

Scientists Have Traced Earth’s Path Through the Galaxy via Tiny Crystals Found in the Crust

Chris Kirkland - August 25, 2022

Energy

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A Massive Carbon Capture Plant in Wyoming Will Pull 5 Million Tons of CO2 From the Air Each Year

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - September 21, 2022

Though it’s still a controversial technology, direct air capture—also called carbon capture—is gaining traction. In the last few years, carbon capture plants have sprung...

Decarbonizing the Energy Sector by 2050 Could Save the World $12 Trillion

September 19, 2022

This Sleek Solar Car Goes 600 Miles on a Charge and Is Gearing Up for Production

September 16, 2022

A Swedish Company Wants to Transform Offshore Wind With Vertical-Axis Turbines

September 14, 2022

The World’s First Hydrogen Trains Started Passenger Service in Germany

September 12, 2022

The First Small Modular Nuclear Reactor Was Just Approved by US Regulators

Edd Gent - August 5, 2022

Scientists Just Made Hydrogen Fuel With Nothing But Air and Solar Power

Edd Gent - September 9, 2022

This Solar Car Will Soon Hit Production—and It Costs Less Than $26K

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - July 14, 2022

This Mini Wind Turbine Can Power Your Home in a Gentle Breeze

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - July 9, 2017

Future

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NASA’s DART Spacecraft Will Smack an Asteroid at 14,000 MPH Today—and You Can Watch

Jason Dorrier - September 26, 2022

Today, September 26, a spacecraft moving eight times faster than a speeding bullet will impact an asteroid almost 7 million miles (11 million kilometers)...

This Vertical Farm Grows Carbon-Neutral Algae Next to a Geothermal Power Plant

September 23, 2022

Humans Destroyed Forests for Thousands of Years. We Can Become the First Generation to Expand Them

September 15, 2022

Building Future Cities Out of Timber Could Save 100 Billion Tons of CO2 Emissions

September 5, 2022

NASA Can Now Reliably Produce a Tree’s Worth of Oxygen on Mars

September 4, 2022

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

Alison E. Berman - March 22, 2016

NASA Can Now Reliably Produce a Tree’s Worth of Oxygen on Mars

Jason Dorrier - September 4, 2022

Building Future Cities Out of Timber Could Save 100 Billion Tons of CO2 Emissions

Edd Gent - September 5, 2022

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

Peter H. Diamandis, MD - May 11, 2015

Tech

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There Are Cheaper, More Sustainable Ways Than Desalination to Meet Our Water Needs

Gregory Pierce - September 30, 2022

Coastal urban centers around the world are urgently looking for new, sustainable water sources as their local supplies become less reliable. In the US,...