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Artificial Intelligence

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OpenAI’s GPT-4 Scores in the Top 1% of Creative Thinking

Erik Guzik - September 10, 2023

Of all the forms of human intellect that one might expect artificial intelligence to emulate, few people would likely place creativity at the top...

Watch Generative AI Design a Customized Protein in Seconds

September 7, 2023

Why Meta Is Allowing Users to See the Inner Workings of Its AI Chatbot

September 6, 2023

How Will We Know If AI Is Conscious? Neuroscientists Now Have a Checklist

September 3, 2023

AI Is Turbo-Charging the Search for Electric Vehicle Battery Metals

August 30, 2023

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Grief Tech Uses AI to Give You (and Your Loved Ones) Digital Immortality

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - August 16, 2023

New Night Vision Tech Lets AI See in Pitch Darkness Like It’s Broad Daylight

Shelly Fan - August 14, 2023

An AI Learned to Play Atari 6,000 Times Faster by Reading the Instructions

Edd Gent - March 10, 2023

How Swarming Animals Can Help Humans and AI Make Better Decisions

Samuel Johnson - August 10, 2023

Biotechnology

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Transgenic Silkworms Spin Spider Silk 6x Tougher Than Kevlar

Shelly Fan - September 26, 2023

The other day I dove headfirst into a spiderweb while half-asleep inside my camper van. Screams aside, the logical part of me marveled at how...

You’ll Soon Be Able to Buy Genetically Engineered Glow-in-the-Dark Petunias

September 24, 2023

DeepMind AI Hunts Down the DNA Mutations Behind Genetic Disease

September 21, 2023

Party Drug MDMA Inches Closer to Breakthrough Approval for PTSD

September 19, 2023

The Most Advanced Embryo Models Yet Mimic the First Two Weeks of Human Development

September 12, 2023

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A Surprising New Protein Player Restores Memory in Old Mice

Shelly Fan - August 18, 2023

Watch Generative AI Design a Customized Protein in Seconds

Jason Dorrier - September 7, 2023

Electrogenetics Study Finds We Could One Day Control Our Genes With Wearables

Shelly Fan - August 4, 2023

Security Checks Reaching Towards Your Brain

Aaron Saenz - May 14, 2009

Computing

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New Codes Could Accelerate the Advent of Practical Quantum Computing

Edd Gent - August 27, 2023

One of the biggest stumbling blocks for quantum computers is their tendency to be error-prone and the massive computational overhead required to clean up...

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

August 25, 2023

The Digital Future May Rely on Optical Switches a Million Times Faster Than Today’s Transistors

July 24, 2023

Microsoft Wants to Build a Quantum Supercomputer Within a Decade

July 5, 2023

An IBM Quantum Computer Beat a Supercomputer in a Benchmark Test

June 20, 2023

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Quantum Chip Takes Microseconds to Do a Task a Supercomputer Would Spend 9,000 Years On

Shelly Fan - June 7, 2022

An IBM Quantum Computer Beat a Supercomputer in a Benchmark Test

Shelly Fan - June 20, 2023

Biocomputing With Mini-Brains as Processors Could Be More Powerful Than Silicon-Based AI

Shelly Fan - March 7, 2023

How to Embed Trust Into the Foundations of the Internet

Aaron Frank - September 19, 2021

Space

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Signs of Life? Why This Alien World’s Atmosphere Is Exciting Astronomers

Brad E. Tucker - September 13, 2023

Are we alone? This question is nearly as old as humanity itself. Today, the question in astronomy focuses on finding life beyond our planet....

Sahara Space Rock 4.5 Billion Years Old Upends Assumptions About the Early Solar System

September 1, 2023

NASA’s Psyche Mission to a Metal Asteroid May Unlock the Mysteries of Earth’s Core

August 28, 2023

Looking Back Toward Cosmic Dawn—Astronomers Confirm the Faintest Galaxy Ever Seen

August 13, 2023

NASA’s Building a Nuclear Rocket That Would Get Us to Mars in Just 6 Weeks

August 7, 2023

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AI Is Helping Astronomers Search for Intelligent Alien Life—and They’ve Found 8 Strange New Signals

Danny C. Price - February 3, 2023

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

Sveta McShane - December 2, 2014

Sahara Space Rock 4.5 Billion Years Old Upends Assumptions About the Early Solar System

Evgenii Krestianinov - September 1, 2023

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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Electric Vehicle Battery Recycling Gains Momentum With a Big New Closed-Loop System

Edd Gent - September 14, 2023

Shifting to battery-powered vehicles is an essential step in tackling climate change, but it's also creating worryingly large amounts of e-waste and demand for...

Amid Energy Price Spike, 86% of New Renewable Electricity Was Cheaper Than Fossil Fuels Last Year

September 8, 2023

This Hybrid Solar Truck Can Go Over 6,000 Miles a Year on Pure Sunshine

September 5, 2023

US Invests $1.2 Billion in Carbon Capture Plants to Suck Tons of CO2 From the Air

August 20, 2023

Physicists Achieve Net Energy Gain in a Fusion Reaction for the Second Time

August 11, 2023

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Amid Energy Price Spike, 86% of New Renewable Electricity Was Cheaper Than Fossil Fuels Last Year

Edd Gent - September 8, 2023

US Invests $1.2 Billion in Carbon Capture Plants to Suck Tons of CO2 From the Air

Edd Gent - August 20, 2023

This Hybrid Solar Truck Can Go Over 6,000 Miles a Year on Pure Sunshine

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - September 5, 2023

Magnetizable Concrete in Roads Could Charge Electric Cars While You Drive

Edd Gent - August 9, 2021

Future

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You’ll Soon Be Able to Buy Genetically Engineered Glow-in-the-Dark Petunias

Edd Gent - September 24, 2023

Biotechnology is often advertised as the solution to world hunger or a way to cure disease. But new glow-in-the-dark house plants suggest it can...

The Limits of Our Personal Experience and the Value of Statistics

September 22, 2023

US Invests $1.2 Billion in Carbon Capture Plants to Suck Tons of CO2 From the Air

August 20, 2023

Grief Tech Uses AI to Give You (and Your Loved Ones) Digital Immortality

August 16, 2023

This Sweaty Robot Can Teach Us How to Survive Extreme Heat

July 26, 2023

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Democracy Is Ailing. Here’s How We Can Start Reviving It

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - May 17, 2022

Bitcoin’s Blowing Up, and That’s Good News for Human Rights. Here’s Why

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - February 10, 2021

Grief Tech Uses AI to Give You (and Your Loved Ones) Digital Immortality

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - August 16, 2023

Airships Are No Longer a Relic of the Past; You Could Ride in One by 2023

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - August 4, 2020

Tech

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Transgenic Silkworms Spin Spider Silk 6x Tougher Than Kevlar

Shelly Fan - September 26, 2023

The other day I dove headfirst into a spiderweb while half-asleep inside my camper van. Screams aside, the logical part of me marveled at how...

You’ll Soon Be Able to Buy Genetically Engineered Glow-in-the-Dark Petunias

September 24, 2023

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through September 23)

September 23, 2023

The Limits of Our Personal Experience and the Value of Statistics

September 22, 2023

DeepMind AI Hunts Down the DNA Mutations Behind Genetic Disease

September 21, 2023

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This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through September 23)

Singularity Hub Staff - September 23, 2023

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through September 16)

Singularity Hub Staff - September 16, 2023

You’ll Soon Be Able to Buy Genetically Engineered Glow-in-the-Dark Petunias

Edd Gent - September 24, 2023

Flowering Plants Survived the Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid—and May Outlive Us

Jamie Thompson - September 17, 2023

Robotics

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Agility’s New Factory Can Crank Out 10,000 Humanoid Robots a Year

Jason Dorrier - September 20, 2023

Simple robots have long been a manufacturing staple, but more advanced robots—think Boston Dynamics' Atlas—have mostly been bespoke creations in the lab. That's begun...

DeepMind’s ChatGPT-Like Brain for Robots Lets Them Learn From the Internet

August 2, 2023

This Sweaty Robot Can Teach Us How to Survive Extreme Heat

July 26, 2023

Chipotle’s New Robot Can Prep 25 Pounds of Avocados in Half the Time It Takes a Human

July 16, 2023

This Transformer-Like Robot Can Drive, Fly, Walk, and More

June 29, 2023

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This Is What Happens When We Debate Ethics in Front of Superintelligent AI

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - March 19, 2017

How Robots Helped Create 100,000 Jobs at Amazon

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - February 10, 2017

How Technology Is Driving Us Toward Peak Globalization

Banning Garrett - October 22, 2017

When Intelligent Machines Cause Accidents, Who Is Legally Responsible?

Peter Rejcek - January 30, 2017

Science

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Party Drug MDMA Inches Closer to Breakthrough Approval for PTSD

Shelly Fan - September 19, 2023

MDMA doesn’t have the best reputation. Known as “ecstasy” or “molly,” the drug is synonymous with rave culture: all-night electronic beats and choreographed laser...

Flowering Plants Survived the Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid—and May Outlive Us

September 17, 2023

Newly Discovered Spirals of Brain Activity May Help Explain Cognition

September 15, 2023

The Most Advanced Embryo Models Yet Mimic the First Two Weeks of Human Development

September 12, 2023

Scientists Electrify Biology by Converting Current Into the Chemical Fuel of Cells

August 31, 2023

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The Secret to a Long, Healthy Life Is in the Genes of the Oldest Humans Alive

Shelly Fan - August 10, 2020

See a Billion-Year Dance of Earth’s Tectonic Plates in 40 Seconds

Jason Dorrier - February 14, 2021

Can Consciousness Be Explained by Quantum Physics? New Research

Cristiane de Morais Smith - July 25, 2021

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

Shelly Fan - July 6, 2021