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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

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

Jason Dorrier - August 8, 2022

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

Edd Gent - August 22, 2022

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

Paul S. Rosenbloom - July 28, 2022

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

Jason Dorrier - June 6, 2021

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

In Its Greatest Biology Feat Yet, AI Unlocks the Complex Proteins Guarding Our DNA

Shelly Fan - June 14, 2022

First Controlled Human Trial Shows Cutting Calories Improves Health, Longevity

Shelly Fan - February 22, 2022

Scientists Used CRISPR to Trace Every Human Gene to Its Function

Shelly Fan - June 20, 2022

Three Kids Are Thriving After Kidney Transplants With No Immunosuppressants

Shelly Fan - June 27, 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

MIT Researchers Create Artificial Synapses 10,000x Faster Than Biological Ones

Edd Gent - August 1, 2022

Moore’s Law: Scientists Just Made a Graphene Transistor Gate the Width of an Atom

Jason Dorrier - March 13, 2022

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

Aaron Frank - February 13, 2022

Space

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

Chris Impey - September 22, 2022

Astronomers now routinely discover planets orbiting stars outside of the solar system— they’re called exoplanets. But in summer 2022, teams working on NASA’s Transiting...

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

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

August 25, 2022

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

Chris Kirkland - August 25, 2022

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

Jovana Radulovic - March 18, 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

10 Tech Trends That Made the World Better in 2016

Peter H. Diamandis, MD - January 5, 2017

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

10 Tech Trends That Made the World Better in 2016

Peter H. Diamandis, MD - January 5, 2017

Six Technologies That Hit Their Tipping Points in 2015

Vivek Wadhwa - December 28, 2015

New Record-Crushing Battery Lasts 1.2 Million Miles in Electric Cars

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - June 11, 2020

Electric Cars Are Estimated to Be Cheaper Than Regular Cars by 2022

Edd Gent - April 29, 2019

Future

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

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - September 23, 2022

Vertical farms are popping up everywhere from Pennsylvania to Dubai, most of them growing some sort of leafy green (and one growing mushroom fungus!)....