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Artificial Intelligence

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

Shelly Fan - August 25, 2023

ChatGPT, DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, and other generative AIs have taken the world by storm. They create fabulous poetry and images. They’re seeping into every...

AI Can Now Design Proteins That Behave Like Biological ‘Transistors’

August 22, 2023

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

August 16, 2023

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

August 14, 2023

How Swarming Animals Can Help Humans and AI Make Better Decisions

August 10, 2023

China Wants to Be the World’s AI Superpower. Does It Have What It Takes?

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - January 17, 2021

Microsoft’s New Deepfake Detector Puts Reality to the Test

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - September 4, 2020

Facebook Wants to Make Smart Robots to Explore Every Nook and Cranny of Your Home

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - August 26, 2020

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

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - August 2, 2023

Biotechnology

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AI Can Now Design Proteins That Behave Like Biological ‘Transistors’

Shelly Fan - August 22, 2023

We often think of proteins as immutable 3D sculptures. That’s not quite right. Many proteins are transformers that twist and change their shapes depending on...

A ‘Memory Wipe’ for Stem Cells May Be the Key to Better Regenerative Therapies

August 21, 2023

A Surprising New Protein Player Restores Memory in Old Mice

August 18, 2023

Heart Organoids Tricked Out With Nanowires Restored Heart Function in Rats

August 8, 2023

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

August 4, 2023

Stem Cells Are Poised to Change Health and Medicine Forever

Peter H. Diamandis, MD - January 17, 2017

Security Checks Reaching Towards Your Brain

Aaron Saenz - May 14, 2009

Single-Shot Gene Therapy Aims to Cure Blood Disorders Like Sickle Cell

Shelly Fan - August 1, 2023

Thanks to DALL-E, the Race to Make Artificial Protein Drugs Is On

Shelly Fan - January 3, 2023

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

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

Mohammed Hassan - July 24, 2023

An IBM Quantum Computer Beat a Supercomputer in a Benchmark Test

Shelly Fan - June 20, 2023

AI-Powered Brain Implant Smashes Speed Record for Turning Thoughts Into Text

Shelly Fan - January 31, 2023

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

Jim Bell - August 28, 2023

French novelist Jules Verne delighted 19th-century readers with the tantalizing notion that a journey to the center of the Earth was actually plausible. Since then,...

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

Measuring Helium in Distant Galaxies May Give Physicists Insight Into Why the Universe Exists

July 27, 2023

A Mysterious Interstellar Radio Signal Has Been Blinking on and off Every 22 Minutes for Over 30 Years

July 20, 2023

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

Edd Gent - August 7, 2023

A Mysterious Interstellar Radio Signal Has Been Blinking on and off Every 22 Minutes for Over 30 Years

Natasha Hurley-Walker - July 20, 2023

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

Danny C. Price - February 3, 2023

Goodbye Mirrors: This Telescope Could Collect 100x More Light Than the James Webb

Daniel Apai - July 12, 2023

Energy

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

Edd Gent - August 20, 2023

Pulling large amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the atmosphere is likely to be a crucial part of efforts to tackle climate change....

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

August 11, 2023

Energy Vault’s First Grid-Scale Gravity Energy Storage System Is Near Complete

August 9, 2023

A New US Plant Will Use Captured CO2 to Make Millions of Gallons of Jet Fuel

July 31, 2023

The Dream of Harvesting Solar Power From Space Is Gaining Momentum

June 18, 2023

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

Edd Gent - August 11, 2023

These Mini Wind Generators With No Spinning Blades Can Power Homes and Buildings

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - October 19, 2022

Magnetizable Concrete in Roads Could Charge Electric Cars While You Drive

Edd Gent - August 9, 2021

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

Edd Gent - August 5, 2022

Future

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

Edd Gent - August 20, 2023

Pulling large amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the atmosphere is likely to be a crucial part of efforts to tackle climate change....

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

A Community of 3D-Printed Homes Is Being Built for Oregon Wildfire Survivors

July 19, 2023

Lab-Grown Chicken Is Now Legal for Sale in the US

June 23, 2023

Uber Wants to Go All-Electric by 2030. It Won’t Be Easy

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - September 10, 2020

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

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - February 10, 2021

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

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - May 17, 2022

Generative AI Could Add $4.4 Trillion a Year to the Global Economy, McKinsey Finds

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - June 22, 2023

Tech

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

Jim Bell - August 28, 2023

French novelist Jules Verne delighted 19th-century readers with the tantalizing notion that a journey to the center of the Earth was actually plausible. Since then,...