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The Tech World Is ‘Disrupting’ Book Publishing. But Do We Want Effortless Art?

Julian Novitz - December 17, 2024

Publishing is one of many fields poised for disruption by tech companies and artificial intelligence. New platforms and approaches, like a book imprint by...

Blurry, Morphing, and Surreal: A New AI Aesthetic Is Emerging in Film

December 10, 2024

Google DeepMind’s New AI Weatherman Tops World’s Most Reliable System

December 6, 2024

Most Supposedly ‘Open’ AI Systems Are Actually Closed—and That’s a Problem

November 30, 2024

OpenAI’s GPT-4o Makes AI Clones of Real People With Surprising Ease

November 29, 2024

OpenAI’s GPT-4o Makes AI Clones of Real People With Surprising Ease

Edd Gent - November 29, 2024

Take a Ride in a Fully Autonomous Tesla Today [Video]

Andrew J. O'Keefe II - November 6, 2016

This AI Learns Continuously From New Experiences—Without Forgetting Its Past

Shelly Fan - August 22, 2024

Niantic Is Training a Giant ‘Geospatial’ AI on Pokémon Go Data

Jason Dorrier - November 27, 2024

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AI That Can Design Life’s Machinery From Scratch Had a Big Year. Here’s What Happens Next.

Shelly Fan - December 23, 2024

Proteins are biology’s molecular machines. They’re our bodies’ construction workers—making muscle, bone, and brain; regulators—keeping systems in check; and local internet—responsible for the transmission...

Neuralink Rival’s Biohybrid Implant Connects to the Brain With Living Neurons

December 19, 2024

How to Be Healthy at 100: Centenarian Stem Cells Could Hold the Key

December 18, 2024

Study Suggests an mRNA Shot Could Reverse This Deadly Pregnancy Condition

December 16, 2024

Thousands of Undiscovered Genes May Be Hidden in DNA ‘Dark Matter’

December 9, 2024

Forget Needles. These Squid-Like Pills Will Spray Drugs Into the Gut Instead.

Shelly Fan - November 22, 2024

Scientists Just Discovered Over 70,000 Bizarre New Viruses With AI

Shelly Fan - October 23, 2024

Ray Kurzweil Predicts Three Technologies Will Define Our Future

Sveta McShane - April 19, 2016

Is Technology Unnatural—Or Is It ‘What Makes Us Human’?

Jason Dorrier - September 4, 2015

Computing

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Neuralink Rival’s Biohybrid Implant Connects to the Brain With Living Neurons

Edd Gent - December 19, 2024

Brain implants have improved dramatically in recent years, but they’re still invasive and unreliable. A new kind of brain-machine interface using living neurons to...

Google’s Latest Quantum Computing Breakthrough Shows Practical Machines Are Within Reach

December 12, 2024

‘Electric Plastic’ Could Merge Technology With the Body in Future Wearables and Implants

October 25, 2024

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

October 1, 2024

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

September 20, 2024

An IBM Quantum Computer Beat a Supercomputer in a Benchmark Test

Shelly Fan - June 20, 2023

Massive Disruption Is Coming With Quantum Computing

Peter H. Diamandis, MD - October 10, 2016

Scientists Merge Biology and Technology by 3D Printing Electronics Inside Living Worms

Edd Gent - April 14, 2023

Atom Computing Says Its New Quantum Computer Has Over 1,000 Qubits

Jason Dorrier - October 25, 2023

Space

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ET May Look Nothing Like Life on Earth. Scientists Want a Universal Theory of Life to Describe It.

Chris Impey - December 24, 2024

We have only one example of biology forming in the universe—life on Earth. But what if life can form in other ways? How do...

Astronomers Have Pinpointed the Origin of Mysterious Repeating Radio Bursts From Space

December 3, 2024

A 4.45-Billion-Year-Old Crystal From Mars Reveals the Planet Had Water From the Beginning

November 25, 2024

Europe Aims to Visit This Large Asteroid When It Brushes by Earth in 2029

November 5, 2024

Nuclear Rockets Could Take Us to Mars in Half the Time. NASA Plans to Fly One by 2027.

October 22, 2024

The Tools of Change Are Here: What Will You Do With Them?

Alison E. Berman - June 24, 2016

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

Sveta McShane - December 2, 2014

How to Build a Starship — and Why We Should Start Thinking About It Now

Ian Crawford - January 27, 2016

NASA Visualization Shows Supermassive Black Holes That Could Swallow Our Solar System Whole

Jason Dorrier - May 7, 2023

Energy

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This Tiny House Is Made From the Recycled Heart of a Wind Turbine

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - December 2, 2024

If you’ve tried to rent or buy a home in the last few years, you may have noticed there’s a severe housing shortage in...

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

September 27, 2024

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

Why the Price of New Solar Electricity Fell an Incredible 89% in the Last Decade

Jason Dorrier - December 13, 2020

Singularity University Comes Home: Global Summit Kicks off Today in San Francisco

Alison E. Berman - August 28, 2016

If Energy Becomes Free in the Future, How Will That Affect Our Lives?

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - March 11, 2018

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

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - July 14, 2022

Future

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Automated Cyborg Cockroach Factory Could Churn Out a Bug a Minute for Search and Rescue

Edd Gent - December 5, 2024

Envisioning armies of electronically controllable insects is probably nightmare fuel for most people. But scientists think they could help rescue workers scour challenging and...