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Freethink's weekly countdown of the biggest space news, featuring a stranded space factory, Jeff Bezos' new moon lander, and more.
Susannah Fox, former chief technology officer for the HHS, explains how technology has empowered us to help fill in the cracks of the healthcare system.
Author of the Canceling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff explains the current state of free speech in the United States.
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We may be on the brink of finally seeing human-level intelligence in an AI — thanks to robots.
The brain-computer interface will be tested in a six-year trial in patients with quadriplegia.
His grandfather, a member of Oppenheimer’s atomic bomb team, foresaw the potential of nuclear energy to power cities — not destroy them.
HaptX gloves provide high-fidelity touch feedback of virtual spaces (and they look cool, too).
The initial study lays the groundwork for another larger, longer phase 2 trial.
The bots started as windpipe cells, yet they helped nerve cells repair and grow.
If you guessed “staying up all night to play video games,” you’d be right.
It has already been trialed in people and could give us a better way to analyze and stimulate the brain.
The synthetic cartilage was made from cellulose fibers — the stuff found in wood — mixed with a goo called polyvinyl alcohol.
Most patients with cancer die from metastasis. Stopping it would be a major advance in cancer therapy.
The DARPA-funded memory prosthesis helps the brain retain new information.
Making up false information is one of the biggest problems with AI, but there are no silver-bullet solutions.
These scrolls are the only remaining intact library of ancient Rome — and they will crumble at a touch.
The futurist behind Minority Report explains 3 steps for predicting what comes next.
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Futurist Ari Wallach asks, "how do we want to be remembered?"
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WIRED founder Kevin Kelly explains why progress often looks like dystopia to the untrained eye.
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Here's what it means for the field.
Astranis is on a mission to help everyone in the world get online.
The problem with today’s AI isn’t it thinking for itself; it’s the tech telling humans whatever we want to hear.
An interview with economist Tyler Cowen on why American progress has seemed to stall and how we can get it back on track.
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Ocean fertilization is extremely controversial, but if done correctly, it just might work.
The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora is one of the reasons why Bryan Walsh sees supervolcanoes as the” single, biggest threat to the human race.”
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New research shows psychedelics activate receptors inside brain cells that other compounds, like serotonin, cannot.
Former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman just invested $100 million into the company.
It will be able to produce 22 million pounds of cultivated meat annually.
Poachers drove the Northern White Rhino to extinction. One scientist and her “frozen zoo” are on a mission to bring them back.
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