I’m not actually predicting that until 2029 that we will match human intelligence, but computers will nonetheless do things that humans can’t do.
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A team of researchers is working on 3D-printing different organ cells, connecting them with a tiny circulatory system, and putting the whole thing on a two-inch chip, creating a “test subject” that’s steps up from animals or single-organ cell groups.
“I do not know whether I shall return from my long weekend trip alive,” the mathematical psychologist Anatol Rapoport once wrote. “But I do know that the number of traffic […]
University of California-Irvine scientists combined a protein found in a chameleon-like squid with graphene to create a material that could be used to hide people and objects in infrared light.
While Francis points the finger at leaders who have been “obsessed” with divisive social issues, some find his silence on these issues to be problematic.
How is it that certain clothes give us more confidence, so much confidence, in fact, that we find ourselves performing better when wearing them?
Rampant corruption causes headaches for China’s new leadership “They are notorious for deceiving wherever they can. […] Their frauds are most astutely and craftily performed, so that Europeans have to […]
One of the first words nixed by postgraduate education is “truth.” Amidst all the deconstructing and linguistic acrobatics, “truth” is just too troublesome and old fashioned. So, imagine my surprise […]
If you think that trawling the internet for cartography is a harmless endeavour, you are sorely mistaken. Think again. If you still can, that is. The relentless perusal of maps […]
I learned about last week’s fire in Seaside Park through a conspiracy theory. It read simply: ‘And I’m sure this was an accident.’ Given Jersey’s long history of questionable accidents—just […]
Why does the original pronunciation (OP) of Shakespeare’s words matter? For one thing, two-thirds of Shakespeare’s sonnets have rhymes that don’t work in modern English.
They may look like ordinary male insects, but they contain genes that kill some or all of their offspring. One test involving GM mosquitoes showed an 80-96 percent decrease in the mosquito population within six months.
Maybe digital technology is a neutral medium, conveying all our thoughts and feelings equally well. Or maybe, as tech hype tells us, our apps and gadgets skew positive, liberating us […]
Never mind Comet ISON: If all goes well, in January the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe will “wake up” in preparation for a rendezvous with Comet 67-P, currently hanging out in the vicinity of Jupiter.
Why is that when we are in love we are nonetheless in mourning?
The Harvest Moon is the full moon that occurs closest to fall’s equinox. This full moon will peak tomorrow morning at 7:13am EDT.
Nitrous oxide makes up 38 percent of agriculture-based greenhouse gas emissions. Several new studies recommend wider development and production of a tropical “super grass” that binds nitrogen more effectively than other variations.
Now that the craft is officially in interstellar space, it should continue to send data back to Earth for another 12 years or so, barring any unforeseen complications. Understandably, scientists are excited.
Later this year, a project will arrive at the International Space Station containing all the materials needed to grow a special breed of lettuce for eventual on-board consumption.
A 1,476-foot tower approved to be built in Seoul, South Korea is being promoted as the world’s first “invisible tower.”
By working together, economists, ecologists, local residents and others can help begin to set the values for the pieces that make up an ecosystem.
If you launch with today’s technology by the time you come to market you’re going to be out of business.
I think the difficult ending might be more realistic, but that doesn’t mean we can’t hope as well.
Early versions of Defense Distributed’s Liberator will be on display during the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Design Festival as proof of the institution’s “responding quickly to world events when they touch our areas of expertise.”
According to the UN’s report, “Bashar al-Assad was likely responsible.”
The British physicist Steven Hawking is living proof that someone can overcome enormous obstacles and still flourish as a human being.
Yuval Levin, in his neglected classic Imagining the Future, claims that there are two characteristic ways of viewing our technological and biotechnological future. One is in terms of innovations, the […]
Scientists at a number of different research installations are using sound to help them learn more about the world’s oceans. They’re also sharing what they find via live online streams.
People were talking about a third world war, which thank God didn’t happen.
No hurricanes. No cyclones. No tropical storms in the Atlantic, Pacific, or Indian Ocean. That was September 8, 2013.