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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

The lithium-ion alternatives could help create a safer, greener future.

Can AI-powered “answer engines” replace the 10 blue links model?

If you guessed “staying up all night to play video games,” you’d be right.

The bots started as windpipe cells, yet they helped nerve cells repair and grow.

To know how to protect its astronauts, NASA needs to first understand the threat.

Comparing Elon Musk’s Mars rocket to NASA’s new ride.

It has already been trialed in people and could give us a better way to analyze and stimulate the brain.

The initial study lays the groundwork for another larger, longer phase 2 trial.

And, more importantly, what’s being done to get them online?

Both nations made missteps, but China still has a chance to make up lost ground.

The US needs 28 million EV chargers by 2030. Here’s how it can get there.

When AI eats its own product, it gets sick.

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.

Astranis is on a mission to help everyone in the world get online.

And can we run the grid of the future without AI?

These startups, space agencies, and aerospace giants are building humanity’s next off-world homes.

The problem with today’s AI isn’t it thinking for itself; it’s the tech telling humans whatever we want to hear.

Finally, an AI that can drive a digital car as a goat.

Former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman just invested $100 million into the company.

Most patients with cancer die from metastasis. Stopping it would be a major advance in cancer therapy.

The synthetic cartilage was made from cellulose fibers — the stuff found in wood — mixed with a goo called polyvinyl alcohol.

What you can learn about media by parodying it from the print era into the digital age.

The DARPA-funded memory prosthesis helps the brain retain new information.

Perrikaryal uses an EEG to translate her brain activity into beating bosses in “Elden Ring” and beyond.

Ocean fertilization is extremely controversial, but if done correctly, it just might work.

Why the road to self-driving vehicles is paved with smarter “dumb” cars.

The futurist behind Minority Report explains 3 steps for predicting what comes next.

Futurist Ari Wallach asks, “how do we want to be remembered?”