The book “The Genesis Machine” outlines the promise and peril of synthetic biology, a powerful tool that will allow us to program life like a computer.
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Mindfulness, detachment, selecting off-time activities with care: Here are evidence-based strategies to achieve healthy work-life balance.
Organ transplantation is in dire need of biotechnological advances. 3D bioprinting and genetic modification of pigs provide a path forward.
Do they really need the human touch?
On Nov. 15, 2021, U.S. officials announced that they had detected a dangerous new debris field in orbit near Earth. Later in the day, it was confirmed that Russia had […]
Scientists watch as mice mouse around an onscreen maze.
Science and the humanities have been antagonistic for too long. Many of the big questions of our time require them to work closer than ever.
We give it the flight plan, and it takes care of the rest. It has to. Here’s why. No matter how advanced our technology becomes, there are certain limits that can […]
With launch, deployment, calibration, and science operations about to commence, here are 10 facts that are absolutely true.
Older people are in grave danger of being left behind.
The world is changing, and technology is driving that change. Today, that observation is about as compelling as the insight that water runs downhill. It’s just what technology (and water) […]
Researchers design microdevices that can gradually deliver medicine by latching on to intestines.
What if the barrier to a fulfilled life isn’t technology but culture?
The world isn’t ending! But we are likely at the beginning of a profound transformation.
The new tool may someday be used in work that needs a light touch.
Max Planck Institute scientists crash into a computing wall there seems to be no way around.
There’s a fortune to be made in data and silicon, and everyone is out for their share. Artificial intelligence is this century’s gold rush. Its promises scintillate in them there […]
A new MIT report proposes how humans should prepare for the age of automation and artificial intelligence.
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What if you are the only person in the world who can think?
About the project The goal of driving more progress across the world—scientifically, politically, economically, socially, etc—is one shared by many. And yet, debates about the best way to maximize progress […]
Ultraviolet LED lights could soon be used to help disinfect air and surfaces in buildings, planes, subways and other spaces.
Researchers are making progress in the effort to develop safe and practical supernumerary robotic limbs.
After decades of development, whether NASA’s Webb succeeds or fails all comes down to five critical milestones that are only days away.
Researchers make the case for “deep evidential regression.”
“It’s kind of like a Fitbit in your skull with tiny wires,” Musk said.
Sound waves behave quite differently on Mars than on Earth.
There is no going “back to normal.”
Scientists with the the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Legacy Imaging Surveys spent six years creating a detailed map of more than 1 billion galaxies.