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Here’s why you might eat greenhouse gases in the future.
A new paradigm for machine vision has just been demonstrated.
Going back to the moon will give us fresh insights about the creation of our solar system.
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If AIs can generate photos of people who don’t exist, what else can they imagine?
Soon we’ll be able to blink and instantly go online via computer chips attached to our eyes.
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The more Greenland melts, the more Greenland melts. Here’s why.
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Why Django Reinhardt might just be the greatest musical innovator you’ve never heard of.
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Some of the world’s most prestigious universities aren’t in America.
The ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are remnants of the ice age. They’re also the wild cards of climate science.
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There are clues to the future and past trapped in Greenland’s ice.
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How do you know you are real? A classic paper by philosopher Nick Bostrom argues you are likely a simulation.
Technology may soon grant us immortality, in a sense. Here’s how.
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The pizza giant Domino’s partners with a Silicon Valley startup to start delivering pizza by robots.
Here’s why generalists triumph over specialists in the new era of innovation.
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Almost all experts agree that coding will become nearly as ubiquitous as literacy in the future. But the nature of coding in the future may be very different.
The Tesla Motors CEO has plans for a James Bond-like car that drives on and under water.
Experts say two emerging meat alternatives will challenge the conventional meat industry.
When it comes to climate change, today’s airplane pollution is a real problem.
The world’s always been changing, but it feels like it’s never changed so quickly as it does now. What life skills will that render obsolete?
Nontraditional education options are on the rise.
IT has been one of the fastest growing and most lucrative industries for a long time. But is that going to be true in the future?
Our clever human hands may soon be outdone.
The Hermeus Corporation recently received seed funding to begin building a hypersonic jet that would travel twice the speed of the now-retired Concorde.
Some experts may worry that AI will depersonalize health care, but others see its potential to deepen relationships.
Elon Musk took issue with recent ideas for space exploration from Jeff Bezos.
Researchers advance machine learning to create videos of people from single stills and paintings.
Neuroscience is working to conquer some of the human body’s cruelest conditions: Paralysis, brain disease, and schizophrenia.
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Mega-rich entrepreneurs are taking us where no human being has gone before.
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Cook’s commencement speech at Tulane University urges students to take action.