These Tree-Planting Drones Are Firing Seed Missiles To Restore The World’s Forests
by Adele Peters: In Myanmar, a major project is under way: restore coastal mangrove forests—with a little air support… […]
What Would It Mean for AI to Become Conscious?
by Vanessa Bates Ramirez: As artificial intelligence systems take on more tasks and solve more problems… […]
Intel Is Building the World’s Most Powerful Supercomputer
by Edd Gent: A supercomputer capable of a quintillion operations a second will go online in 2021 after the US government handed Intel and supercomputer manufacturer Cray… […]
SETI Is Making A New ‘Mixtape For Aliens’, And You Can Contribute
by Vanessa Bates Ramirez: For centuries, people have looked up at the sky and wondered whether we’re alone in the universe… […]
New Bionic Arm Blurs Line Between Self And Machine For Wearers
by Shelly Fan: At 29 years old, Canadian firefighter Rob Anderson lost his left arm and left leg to a harrowing helicopter crash into the side of a mountain… […]
How One Small City Sowed The Seeds For Its Own Green New Deal
by Rachel Layne: Holyoke, Massachusetts, went from having the state’s last coal-fired power plant to its biggest solar farm.. […]
Let The Rich Try To Buy Back Their Youth
by Stephen L. Carter: All this expensive, intriguing and (so far) futile research into how to stop the aging process might someday pay off… […]
SpaceX Launches Capsule Bound For International Space Station
by James Doubek: SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule blasted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on schedule at 2:49 a.m. Saturday… […]
Large ‘Tesla ships’ All-Electric Container Barges Are Launching This Autumn
The Dutch company Port-Liner is building two giant all-electric barges dubbed the ‘Tesla ships‘… […]
Programming Self-Driving Cars Makes People Less Selfish
by Edd Gent: Self-driving cars are just around the corner, but working out the rules that should govern them is proving tricky… […]
AI Is Rapidly Augmenting Healthcare And Longevity
by Peter H. Diamandis, MD: When it comes to the future of healthcare, perhaps the only technology more powerful than CRISPR is artificial intelligence… […]
The World’s Fastest SuperComputer Breaks An AI Record
by Tom Simonite: ALONG AMERICA’S WEST coast, the world’s most valuable companies are racing to make artificial intelligence smarter… […]
The Home Of The Future Isn’t Smart—It’s ‘Living’ And Green
by Peter Rejcek: The varied universes of science fiction often offer inspiration for emerging technologies, or at least fitting leads for articles to describe them… […]
Batteries Replacing Gas In California, Coal In Colorado And Indiana
by Seth Mullendore: This is what the early stages of an energy transformation look like… […]
Twins In Space: The Impact Of Space Travel On Gene Expression
by Christine Bear: Researchers have had a rare opportunity to see how conditions on the International Space Station translated to changes in gene expression by comparing identical twin astronauts… […]
Using Molten Salt To Store Electricity Isn’t Just For Solar Thermal Plants
by Megan Geuss: Startup follows on a number of innovative ideas to make renewable energy more flexible… […]
Douglas Rushkoff’s TED Talk: How To Be “Team Human” In The Digital Future
by Socrates: Humans are no longer valued for our creativity, says media theorist Douglas Rushkoff — in a world dominated by digital technology, we’re now just valued for our data… […]
Researchers Discover A Way To Make 3D Printing 100 Times Faster Using Light
by Luke Dormehl: Are you old enough to remember the speed increase when you jumped from a dot matrix printer to a laser printer for the first time? […]
Bio-Printers Are Churning Out Living Fixes To Broken Spines
by Eric Niiler: FOR DOCTORS AND medical researchers repairing the human body, a 3D printer has become almost as valuable as an x-ray machine, microscope, or a sharp scalpel… […]
Neil deGrasse Tyson: Elon Musk Will “Transform Civilization As We Know It”
by Matt Pressman: Elon Musk remains a frequent target in the media. Clickbait journalists clack away at their keyboards and smear the Tesla and SpaceX CEO on a regular basis… […]
What Larry Ellison Brings To Tesla
by Matt Pressman: While Elon Musk might be larger than life in Silicon Valley, he’s not (ahem) universally loved there… […]
Scientists Engineer Shortcut For Photosynthetic Glitch, Boost Crop Growth By 40 percent
Plants convert sunlight into energy through photosynthesis; however, most crops on the planet are plagued by a photosynthetic glitch… […]
AI Will Create Millions More Jobs Than It Will Destroy. Here’s How
by Byron Reese: In the past few years, artificial intelligence has advanced so quickly that it now seems hardly a month goes by without a newsworthy AI breakthrough… […]
Denmark, UK, & Canada Lead In Using Technologies To Limit Climate Change
Denmark, the United Kingdom, and Canada lead the world when it comes to implementing measures to mitigate climate change, […]
Electric Cars May Already Be Making Gas Cars As Obsolete As ‘Flip Phones’, Experts Say
by Joe Romm: Buying a gas car today would leave you with a financial “albatross” that has little resale value, warns Wall Street Journal… […]
Tesla Model S Resale Values = Best In Class
by Charles Morris: It’s always fun to talk about Elon Musk’s tweets and tokes, but when it comes to predicting Tesla’s long-term financial prospects… […]
Patient Receives 3D-printed Rib Implant In breakthrough Procedure
by Luke Dormehl: 3D printing made some big advances in the medical domain last year, and it seems like that trend isn’t going to slow down any time soon… […]
Life-or-Death Algorithms: Avoiding The Black Box Of AI In Medicine
by Thomas Hornigold: When it comes to applications for machine learning, few can be more widely hyped than medicine… […]
Choosing Eco-Friendly Building Materials
by Murrye Bernard: In an effort to take advantage of the public’s enthusiasm for “green” building materials… […]
Saving the Seas: New Technologies to Protect the Ocean
by David Pring-Mill: The ocean covers more than 70 percent of our planet’s surface… […]
Virgin Galactic could reach space for the first time this week
by Charlotte Jee: Virgin Galactic is going to launch a test flight tomorrow which would be its first to reach space… […]
NASA’s InSight Mars Lander Will Gaze (And Drill) Into The Depths Of The Red Planet
by Devin Coldewey: NASA’s latest mission to Mars, InSight, is set to launch early Saturday morning in pursuit of a number of historic firsts in space travel and planetology… […]
NASA Turns To Private Companies For Future Moon Missions
by William Harwood: NASA has selected nine companies that will be allowed to compete for a share of up to $2.6 billion over the next 10 years to build and launch instruments… […]
Research In Zero Gravity: 6 Wild Projects On The International Space Station
by Peter Rejcek: It’s been 20 years since the first components of the International Space Station (ISS) were launched from Earth… […]
NASA’s InSight Mars Lander Will Gaze (And Drill) Into The Depths Of The Red Planet
by Devin Coldewey: NASA’s latest mission to Mars, InSight, is set to launch early Saturday morning in pursuit of a number of historic firsts in space travel and planetology… […]
The Spatial Web Will Map Our 3D World—And Change Everything In the Process
by Peter H. Diamandis, MD: The boundaries between digital and physical space are disappearing at a breakneck pace… […]
The Budding Movement For A Living Economy
by Ben Beachy: A movement is afoot in the shadow of the Trump administration… […]
Why Scientists Are Rushing To Catalog The World’s Poop
by Marc Prosser: If a group of scientists is successful, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault will be getting a cousin—one that may initially sound rather strange… […]
Sci-Fi Movies Are the Secret Weapon That Could Help Silicon Valley Grow Up
by Andrew Maynard: If there’s one line that stands the test of time in Steven Spielberg’s 1993 classic Jurassic Park… […]
Ears Grown From Apples? The Promise of Plants for Engineering Human Tissue
by Shelly Fan: Inspiration for game-changing science can seemingly come from anywhere… […]
IBM’s Watson Is Now Offering Career Coaching To Hourly Employees
by Simone Stolzoff: Hourly work rarely comes with benefits. But the baristas, waiters, and retail workers of the world might soon have access to a benefit formerly reserved for the C-suite… […]
Using Big Data To Give Patients Control Of Their Own Health
by Shelly Fan: Big data, personalized medicine, artificial intelligence. String these three buzzphrases together, and what do you have? […]
Humans Are About To Touch The Deepest Corners Of The Ocean For The First Time — An Endeavor As Dangerous As Landing On The Moon
by Hilary Brueck: Victor Vescovo, a Wall Street investor who’s traveled to the world’s seven highest peaks, is now aiming to dive to its lowest caverns, the trenches in the sea floor… […]
AI Won’t Replace Doctors, It Will Augment Them
by Shelly Fan: The future of medicine is a physician-patient-AI golden triangle, one in which machines augment clinical care and diagnostics—one with the patient at its heart… […]
Custom-Grown Bones, And Other Wild Advances In Regenerative Medicine
by Vanessa Bates Ramirez: The human body has always been an incredible machine, from the grand feats of strength and athleticism it can accomplish down to the fine details of each vein, nerve, and cell… […]