Science of the Future
‘Three parent baby’ medical first: Male sperm and eggs from two women combined to create an embryo free from inherited mitochondrial disease
Mitochondrial disorders can cause serious health problems, including paralysis, heart failure, brain damage, strokes and blindness. ... The disorders are ...
Beyond herbicides: AI opens the door to sustainable weed control
Weeds remain one of the most persistent problems in agriculture. But the biggest issue facing modern farmers isn't getting rid ...
UK commits within 10 years to screening all newborn babies for genetic diseases
Every baby in England is to have a DNA screening to avoid fatal diseases and receive personalised healthcare as part of the ...
Is Elon Musk’s Grok-4 AI anti-semitic?
In a series of posts on X, the AI chatbot Grok apologized for what it admitted was "horrific behavior." The ...
From Lab to Forest: Biotech Trees for a Sustainable Future
Climate change is making forests more vulnerable to stress such as wildfires and pests, amid growing demand for their products ...
Tennessee becomes 16th state to require labelling of cell-based meat
Tennessee is laying the groundwork for how any "cell-cultured food product" can be sold in the state as lab-grown meat ...
AI is helping to develop gentically engineered food for long-term space missions. We may all benefit
Stored meats, tomatoes and even onions can't last a few weeks let alone a seven-to-10 month journey to Mars but ...
Opportunities, challenges and concerns as gene edited pigs may soon be on the regulatory platter in Europe
The US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) recent decision [approving gene edited pigs] has prompted [quesions about] what this technology ...
Younger Chinese farmers readily embracing AI and other smart technologies
From AI-powered data platforms to drones flying across the skies, Generation Z farmers in China are embracing a modern approach ...
AI agents are fast gaining autonomy. What could go right and wrong?
LLM agents don’t have much of a track record yet, but to hear CEOs tell it, they will transform the ...
Even though AI tools like ChatGPT are free to use, they come at a high environmental cost
"The difference between using Google as a search engine and ChatGPT is that ChatGPT uses ten times more energy," says ...
Will AI undermine or advance the fast-growing regenerative agriculture movement?
For many, the essence of regenerative agriculture lies in working with nature, not against it. This perspective often views high-tech ...
Viewpoint: Can gene editing address the looming food supply crisis?
As our civilization faces the conjunction of rising population and climate instability, the question of food security is rising back ...
‘AI deskilling’: What are the policy implications of a surge in the ‘knowledge economy’
The US, like other developed economies, is dominated by services...Many of these jobs, particularly the higher-skilled ones, are found in ...
Could soybeans replace toxic foams used to douse fires to cut down on spraying toxic chemicals?
Cross Plains began to look into creating a PFAS-free, soy-based firefighting foam after being approached by the United Soybean Board ...
Engineered yeast turns human urine in wastewater into dental and bone implants
A research team including a materials scientist at the University of California, Irvine has engineered a yeast platform that converts ...
‘Wildly distorting reality’: Some A.I. chatbots go down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorse ‘wild, mystical belief systems’
[Tech] journalists at The New York Times have received quite a few...messages, sent by people who claim to have unlocked ...
Viewpoint: How AGI (artificial general intelligence) threatens to undermine what it means to be human
Predictions about the impacts of artificial general intelligence (AGI) often focus on societal disruptions, such as job displacement or the ...
Viewpoint: The hubris of tech billionaires’ ‘ideology of technological salvation’
Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and others may have slightly different goals and ambitions in the near term, but ...
Who’s my daddy? Offspring of two male mice father a child
For the first time, mice born to two fathers have grown up and produced offspring, scientists in China have revealed ...
Profiles of the 10 top global cultured meat companies
An unsustainable demand for meat has led to companies looking for alternative solutions to conventional farming methods in order to ...
Viewpoint: ‘The Trump administration’s reckless assaults on U.S. science are endangering the nation’
The Trump administration’s reckless assaults on U.S. science are endangering the nation. If allowed to continue, they will lead to ...
From cells to sashimi: Lab-grown salmon and the future of sustainable seafood
The world has become increasingly more concerned about environmental sustainability, food security, and ethical sourcing, making lab-grown or cultivated meat ...
Feeding 10 billion in 2070: Deloitte’s vision for a food system transformation
By 2070, the global population is expected to reach nearly 10 billion, requiring a 40% increase in calorie production to ...
Rise of the robot farmer: How AI could reprogram global agriculture
Global agriculture is undergoing a technological renewal as the world continues to face problems, such as climate change, rising food ...
Viewpoint: From tools to systems, the future of farming requires an AGI-driven design
For a long time, agriculture was about scale. More acres. More calories. More inputs. That worked, until it didn’t. The ...
AI activists rethink their strategy, focusing on the future of work
[Recently] the AI Now Institute, a think tank that studies the social implications of artificial intelligence, published a sweeping report ...
