Science of the Future
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The disabled, the elderly and the poor: Trump administration flirts with eugenics
Trump has deployed in his administration and in his relationships with billionaires a group of the old and new eugenicists ...
AI hallucinations: They’re getting worse
More than two years after the arrival of ChatGPT, tech companies, office workers and everyday consumers are using A.I. bots ...
Biology junkie? Here are some great summer reads
One of my favorite summer chores is finding a new book to take from the beach to the pool. ...
When European politicians and ‘experts’ debate the future of farming, they listen to everyone but farmers
Georges Clemenceau once said war was too important to be left to the generals. Today, in Brussels, agriculture is too ...
Electric respiration: Bacteria that ‘breathe’ electricity could revolutionize wastewater treatment and biomanufacturing
A team led by Rice University bioscientist Caroline Ajo-Franklin has discovered how certain bacteria breathe by generating electricity, using a natural ...
Risk averse, precautionary Europe is missing out on the technology revolution
The world’s technology revolution is leaving Europe behind. Europe lacks any homegrown alternatives to the likes of Google, Amazon or Meta. Apple’s market value is ...
‘Humanized mice’: Chimeras fuel quest to treat chronic diseases, cancer and even COVID-19
Some medical conditions can't be ethically investigated in humans, so researchers are finding interesting ways to grow people parts in ...
Gene editing embryos: Crypto billionaire Brian Armstrong funding ethically controversial project
Brian Armstrong, the billionaire CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, says he’s ready to fund a US startup focused on ...
