Science of the Future
‘Impressive’ and ‘humbling’: Whale language skills equal and even surpass human speech capabilities in some ways
Two new studies have found eerily human-like sophistication in whale songs, challenging notions about our exceptionality and potentially shedding light ...
‘Digital-twin technology’ could revolutionize agriculture. Here’s what happened when it was adopted on one Texas farm
It sounds like the stuff of science fiction — but with enough data, new agricultural models really are able to predict the ...
Viewpoint: Facing a mega-threat from China, America’s approach to regulating AI is ‘mostly nonsense’
China’s tech industry recently gave the U.S. tech industry — and along with it, the stock market — a rude ...
Viewpoint: US biotechnology innovation efforts dim with biomanufacturing a key laggard
The United States has been the undisputed innovator and leader in biology and biotechnology. Molecular biology and genetic engineering were ...
What will humans be like generations from now in a world transformed by artificial intelligence (AI)
What will humans be like generations from now in a world transformed by artificial intelligence (AI)? Plenty of thinkers have ...
Gene edited crops inch closer to acceptance as outlined in the European Commission’s new blueprint for the future
New research and innovation partnerships, faster risk assessment and innovation-friendly regulations are all on the table as the European Commission ...
Viewpoint: Britain is increasingly concerned as Trump indiscriminately cuts science programs. Here’s why
Scientific research and innovation advance our economic, social and cultural wellbeing, provide health benefits and are key to a sustainable ...
Here’s how to transform regenerative agriculture from an ideology into data and outcome-based agriculture that delivers on its promise
The recent publication of the SAI Platform’s global framework document for defining and measuring the outcomes of regenerative agriculture provides ...
Is intelligent life a ‘once in a universe’ likelihood? Recalibrating the possibility of extraterrestrial life
A popular model of evolution concludes that it was incredibly unlikely for humanity to evolve on Earth, and that extraterrestrial ...
What does it mean to say an animal has consciousness? What about AI?
Consciousness is a private affair. There is no way of directly knowing what it is like to be another. We ...
Meet Darryl: What would 24 hours with a health-integrated personal AI assistant look like?
Darryl, my Personal Assistant 2.0 bot, woke me up at the end of a light sleep cycle with some gentle ...
Why the 3-D revolution has stalled
The so-called “disruptive” technology that is 3D printing, now in its thirties, [seems] to be coming back into fashion. Yet, ...
Towards a bio-based economy: Turning agricultural biowaste into safer agro-chemicals and additives
Central Macedonia, a region on the northern mainland of Greece, is an important producer of food. It generates a quarter ...
What does Deepak Chopra believe about the dangers and benefits of AI
Deepak Chopra isn't turning his nose up at artificial intelligence ... rather, he's encouraging others to embrace the technology as the ...
Can trees help solve AI’s massive power needs?
Power producer Drax is scouting locations in the American pine belt to build electricity generators fueled by burning wood chips ...
Will vertical farming ever become sustainable and scalable?
Vertical farming has come under fire in the past, with opponents blasting its high energy usage and cost. So, will ...
The US fertility rate continues to fall sharply. Once celebrated, this trend could portend economic disaster. Here’s why
Humanity has entered a new era of rapid population decline. Globally, the total fertility rate is likely already below replacement—that ...
Africa looks to 7% annual growth to unlock benefits of a bioeconomy
Regions, such as Africa, which have significantly lower carbon emissions compared to the rest of the world, could have a ...
Scientists and ethicists raise eugenic concerns about embryonic gene editing even when it could block diseases
To date, no attempts have been made to predict the consequences of altering specific variants associated with polygenic diseases. In ...
Viewpoint: ‘Broligarchs’ and the emerging age of tech authoritarianism
There’s a dominant narrative in the media about why tech billionaires are sucking up to Donald Trump: Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos, all ...
Edging toward Agriculture 3.0: Genetics, irrigation and fertilization are improving—Is that enough for the leap forward necessary to feed the world?
Sometime in the 1980s, an unprecedented change in the human condition occurred. For the first time in known history, the ...
‘Digital twins’: 3-D digital organs are poised to revolutionize medical treatments
“Digital twins” are the same size and shape as the real thing. They work in the same way. But they ...
Breakthrough technologies: Global poll highlights embrace of AI in health care, gene editing and cell based meat, although optimism of U.S. respondents lags
Scientific advances will only succeed if people are willing to embrace them. Leaps by Bayer (the company’s impact investment arm) ...
Meat processors are making the move from simple automation systems to smart robots and AI. Here’s why
Facilities in several market segments of the meat processing industry have already embraced robot automation and AI technology. For other ...
Readers beware: AI vaccums up information from the internet and spews it out
If you have used Google lately and been lucky – or unlucky – enough to encounter an answer to your ...
User beware: China’s DeepSeek AI chatbot is a hotbed of Chinese, Russian and Iranian disinformation
Chinese company DeepSeek’s new AI chatbot advanced the positions of the Beijing government 60 percent of the time in response to prompts ...
Deploying AI to super charge CRISPR applications in medicine and agriculture
The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in the biotech industry seems boundless. Its combination with CRISPR could be the one area where ...
