Science of the Future
CRISPR pork: U.S. approves first gene-edited pigs for consumption
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved new genetically modified (GM) pigs for human consumption. Researchers engineered the ...
Raspberries are one of the quickest fruits to spoil. That may soon change
One of our most popular summer soft fruits could last longer in the fridge thanks to pioneering new research conducted ...
$250 billion—that’s how much money AI is predicted to save farmers and producers, but the agricultural revolution it’s igniting won’t stop there
[The] food-manufacturing industry has a new AI tool for boosting productivity on farms and in factories: advanced large language models. With this type ...
‘It’s like a throbbing pain that becomes quite unbearable’: What happens in the brain when a limb is amputated
Like many people who've had an amputation, [Emily] Wheldon often feels pain in her phantom arm and hand. "It's like ...
How self fertilizing gene-edited wheat could be a boon for developing world farmers
Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have developed wheat plants that stimulate the production of their own fertilizer, opening ...
Mining nuclear waste may power the future of nuclear power
Today’s nuclear power plants generate energy through a process called nuclear fission. ... This fission chain reaction provides a steady ...
When AI goes HAL 9000: How the coming age of agentic AI could unleash catastrophic cyberattacks
With all the hype about the transformative power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to revolutionize and accelerate innovation, there are some ...
Speed breeding: AI pollinating CRISPR gene-edited flowers are in development
For millennia, developing resilient crops relied on pollination by nature or humans—making the process long and often costly. Now, scientists ...
GLP podcast: Making babies in the lab? The messy ethics of embryo selection
If you could select the traits your children would have before they were born, would you do it? Once a ...
Some judges are adapting AI for use in court cases though hallucination problems have not been solved
The propensity for AI systems to make mistakes and for humans to miss those mistakes has been on full display ...
Can AI speed up the grindingly slow process of drug development?
Sooner or later, in some form, AI tools will be standard in drug discovery, suspects Derek Lowe, the medicinal chemist and ...
GLP podcast: ‘Hyperreality.’ How the digital world severs our connection to truth
Endless social media feeds, 24-hour news cycles, and AI-driven search engines have empowered us to curate the content we consume ...
Creating easy pollinating flowers: How AI and gene editing work round-the-clock to speed up crop breeding
For millennia, developing resilient crops relied on pollination by nature or humans—making the process long and often costly. Now, scientists ...
Nuclear reactor on the moon? NASA’S race to transform space travel
NASA is fast-tracking a plan to build a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030 under a new directive from the agency’s interim ...
Vindication for He Jiankui? Seven years after the Chinese scientist’s pioneering work landed him in jail, scientists and ethicists are exploring the inevitably of gene edited babies
A Chinese scientist horrified the world in 2018 when he revealed he had secretly engineered the birth of the world's ...
Next-generation sweeteners: Balancing function and flavor while navigating regulatory hurdles
With an increase in consumers looking for products with lower sugar contents and a need to be transparent with ingredients, ...
What is ‘Green AI’?
Degradation of the natural environment, resource depletion, and climate crisis are intricate phenomena requiring innovative and advanced solutions. This is ...
Humanoid surrogate robots spark debate as China pushes reproductive frontier
A Chinese tech firm is racing to deliver what could be the world’s first “gestation robot”. The idea from Kaiwa ...
Plants digest diesel and polyester, break down pesticides and fabric dyes, and store heavy metals in their bodies. Exploiting nature’s powers to clean up the environment
With the products of our technology now woven into remote ecosystems and our own flesh, there’s no escape from ourselves ...
From non-browning apples to robot harvesters, Okanagan has a radical plan to reshape the apple orchard
Before Neal Carter invented the world’s first commercially produced bioengineered apple, he helped mechanize lentils in the Middle East, diversify ...
GLP spaces on X: ‘Designer baby’ revolution is coming. Are we ready?
The day is rapidly approaching when many people will reproduce in the lab instead of the bedroom. Rather than pairing ...
Why AI and nuclear energy are inextricably linked
The explosive growth of the artificial intelligence industry, a boom that is still only in its infancy, is already triggering surging electricity ...
Gene editing breakthrough: Chile becomes first country in the Americas to approve high fiber wheat
The Chilean startup Neocrop Technologies, in collaboration with the national seed company Campex Baer and Argentina’s Buck Semillas, has developed ...
Viewpoint: The Catholic Church’s new guidelines on AI fail to account for the overlap of evolution and technology
While the Vatican acknowledges stages of technological development, it lacks a model of integrating science and religion that can adequately ...
Implantable brain technology: ALS patient is first to control iPad by thought
A patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has become the first person in the world to control an iPad entirely ...
How AI bots are redefining agriculture
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) in agriculture is transforming the way farming operations are conducted, marking a significant leap towards more ...
Podcast: The race to build a viable brain-computer implant and why they are revolutionary
Brain-computer interfaces might have inspired works of science fiction, but the technology behind them is real and quickly developing. Companies ...
