Science of the Future
Here are the most important Artificial Intelligence innovations to track in 2024
AI’s problems will shape the agenda for researchers, regulators, and the public, not just in 2024 but for years to ...
Biodegradable plastic made of milk byproducts tackles plastic pollution and food waste all at once
As the issue of plastic pollution continues to escalate in the United States, a scientist from the Agricultural Research Service ...
Podcast: ‘Intelligence explosion’ — Deep space is too far away for humans to explore, but AI may offer a work-around by uploading our brains into the cloud
Futuristic objectives that are at the centre of the AI industry’s quest for superintelligence and hear about the Extropians, ...
Weight-loss drugs, malaria vaccines and more: CRISPR innovations headline the science breakthroughs of 2023
CRISPR is the year’s top breakthrough not only because of heroic work done in the past 12 months, but also ...
Galactic concerts: ‘What if traveling to space could yield incomparable beauty in the form of art and music?’
Within a decade, a trip off the planet could become as accessible as an airline ticket, and in 15-20 years, ...
Viewpoint: Tech Panic Cycle — AI could transform entertainment, education, health care, unless over wrought fears shut down innovation
Recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) have heightened imaginations about what the future holds ...
Organs on demand, AI innovation, CRISPR for cholesterol: Top 10 tech breakthroughs of 2023
MIT Technology Review has unveiled its list of the top 10 breakthrough technologies that made headlines in 2023. From cutting-edge ...
Highschoolers used AI to create non-consensual sexually explicit images. Here’s how US lawmakers are responding
Legislators are responding quickly after high school teens used AI to create nonconsensual sexually explicit images ...
Video: ‘New humans’ — Combination of artificial intelligence, bionics, CRISPR and cloning could create next generation of humanity, says Siddhartha Mukherjee
Technologies like CRISPR gene editing, synthetic biology, bionics integrated with AI, and cloning will create "new humans," says Dr. Siddhartha ...
Breathing on Mars: AI-powered ‘robot chemist’ could analyze materials on other planets and figure out how to create oxygen
A robot chemist powered by artificial intelligence could solve the puzzle of providing oxygen to humans on Mars ...
CRISPR co-creator Jennifer Doudna: ‘I think many of us will experience CRISPR in the agricultural world before we experience it clinically’
It’s been a monumental year for Crispr, the molecular tool scientists use to edit genetic material. ...
First on the list for de-extinction? The famed dodo
The dodo, a flightless bird once hunted to extinction, is to be re-introduced by genetically engineering fresh ones ...
Could another species of humans evolve? Yes, if we begin populating other planets
Along with Homo sapiens, at least eight other species of human have existed. Ultimately, just one species prevailed: Homo sapiens ...
Viewpoint: ‘Risking metastasizing and spreading malignant racist ideologies’ — Social scientists attack Gates-funded initiative to bring AI to the developing world
Announcement of the launch of a new $5 million project to launch new artificial intelligence in low- income and middle- ...
Radical advances in mind reading technology: How it’s possible to know what’s going on in someone else’s mind
How we think, feel and experience the world is a mystery, but technology may be starting to help us understand ...
How CRISPR trees could help us create optimized paper of the future
Wood consists of about 25 percent lignin, but the paper and fiber industries remove it because it lowers the quality ...
A green glowing monkey has been created in China. What were the scientists trying to learn?
Scientists in China have announced the birth of a primate like no other, with eyes that shined green and fingertips ...
Viewpoint: Trials and tribulations plague the Effective Altruism movement
The multibillion-dollar Effective Altruism movement makes rich people feel good about being rich — to hell with the bad publicity ...
Seeking an end to cosmic loneliness: Inside the quest to find out if humans are the only intelligent life in the universe
New tools, including machine learning and AI, could help scientists look past their preconceived notions of what constitutes life ...
‘Completely uncharted territory’: First whole eye transplant successful, but patient still blind
A surgical team at NYU Langone Health in New York had performed the world’s first successful whole-eye transplant in a ...
Robot bees: How can artificial pollination help vertical farming thrive?
Robotic pollinators resemble oversized bees equipped with wheels and an arm. This technological innovation is designed to address the pressing ...
Growing food on the moon: With an injection of bacteria, scientists turn inhospitable lunar soil into fertile home for crops
If humankind is ever to establish long-term bases on the moon, there will be a need for a regular source of ...
Viewpoint: ‘Blind faith that capitalism and technology will solve the world’s problems’ — Current Affairs attacks ‘techno-optimism’
Techno-optimism is a dangerous philosophy whose adherents that market capitalism and technology will solve the world’s problems ...
Corrupting the ‘spirit’ of sport? Posthuman enhanced bodies redefine notion of excellence
The history of humanity undermines the founding assumptions on which the fear of techno-scientific enhancement is based ...
Making eggs without ovaries: How skin-based egg cells could transform human reproduction
Matt Krisiloff, chief executive officer of Conception Biosciences, has dozens of scientists working at a lab in Berkeley, Calif., trying ...
It takes 25,000 pounds of food to feed 4 astronauts on a 3 year mission to Mars. Here’s how ‘space farming’ might help feed them.
Rajkumar Hassamani, of the Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology at the University of Agricultural Sciences in India, told Al Jazeera Net ...
3D-printed coral reefs? Can this new approach to reef decline revive coastal ecosystems?
Several acres of 3D-printed artificial reefs are currently being planted in coastal North Carolina to bolster the region's biodiversity and ...