Science of the Future
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Impossible Foods is on a mission: ‘Eradicate the meat and fish industries by 2035’
Patrick Brown is on a mission: to eradicate the meat and fish industries by 2035. The CEO of Impossible Foods, a ...
Where does my body begin and machine end? How AI is keeping my pancreas, and me, alive
I have Type 1 diabetes, so my pancreas does not produce the life-essential insulin that a normal pancreas secretes. Instead, ...
Humanoid robots should nicely fit in with the rest of us, study suggests
Previous surveys have been able to shed light on people's perceptions of social robots and their characteristics, but the very ...
We’ll all be vegans by 2050? How GM microbes and alternative proteins are changing our diets
The plant-based meat market is predicted to grow from $3.6 billion in 2020 to $4.2 billion by 2021. And by 2040, 60 ...
Virtual reality sex might soon be a reality. What can we expect?
VR sex simulation is not the same as porn. The term “VR porn” is therefore somewhat misleading. When viewing photos ...
We might be able to send GMOs to other planets. But is it a good idea?
First: Could we populate another planet with genetically modified organisms? Second: Should we? … Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Professor of Planetary Habitability and Astrobiology ...
Machine learning helps battle life-threatening diseases. Could it end world hunger, too?
When was the last time you read an online magazine or newspaper, only to find yourself bombarded with shopping ads ...
Video: Instead of paying with a credit card, what if you could simply touch a scanner with your finger?
Instead of inserting a card or scanning a smartphone to make a payment, what if you could simply touch the ...
Plants poised to become a critical source to make vaccines for dengue and other diseases
Dengue is a pathogenic mosquito-borne virus belonging to the Flaviviridae family that causes 390 million infections per year. A safe, ...
Replicants: How humans and AI – artificial intelligence – could merge
Researchers are starting to build hybrid collaborative systems that combine the best of an AI model’s superpowers with human intuition. In this, humans ...
Plant-based meat: Wholesome food, science experiment—or both?
Makers of plant-based meat deal with a constant balancing act between promoting their products as simple, wholesome food and also ...
Infographic: How AI facial-recognition research can be misused to target minorities
[A] study, published in 2018, had trained algorithms to distinguish faces of Uyghur people, a predominantly Muslim minority ethnic group ...
Viewpoint: Genetics and AI have launched an agricultural revolution. But ‘blind techno-optimism’ could have harmful consequences
Depending on who you listen to, artificial intelligence may either free us from monotonous labour and unleash huge productivity gains, ...
Possibility of life on Venus fades after reanalysis of atmospheric data
In September, an international team of astronomers made headlines when it reported finding phosphine — a potential marker of life ...
Aging reversed using high-pressure hyperbaric oxygen chamber, Israeli researchers claim in peer reviewed study
Scientists in Israel showed they could turn back the clock in two key areas of the body believed to be ...
Natural Cycles wearable birth control monitor on track for FDA approval
The Natural Cycles app uses daily temperature measurements and period cycle tracking to predict the days someone is least likely ...
Precision medicines addressing unique diseases are poised to become more accessible
Today, companies are developing new models to lower the costs of manufacturing and bring [precision medicine] drugs to more patients ...
AI might be able to diagnose whether you have COVID-19 by just monitoring your cough
The difference between a healthy person’s cough and the cough of someone infected with [SARS-CoV-2] is so slight that it’s ...
Lab-grown meat requires fewer farm inputs than livestock, but more energy. Is it really better for the planet?
Cultured meat doesn't require grazing land or tons of feed. Instead it's grown in bioreactors like those already used to ...
Pressure builds to switch to ‘open science’ model, facilitating development of COVID vaccines and therapeutics
In October, the head of the [World Health Organization], Tedros Ghebreyesus Adhanom, alongside human rights chief Michelle Bachelet, and Audrey ...
Do AI robots have a ‘right to life’?
In the “Star Trek: The Next Generation” episode “The Measure of a Man,” Data, an android crew member of the Enterprise, is to ...
AI can reliably predict Alzheimer’s by analyzing how we use words
A team from IBM and Pfizer says it has trained AI models to spot early signs of [Alzheimer’s, a] notoriously stealthy ...
Can AI save us from COVID-19? ‘If the virus had hit 20 years ago, the world might have been doomed’
Millions of gigabytes of data — the equivalent of a modest library — are being generated by the pandemic each ...
McPlant: McDonalds poised to launch proprietary menu of plant-based meats in 2021
On [November 9], the fast-food giant [McDonald’s] announced it is developing a new line of menu items called the "McPlant." ...
Hardware modeled on the brain could revolutionize computing
A challenge for researchers developing applications of neuromorphic [or human brain-inspired] hardware is that a formal hierarchy such as Turing ...
There is water on the moon!
[New] research confirms long-standing theories about the existence of lunar water that could someday enable astronauts to live there for extended periods ...
Video: Elixir of life? If you want to live longer, consider injecting yourself with 3.5 million-year-old bacteria
People have been hunting down the legendary fountain of youth since antiquity. Does it exist? Could it ever, even theoretically, ...
