Science of the Future
Intergalactic travel: If we want to explore deep space, humans will have to ‘hibernate like bears’
Scientists said that human beings need to learn how to shut our bodies down like hibernating bears if we ever ...
Podcast: UK baby born from three ‘parents’ stirs hope and concerns
The pioneering IVF procedure known as mitochondrial donation therapy (MDT) could prevent children from being born with devastating mitochondrial diseases ...
Viewpoint: Nuclear codes — ‘The temptation to automate nuclear weapons with AI will be great. The danger is greater’
The world’s major military powers have begun a race to wire AI into warfare. For the moment, that mostly means ...
‘Enforcers and regulators must be vigilant’: Federal Trade Commission Chair outlines strong AI regulations
The full extent of generative A.I.’s potential is still up for debate, but there’s little doubt it will be highly ...
Podcast: Growing jetfuel? How genetically-engineered camelina is making sustainable biofuels a reality
The future lies in our farmlands — as the fossil fuels industry fades, crops like camelina, a flowering seed oil ...
Researchers expanded lifespan of yeast by 80% with a simple genetic tweak. Could this work in humans too?
Human lifespans have increased throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, but those increases are slowing down ...
Viewpoint: ‘This advance will increase productivity but also supercharge dislocation’ — How AI could destabilize democracy
The field of technology is convulsed by a debate about whether we have reached the Age of AGI...in which technology ...
This company adopted AI. Here’s what happened to its human workers
Companies like OpenAI and Google have unveiled new Artificial Intelligence systems with incredible capabilities ...
AI medical assistants? ChatGPT answers patient questions with more empathy than human doctors
There has been widespread speculation about how advances in artificial intelligence (AI) assistants like ChatGPT could be used in medicine. ...
High-tech internet-connected precision agriculture provides myriad benefits to farmers and sustainability. How can it work better?
"Farming's come a long way, we're a little bit ahead of the straw hats and the overalls days now," [farmer ...
AI-trained computers can scan eye and facial movements to recognize subtle signs of stroke
Early research efforts point to a future in which facial scans, perhaps embedded in a smartphone camera or even a ...
‘This is simply mind-blowing’: Monkeys implanted with synthetic embryos made from stem cells
Embryos made from stem cells, rather than an egg and sperm, appear to generate a short-lived pregnancy-like response in monkeys ...
With increasing concerns about artificial intelligence accuracy, calls for regulating AI are escalating
As artificial intelligence becomes a more integral part of our lives, there are increasing concerns about its accuracy and fairness ...
Will AI robots ever be accorded legal rights?
[T]he robot invasion is already well under way, and the question of rights for these soon-to-be-ubiquitous artificial forms of intelligence ...
Pronatalism: An emerging new eugenics movement encourages intellectual elites to have more children
Linked to the subcultures of rationalism and ‘effective altruism’ (EA), and bolstered by declining birth rates, it has been gaining ...
Here’s how drones can optimize harvests and save on labor
Drones are being used for an ever widening range of agricultural applications enabled by new technology and diminishing regulatory constraints ...
Biopharming can help pioneer new treatments but cumbersome, outdated regulations block innovation
Obtaining medicines from plants is not new. Aspirin was first isolated from the bark of the willow tree in the ...
How a bad facial AI recognition match led to a false arrest
Randal Quran Reid was jailed after he was mistaken for a Louisiana suspect during a traffic stop near Atlanta ...
Vaccines for heart disease and cancer? Moderna says immunization against the world’s deadliest diseases could be here by 2030
Vaccines for the world’s most deadly diseases, like cancer and heart disease, will likely be ready by 2030 and could ...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to detect crop diseases are on the way
Swarms of locusts devastating crops in East Africa, corn rootworms wreaking havoc in the Midwestern US. Blights destroying rubber trees in Brazil and ravaging potatoes in South India ...
When did the Anthropocene — the age of humankind — begin?
The epoch that extends from the last ice age, 11,700 years ago, and until today is called the Holocene. But ...
Ovaries in a dish? Lab-grown eggs are on the horizon
George Church is known for pushing the boundaries of biology. Now one of his latest projects could have enormous implications ...
How will we know if artificial intelligence gains true sentience?
On the SGU this week we interviewed Blake Lemoine, the ex-Google employee who believes that Google’s LaMDA may be sentient, ...
Edible circuits: Food-fueled batteries could be safely used inside the body to power the future
Researchers have started crafting edible circuits and sensors that can be used in the body. But such devices need a ...
Video: How to walk inside your own dreams with ChatGPT
Project Electric Sheep: Stunning new ChatGPT-powered game brings your DREAMS to life and let's you live them out for real ...
Viewpoint: Existential ethics — Pondering the extinction of the global human population
Why would it be so bad if our species came to an end? It is a question that reveals our ...
In Darwinian twist, AI could go ‘Terminator’ and gain upper hand over humans. Here’s how.
Artificial intelligence could gain the upper hand over humanity and pose "catastrophic" risks under the Darwinian rules of evolution, a ...