Intergalactic travel: If we want to explore deep space, humans will have to ‘hibernate like bears’

Intergalactic travel: If we want to explore deep space, humans will have to ‘hibernate like bears’

Jerry Lawton | 
Scientists said that human beings need to learn how to shut our bodies down like hibernating bears if we ever ...
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Podcast: UK baby born from three ‘parents’ stirs hope and concerns

Darren Griffin, Madeleine Finlay | 
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’

Viewpoint: Nuclear codes — ‘The temptation to automate nuclear weapons with AI will be great. The danger is greater’

Ross Andersen | 
The world’s major military powers have begun a race to wire AI into warfare. For the moment, that mostly means ...
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‘Enforcers and regulators must be vigilant’: Federal Trade Commission Chair outlines strong AI regulations

Lina Khan | 
The full extent of generative A.I.’s potential is still up for debate, but there’s little doubt it will be highly ...
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Podcast: Growing jetfuel? How genetically-engineered camelina is making sustainable biofuels a reality

Mitch Ratcliffe, Oliver Peoples | 
The future lies in our farmlands — as the fossil fuels industry fades, crops like camelina, a flowering seed oil ...
Researchers expanded the lifespan of yeast by 80% with a simple genetic tweak. Could this work in humans too?

Researchers expanded lifespan of yeast by 80% with a simple genetic tweak. Could this work in humans too?

Mario Aguilera | 
Human lifespans have increased throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, but those increases are slowing down ...
Viewpoint: Destabilizing democracy: The use of artificial intelligence is accelerating, and not all of the consequences will be benign.

Viewpoint: ‘This advance will increase productivity but also supercharge dislocation’ — How AI could destabilize democracy

Danielle Allen | 
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 : Planet Money : NPR

This company adopted AI. Here’s what happened to its human workers

Greg Rosalsky | 
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

AI medical assistants? ChatGPT answers patient questions with more empathy than human doctors

Danielle Ellis | 
There has been widespread speculation about how advances in artificial intelligence (AI) assistants like ChatGPT could be used in medicine.  ...
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High-tech internet-connected precision agriculture provides myriad benefits to farmers and sustainability. How can it work better?

Stephen Fowler | 
"Farming's come a long way, we're a little bit ahead of the straw hats and the overalls days now," [farmer ...
AI is being used to train computers to scan scan eye and facial movements to recognize subtle strokes

AI-trained computers can scan eye and facial movements to recognize subtle signs of stroke

Eric Niiler | 
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 pregnant with synthetic embryos made from stem cells

‘This is simply mind-blowing’: Monkeys implanted with synthetic embryos made from stem cells

Jessica Hamzelou | 
Embryos made from stem cells, rather than an egg and sperm, appear to generate a short-lived pregnancy-like response in monkeys ...
With concerns about the accuracy of artificial intelligence increasing, calls for regulating AI are escalating

With increasing concerns about artificial intelligence accuracy, calls for regulating AI are escalating

Bart Ziegler | 
As artificial intelligence becomes a more integral part of our lives, there are increasing concerns about its accuracy and fairness ...
Will robots with AI ever be accorded legal rights?

Will AI robots ever be accorded legal rights?

Daniel Akst | 
[T]he robot invasion is already well under way, and the question of rights for these soon-to-be-ubiquitous artificial forms of intelligence ...
l Pronatalism: The emerging eugenics movement encouraging the intellectual elite to have more children

Pronatalism: An emerging new eugenics movement encourages intellectual elites to have more children

Io Dodds | 
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

Here’s how drones can optimize harvests and save on labor

Steve Savage | 
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

Biopharming can help pioneer new treatments but cumbersome, outdated regulations block innovation

Henry Miller, Kathleen Hefferon | 
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

How a bad facial AI recognition match led to a false arrest

Kashmir Hill, Ryan Mac | 
Randal Quran Reid was jailed after he was mistaken for a Louisiana suspect during a traffic stop near Atlanta ...
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Vaccines for heart disease and cancer? Moderna says immunization against the world’s deadliest diseases could be here by 2030

Lisa O’Mary | 
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

Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to detect crop diseases are on the way

Saugat Bolakhe | 
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 ...
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When did the Anthropocene — the age of humankind — begin?

Elise Kjørstad | 
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

Ovaries in a dish? Lab-grown eggs are on the horizon

Ryan Cross | 
George Church is known for pushing the boundaries of biology. Now one of his latest projects could have enormous implications ...
How far away are we from the insight and wisdom of AI sentience?

How will we know if artificial intelligence gains true sentience?

Steven Novella | 
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

Edible circuits: Food-fueled batteries could be safely used inside the body to power the future

Carolyn Wilke | 
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

Video: How to walk inside your own dreams with ChatGPT

Rob Waugh | 
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

Viewpoint: Existential ethics — Pondering the extinction of the global human population

Émile Torres | 
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.

In Darwinian twist, AI could go ‘Terminator’ and gain upper hand over humans. Here’s how.

Emma Colton | 
Artificial intelligence could gain the upper hand over humanity and pose "catastrophic" risks under the Darwinian rules of evolution, a ...
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