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- Scientists Just Achieved Room Temperature Superconductivity for the First TimeSuperconductivity could be the key to groundbreaking new technologies in energy, computing, and transportation, but so far it only occurs in materials chilled close to absolute zero. Now researchers ha...4 min
- When Did We Become Fully Human? What Fossils and DNA Tell Us About the Evolution of Modern IntelligenceWhen did something like us first appear on the planet? It turns out there’s remarkably little agreement on this question. Fossils and DNA suggest people looking like us, anatomically modern Homo sapien...9 min
- NASA's About to Try Grabbing a Chunk of Asteroid to Bring to Earth—and You Can WatchIf you’ve seen the movie The Martian, you no doubt remember the rescue scene, in which (spoiler alert!) Matt Damon launches himself off Mars in a stripped-down rocket in hopes of his carefully-calculat...5 min
- Scientists Found a New Way to Control the Brain With Light—No Surgery RequiredIf I had to place money on a neurotech that will win the Nobel Prize, it’s optogenetics.The technology uses light of different frequencies to control the brain. It’s a brilliant mind-meld of basic neu...9 min
- The US Is Trying to Hijack Space Mining, and There Could Be Disastrous ConsequencesExploiting the resources of outer space might be key to the future expansion of the human species. But researchers argue that the US is trying to skew the game in its favor, with potentially disastrous...5 min
- Watch a Jet Suit Pilot Glide Up a Mountain in a Test for Wilderness ParamedicsA few years ago, I saw a guy in a jet suit take off in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. The roar was deafening, the smell of fuel overwhelming. Over the span of a few minutes, he hovered above the gro...5 min
- A New Factory in France Will Mass-Produce Bugs as FoodThough the world’s population is no longer predicted to grow as much as we thought by the end of this century, there are still going to be a lot more people on Earth in 30, 50, and 80 years than there ...4 min
- 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded for Work on Black Holes—an Astrophysicist Explains the Trailblazing DiscoveriesBlack holes are perhaps the most mysterious objects in nature. They warp space and time in extreme ways and contain a mathematical impossibility, a singularity—an infinitely hot and dense object within...5 min
- How Machine Learning Made Hops-Free Hoppy Beer (and Other SynBio Wonders) PossibleSynthetic biology is like a reality-altering version of Minecraft. Rather than digital blocks, synthetic biology rejiggers the basic building blocks of life—DNA, proteins, biochemical circuits—to rewir...9 min
- New Reactor Design Could Produce First Ever Energy-Positive Fusion ReactionNuclear fusion has gone from a scientists’ pipe dream to a technology attracting serious investment. Now one of the startups chasing this holy grail of energy production has published a series of peer-...4 min
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