Road Trip? New Record-Crushing Battery Lasts 1.2 Million Miles in Electric Cars . Electric cars had their biggest year ever in 2019. As of the end of the year, 2.5 percent of the world’s total cars were electric. It’s a small percentage, but represents significant growth for the ele...

Evolution: Why It Seems to Have a Direction and What to Expect Next . The diversity and complexity of life on Earth is astonishing: 8 million or more living species—from algae to elephants—all evolved from a simple, single-celled common ancestor around 3.5 billion years ...

Scientists 3D Printed Ears Inside Living Mice Using Light . Tissue engineering just got wilder and weirder.

Using nothing but light and bioink, scientists were able to directly print a human ear-like structure under the skin of mice. The team used a healthy ear...

Computing Power Can Keep Growing as Moore's Law Winds Down. Here's How . Moore’s Law is faltering, but that doesn’t mean the end of progress in processing power. Rather than relying on semiconductor physics and silicon-fabrication technology, though, we need to turn to inno...

Facial Recognition and Digital Surveillance Are Ending Anonymous Protest . It’s been almost two weeks since people first took to the streets in Minneapolis to protest police brutality following the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor at the hands of the police. Since th...

Fixing What's Broken: If We Build a Moral Economy, the Future Will Be Better . Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, we’ve been eagerly awaiting a return to normal. We want to be able to go out again, see our friends, and be in public places without feeling like we’re risking our ...

Artificial Kidneys Are a Step Closer With This New Tech . 10 percent of the global population suffers from some form of kidney disease. That includes 37 million people in the US, 100,000 of whom pass away each year awaiting a kidney transplant.

Our kidneys ar...

How a Crowdsourcing Challenge Turbocharged Brain Research During Lockdown . “I had a dream my paintbrush split while I was picking up brain slices. Nightmare scenario, right? Then I woke up and thought: I really miss the lab,” a neuroscientist friend of mine recently lamented ...

Carbon Nanotube Transistors May Soon Give Waning Moore's Law a Boost . Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have long been touted as a potential material to take us beyond the limits of faltering silicon chips, but they’ve proven tricky to manufacture. Now scientists have demonstrated...

Microsoft Just Built a World-Class Supercomputer Exclusively for OpenAI . Last year, Microsoft announced a billion-dollar investment in OpenAI, an organization whose mission is to create artificial general intelligence and make it safe for humanity. No Terminator-like dystop...