$100 Genome Sequencing Will Yield a Treasure Trove of Genetic Data—and Maybe a Dystopian Nightmare . What would the implications be if decoding your genes cost less than a pair of designer jeans? We might soon find out after a Chinese company claimed it can sequence the human genome for $100.

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This Electric Tiny Car Can Be Rented for the Price of an Electric Scooter . On any given day, in any given city, the roads are packed with cars, motorcycles, scooters, and bikes. It’s been like that for decades. Recently, though, there’s been a Cambrian explosion of alt transp...

This Tiny Electric Car Can Be Had for the Price of an Electric Scooter Rental . On any given day, in any given city, the roads are packed with cars, motorcycles, scooters, and bikes. It’s been like that for decades. Recently, though, there’s been a Cambrian explosion of alt transp...

This Tiny Electric Car Can Be Rented for the Price of a Scooter . On any given day, in any given city, the roads are packed with cars, motorcycles, scooters, and bikes. It’s been like that for decades. Recently, though, there’s been a Cambrian explosion of alt transp...

We Won't Have Fusion Generators in 5 Years. But the Holy Grail of Clean Energy May Still Be on Its Way . Recent reports from scientists pursuing a new kind of nuclear fusion technology are encouraging, but we are still some distance away from the “holy grail of clean energy.”

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Clean Water Should Be a Right, Not a Privilege. These Entrepreneurs Are Working to Make It So . Today, 785 million people lack access to clean drinking water. Waterborne diseases are the number one killer on Earth, claiming 3.4 million lives a year, most of them children. And by 2025, according t...

Gene Therapy Is Successfully Treating a Common Form of Inherited Blindness . K.L. always knew he might be completely blind before reaching adulthood.

Even as a child he realized something was wrong with his eyes. Although he could see enough to navigate the world in daytime, as...

The World’s First Open-Source Nuclear Reactor Blueprint Is Coming Online . Nuclear power’s role in combating climate change is a contentious topic, but a Silicon Valley entrepreneur thinks he can sway the debate by releasing open-source designs for a small-scale reactor that ...

For the First Time Ever, the World Is Mostly Middle Class and Largely Old . When it comes to economic development, positive change is typically gradual and only noticeable over long periods of time; by contrast negative developments—economic crises—are often rapid and spectacu...

AI Is an Energy-Guzzler. We Need to Re-Think Its Design, and Soon . There is a saying that has emerged among the tech set in recent years: AI is the new electricity. The platitude refers to the disruptive power of artificial intelligence for driving advances in everyth...