Will AI Be Fashion Forward—or a Fashion Flop? . The narrative that often accompanies most stories about artificial intelligence these days is how machines will disrupt any number of industries, from healthcare to transportation. It makes sense. Afte...

Augmented 2030: the Apps, Headsets, and Lenses Getting Us There . Today, adults in the US spend over 11 hours a day looking at screens. That counts for more than a third of our livelihoods. Yet even though they serve as a portal to 90 percent of our media consumption...

How a Mysterious Manuscript Keeps Confounding AI . Playbook for the Cult of Isis, herbal health instructions, details of the benefits of therapeutic bathing, or a written history of speaking in tongues. Confused? Probably, but not as much as most are w...

New Hybrid Brain Map Reveals How Neurons Connect . Projects that map the billions of connections within entire brains have always had a tinge of grandiosity. Yet to connectomists, these projects aren’t just the key to cracking the brain’s ultimate myst...

How an AI Startup Designed a Drug Candidate in Just 46 Days. Discovering a new drug can take decades, billions of dollars, and untold man hours from some of the smartest people on the planet. Now a startup says it's taken a significant step towards speeding the ...

Lab-Grown Minibrains Show Activity Similar to Babies' Brains. Neurons are a collective bunch. Although each neuron receives, processes, and passes on information individually, the electrical spikes only make sense when melded together in waves of oscillating acti...

Introducing the Augmented World of 2030 . Augmented reality is about to add a digital intelligence layer to our every surrounding, transforming retail, manufacturing, education, tourism, real estate, and almost every major industry that holds ...

Build a Wall? A Wild Geoengineering Idea to Save the Glaciers. The seas are rising--currently at a rate of 3.3 millimeters per year, for a total of perhaps 240 millimeters since the industrial era began. Around a third of the rise so far has been due to the ocean e...

Cellular Computers Get a Boost with CRISPR. Cancer's impenetrable secrets partly rely on its mysterious molecular history. As cells turn to the dark side, a whirlwind of DNA changes gradually accumulate. Like flipping multiple interlinked light ...

Silicon Is Reaching its Limits. Up Next: Carbon Nanotubes. Silicon has powered the information age, but it's reaching its physical limits. Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) hold a lot of promise as a replacement if we can get around some key obstacles--and the designers ...