What 'Chernobyl' Can Teach Us About Failure. I've been watching the outstanding HBO series Chernobyl, which details the worst nuclear reactor meltdown in human history--an event that was approximately 400 times more potent than the atomic bomb dro...

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What If We Visualized Humanity's Future in Millennia Instead of Centuries? "Where do you see yourself in five years?" It's a classic job interview question, designed to probe your level of ambition and aspiration. And it probes about as far ahead as many of us are likely to t...

Moving Beyond Mind-Controlled Limbs to Prosthetics That Can Actually 'Feel'. Brain-machine interface enthusiasts often gush about "closing the loop." It's for good reason. On the implant level, it means engineering smarter probes that only activate when they detect faulty elect...

Exploring the Great Mysteries of Consciousness and Free Will With Annaka Harris. For thousands of years, humankind has been plagued by to two essential questions: Why do I have this unique voice inside my head? And am I in control of it or am I simply a passenger? The concepts of c...

Scientists Just Released a New Playbook for Engineering Longer, Healthier Lives. It's hard to pinpoint the exact moment anti-aging research morphed from quackery to an established science. Some say it's 1939, when an experiment that restricted calories in rodents bizarrely increase...

Microsoft Invests $1 Billion in OpenAI's Mission to Build Artificial General Intelligence. Since its inception in 2015, OpenAI has been chasing the lofty goal of developing artificial general intelligence (AGI) for the benefit of all. But it turns out that doesn't come cheap, so now Microsof...

First Human CRISPR Trial in the US Aims to Cure Inherited Blindness. Gene editing is advancing at a faster pace than most of us can keep up with. One significant recent announcement was gene editing tool CRISPR's application to non-genetic diseases thanks to a new abili...

This Week's Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through July 27). ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Microsoft Invests $1 Billion in OpenAI to Pursue Holy Grail of Artificial Intelligence James Vincent | The Verge "i'The creation of AGI will be the most important technological ...

Brain-Machine Interfaces Are Getting Better and Better--and Neuralink's New Brain Implant Pushes the Pace. Elon Musk grabbed a lot of attention with his July 16 announcement that his company Neuralink plans to implant electrodes into the brains of people with paralysis by next year. Their first goal is to c...