Generative AI hype distracts us from AI’s more important breakthroughs
On April 28, 2022, at a highly anticipated concert in Spokane, Washington, the musician Paul McCartney astonished his audience with
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Southeast Asia seeks its place in space
__________________________Thai Space Expo October 16-18, 2025 ___Bangkok, Thailand It’s a scorching October day in Bangkok and I’m wandering through the
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How one controversial startup hopes to cool the planet
Stardust Solutions believes that it can solve climate change—for a price. The Israel-based geoengineering startup has said it expects nations
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The Download: spotting crimes in prisoners’ phone calls, and nominate an Innovator Under 35
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world
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What’s next for AlphaFold: A conversation with a Google DeepMind Nobel laureate
In 2017, fresh off a PhD on theoretical chemistry, John Jumper heard rumors that Google DeepMind had moved on from
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These technologies could help put a stop to animal testing
Earlier this week, the UK’s science minister announced an ambitious plan: to phase out animal testing. Testing potential skin irritants
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The Download: gene-edited babies, and cleaning up copper
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The Download: down the Mandela effect rabbit hole, and the promise of a vaccine for colds
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Engineering better care
Every Monday, more than a hundred members of Giovanni Traverso’s Laboratory for Translational Engineering (L4TE) fill a large classroom at
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