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Scientists Engineer Bacteria to Recycle Plastic Waste Into Valuable Chemicals

Plastic waste is clogging up our rivers and oceans and causing long-lasting environmental damage that is only just starting to come into focus. But...

Alien Megastructures? Cosmic Thumbprint? Here’s What’s Behind This Spectacular James Webb Image

In July, a puzzling new image of a distant extreme star system surrounded by surreal concentric geometric rings had even astronomers scratching their heads....

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through October 15)

9 Astonishing Ways That Living Standards Have Improved Around the WorldTony Morley | Big Think“Over the last 200 years, the lives of average people...

This Exoskeleton Uses Machine Learning to Put a Personalized Spring in Your Step

Exoskeletons have been largely confined to the realm of fiction, appearing in sci-fi or superhero movies to make characters stronger, taller, or more destructive...

This Exoskeleton Uses AI to Help People Walk Faster With Less Energy

Exoskeletons have been largely confined to the realm of fiction, appearing in sci-fi or superhero movies to make characters stronger, taller, or more destructive...

AI Image Generation Is Advancing at Astronomical Speeds. Can We Still Tell if a Picture Is Fake?

Fake photography is nothing new. In the 1910s, British author Arthur Conan Doyle was famously deceived by two school-aged sisters who had produced photographs...

The Moon May Have Formed Just Hours After Earth Collided With a Protoplanet

Cast your mind back to when Earth was a baby. The solar system was a brutal nursery. Giant fragments of rock whirled chaotically around...

DeepMind AI One-Ups Mathematicians at a Calculation Crucial to Computing

DeepMind has done it again.After solving a fundamental challenge in biology—predicting protein structure—and untangling the mathematics of knot theory, it’s taken aim at a...

This AI Uses a Scan of Your Retina to Predict Your Risk of Heart Disease

Heart disease is the number one cause of death among American adults. Conditions like obesity or diabetes increase a person’s risk of developing heart...

Six Recent Discoveries That Have Changed How We Think About Human Origins

Scientific study of human evolution historically reassured us of a comforting order to things. It has painted humans as cleverer, more intellectual, and more...

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through October 8)

DeepMind’s Game-Playing AI Has Beaten a 50-Year-Old Record in Computer ScienceWill Douglas Heaven | MIT Technology Review“The headline result is that AlphaTensor discovered a...

Longtermism: The Future Is Vast—What Does This Mean for Our Own Life?

If we manage to avoid a large catastrophe, we are living at the early beginnings of human history. The point of this text is...

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