For everyone's safety, humans are likely to remain a necessary central component of air traffic control for a long time to come. | Continue reading
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Electron beam welding could accelerate manufacturing of small modular reactors, helping make nuclear power a part of our clean energy future. | Continue reading
Researchers have built a device that helps users feel temperature through a prosthetic arm. A new study shows it works with high accuracy. | Continue reading
Nvidia’s Chat with RTX tool lets you create a custom chatbot that runs locally on your PC and can answer questions about your personal files. | Continue reading
For around 500 years, the printed word shaped our education and culture. What lessons can we learn from it in the new age of AI? | Continue reading
Researchers survey the therapeutic potential of noninvasive sensory, electrical, or magnetic stimulation of gamma brain rhythms. | Continue reading
NASA is developing autonomous space robots to build shelters, solar arrays, and more on the moon and Mars. | Continue reading
This is the year you can finally buy a car on Amazon. Well, one kind. Eventually. On Nov. 16, 2023, at the Los Angeles Auto Show, Amazon and Hyundai made a […] | Continue reading
A new study suggests that gigantic solar farms could be used to create “heat islands” that make rain locally. | Continue reading
Scientists have identified 18 new tidal disruption events (TDEs) — when a nearby star is tidally drawn into a black hole and ripped apart. | Continue reading
OpenAI's new text-to-video AI, Sora, will let anyone transform their ideas directly into video and the implications are breathtaking. | Continue reading
Apple has forbidden developers from using "VR," "AR," or "MR" to describe their Vision Pro apps. That’s a mistake. | Continue reading
Gaming embraces design elements that promote social connection, creativity, a sense of autonomy – and, ultimately, the sheer joy of mastery. | Continue reading
By growing cow cells inside rice, Korean researchers boosted its protein content by 8%, without substantially increasing its cost. | Continue reading
Freethink's weekly countdown of the biggest space news, featuring the launch of PACE, the discovery of Mimas' ocean, and more. | Continue reading
Wildfire season length, frequency, and burn area have increased in the past few decades. To combat this, scientists are combining supercomputer technology with indigenous prescribed burn practices. | Continue reading
Biotech firm Light Bio is selling gene-edited bioluminescent plants that glow green in the dark for just $29. | Continue reading
Six biotech companies just merged to form Alys Pharmaceuticals with the goal of developing new treatments for skin disorders. | Continue reading
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Inserting a mutation found in cancer cells into CAR-T cells enabled them to kill a variety of solid tumors in mice. | Continue reading
Research highlights three effective strategies to help you achieve your goals, including prioritizing short-term consequences. | Continue reading
Scientists say cameras have a “civilizing effect.” These body cams increase workplace safety. | Continue reading
A new lithium-ion battery that includes a cathode based on organic materials could offer a more sustainable way to power electric cars. | Continue reading
A protein called “KIBRA” could be the key to new Alzheimer’s treatments that don’t just slow disease progression, but reverse memory loss. | Continue reading
Open-source AIs and commercial hardware may be enough to build domestic robots that can take over our chores. | Continue reading
What is it that makes twins so special, and how do researchers harness the power of twins? "You Are What You Eat" helps prove their importance. | Continue reading
The first 3D-printed brain organoids that function like natural brain tissue could lead to breakthroughs in neuroscience. | Continue reading
There are two ways to make a fortune. The first is where, like Rolex, you sell a relatively small number of luxury, designer products at an eye-watering high price. The […] | Continue reading
From "inverse vaccines" to repurposed cancer therapies, several potential cures for autoimmune diseases are showing serious promise. | Continue reading
OpenAI is reportedly developing “AI agents,” software that can perform tasks on people’s devices upon request. | Continue reading
To train their machine learning models, MIT researchers used electronic health record data from various institutions across the U.S. | Continue reading
Archer Aviation’s electric air taxi has completed its first phase of flight testing, bringing the eVTOL one step closer to commercial service. | Continue reading
The JET tokamak set a new world record for generating energy from nuclear fusion during its final experiment. | Continue reading
At this time of year many of us resolve to prioritise our health. So it is no surprise there’s a roaring trade of products purporting to guarantee you live longer, be healthier […] | Continue reading
Google's new text-to-video model, Lumiere, promises a new architecture that will make video AI models more modern and powerful. | Continue reading
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Google just made its most capable generative AI — Gemini Ultra — available to the public, while killing the “Bard” brand. | Continue reading
A CRISPR treatment for hereditary angioedema significantly reduced swelling attacks in its first human trial. | Continue reading
Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ new painkiller, VX-548, significantly reduced moderate-to-severe pain in two phase 3 trials. | Continue reading
MIT engineers have designed diagnostic particles that can be aerosolized and inhaled to find cancer-associated proteins in the lungs. | Continue reading
Stanford scientists have discovered a strange new class of virus-like organisms, called “obelisks,” in the human gut microbiome. | Continue reading
Searching isn’t what it used to be, and chatbots can be clunky — will the Browser Company's Arc Search app replace both? | Continue reading
A civil and environment engineer weighs in on whether electric trucks are our best bet to cut road transport emissions. | Continue reading
Using modern DNA analysis techniques, archaeologists have solved the mystery of who made a class of ancient stone tools. | Continue reading
Gene-edited tomatoes that can grow with less water could help solve the problem of feeding a world battling increased water scarcity. | Continue reading
At the center of nearly every massive galaxy is a supermassive black hole ranging from millions to tens of billions of solar masses. | Continue reading
From loading the car with sensors to teaching its AI to “think” like a human driver, there's more than one way to train an autonomous car. | Continue reading