With the end of 2022 approaching fast, we took a look back at the stories that struck a chord with readers this year. Below, you’ll find Singularity Hub’s 10 most-read articles of 2022. They’re a diverse bunch: from a quantum computer demonstrating quantum advantage—the ever-flui … | Continue reading
The entire process happens below our consciousness, suppressing unwanted memories so that they never surface to awareness. | Continue reading
Viewing consciousness through the lens of a memory system could provide new clues to brain disorders like epilepsy and dementia. | Continue reading
The team found that heating the battery didn’t seriously affect its lifetime, as it survived 2,000 cycles of charging. | Continue reading
A new type of material can learn and improve its ability to deal with unexpected forces thanks to a design inspired by artificial intelligence. | Continue reading
Not only did multiple hominins overlap in time and space, but matings were relatively common. | Continue reading
The generators sit on the edge of a building’s roof, taking advantage of the aerodynamic effect created by the wall below. | Continue reading
The study is a proof of concept that neurons in a dish can be a sophisticated learning machine and adapt to a goal in a virtual environment. | Continue reading
A new approach that combines biological and chemical processes could greatly simplify the process of recycling mixed plastics. | Continue reading
A new James Webb image of an extreme star system surrounded by surreal, geometric rings had even astronomers scratching their heads. | Continue reading
There’s a short learning curve, but on average the algorithm was able to effectively tailor itself to new users in just an hour. | Continue reading
We can now conjure any image we want, just by typing; they're entirely new images with the content, quality, and style specified. | Continue reading
AlphaTensor opens the door to a world where AI designs programs that outperform anything humans engineer—including AI itself. | Continue reading
The team compared their data to 10-year FRS predictions and said the algorithm’s accuracy was on par with the risk assessment tool. | Continue reading
New discoveries have upended the traditional view of human evolution, changing how we see ourselves today—and how we might imagine our future. | Continue reading
Our actions have an impact on the large number of people who will live after us, and should matter for how we think about our own lives. | Continue reading
Once the concrete dries, the form isn’t stripped away; it stays where it is, serving as an airtight barrier for waterproofing and insulation. | Continue reading
With the growth towers it’s using, the Scottish forest service is estimated to be able to grow three million seedlings at a time. | Continue reading
NVIDIA says digital twins of Earth's climate, like its Earth-2 system, can help us better plan for and adapt to our rapidly changing climate. | Continue reading
At that pace, DALL-E's output will equal the combined libraries of Getty and Shutterstock in eight months. And it's just getting started. | Continue reading
The Allen Institute in Seattle will lead the project, but it involves collaboration across 17 other institutions in the US, Europe, and Japan. | Continue reading
The cost of desalination is projected to remain considerably higher than the cost of feasible alternatives for the next several decades. | Continue reading
Eighty-six percent of survey respondents said they’ll likely want to stick with a four-day work week after the trial ends in three months. | Continue reading
To meet its potential, VR needs better displays with far more pixels per inch. Luckily, experts say new materials and designs are on the way. | Continue reading
A new Oxford study suggests a quick renewable transition could save money compared to taking things slowly or doing nothing at all. | Continue reading
Despite growing interest in developing household robots that can do our chores, we may have to wait awhile before we can buy one. | Continue reading
The future of food production does not need to follow the destructive path that it did in the past. | Continue reading
Corneal blindness is one of the leading causes of blindness globally, accounting for over five percent of cases. | Continue reading
Scientists studying ancient minerals in Western Australia found tantalizing clues suggesting the giant impact hypothesis might be right. | Continue reading
In 2019 Google claimed its Sycamore processor had solved a problem that would take a supercomputer 10,000 years in just 200 seconds. | Continue reading
It is hard to imagine how dire living conditions once were, and that makes it difficult to grasp just how much the world has changed. | Continue reading
A number of steelmakers are experimenting with low-carbon technologies that use hydrogen or electricity instead of traditional manufacturing. | Continue reading
We’re all really hoping not to see another pandemic, but Stellar says one selling point of its pies is that no human hands touch them. | Continue reading
The technology could help with the current organ transplant shortage and health emergencies caused by constricted blood flow. | Continue reading
A further ten minutes of harassment with a stick taught it how to withstand and recover from being pushed around by its handlers. | Continue reading
While our clocks indicate there are exactly 24 hours in a day, the actual time it takes for Earth to complete a rotation varies slightly. | Continue reading
The reactors come with safety features designed to prevent the kind of disasters that have hardened public opinion against nuclear power. | Continue reading
The panels were designed as a replacement for brick and cement, which are expensive, difficult to make, and heavy on emissions. | Continue reading
Researchers have engineered a biological recorder that can capture a cell’s gene expression history on a DNA “tape” for days at a time. | Continue reading
By building chips whose components act more like natural neurons and synapses, we might be able to approach the efficiency of the human brain. | Continue reading
An Australian dark matter detector recently completed a search for a a popular dark matter candidate particle called an axion. | Continue reading
Meatable says it only takes a few weeks to take its product from cell growth initiation to ready-to-eat sausages. | Continue reading
Getting custom, high-quality prosthetics to people in war zones would have been impossible just five or ten years ago. | Continue reading
For 95% of our species’ history, we didn’t farm, create large settlements, or form complex political hierarchies. Then, something changed. | Continue reading
169 sun-tracking reflective panels redirect and concentrate sunlight into the solar reactor perched on top of a 49-foot-high tower. | Continue reading
No one knows for sure why we can't remember the things that happened to us when we were infants—but scientists have a few guesses. | Continue reading
When an aircraft flies close to a horizontal surface, it disrupts the airflow beneath the wings and reduces the overall drag on the vehicle. | Continue reading
The good news is we still have time to close the gap between “could” and “should” in how scientists redesign and reengineer genetic code. | Continue reading