- newA 590-Foot-Tall Dam in China Will Be Built Entirely by Robots
As the world rushes to stop burning fossil fuels and implement more renewable sources of power, there’s a lot of hype around solar and wind. While they’re comparatively easier to get up and running, these energy sources don’t have nearly the sa…
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- We’re in the Midst of an Unprecedented Democratic Effort. Let’s Stop Messing It Up
Masks. Vaccines. Immigration. Abortion. Gun control. Taxes. The list of divisive issues in American politics goes on, with liberals and conservatives seeming more polarized and less able to agree than ever before. Indeed, democracy is in a fragile st…
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- A One-and-Done CRISPR Gene Therapy Will Aim to Prevent Heart Attacks
In a few months, a daring clinical trial may fundamentally lower heart attack risk in the most vulnerable people. If all goes well, it will just take one shot. It’s no ordinary shot. The trial, led by Verve Therapeutics, a biotechnology company bas…
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- Moon Settlers: Scientists Say Plants Will Grow Best in Lunar ‘Soil’ From Fresh Impact Craters
What do you need to make your garden grow? As well as plenty of sunshine alternating with gentle showers of rain—and busy bees and butterflies to pollinate the plants—you need good, rich soil to provide essential minerals. But imagine you had no…
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- This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through May 14)
COMPUTING IBM’s Target: a 4,000-Qubit Processor by 2025 Edd Gent | IEEE Spectrum “The first iteration of [IBM’s 2020] road map topped out with the [1,121-qubit] Condor processor that is scheduled for release in 2023, but now the company has rev…
- 5 days ago 14 May 22, 2:00pm -
- A New Space Academy in Colorado Will Train Private-Industry Astronauts
There are still plenty of technical hurdles to cross to achieve a vibrant space economy, but one less-discussed barrier to progress could be space-ready manpower. That’s why a group of astronauts, engineers, and entrepreneurs have teamed up to crea…
- 6 days ago 13 May 22, 2:58pm -
- The Standard Model of Particle Physics May Be Broken
As a physicist working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern, one of the most frequent questions I am asked is “When are you going to find something?”. Resisting the temptation to sarcastically reply “Aside from the Higgs boson, which won…
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- This Portable Wind Turbine Is the Size of a Water Bottle and Charges Devices in Under an Hour
Five years ago, a startup called Semtive Energy took the concept of a wind turbine, shrank it down to the size of a garden shrub, and started marketing it directly to households; much like rooftop solar panels, the mini turbine is intended to help ho…
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- A Virus Just Wiped Out Antibiotic-Resistant Infection in an Immunocompromised Patient
When Dr. Jessica Little laid eyes on the 56-year-old man, Mr. M, she immediately knew he was in bad shape. Striking, painful red welts dotted his entire arm. He knew the cause of his rashes: an infection by Mycobacterium chelonae, a bacteria that eat…
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- Nanomagnetic Computing Could Drastically Cut AI’s Energy Use
As the Internet of Things expands, engineers want to embed AI into everything, but the amount of energy it requires is a challenge for the smallest and most remote devices. A new “nanomagnetic” computing approach could provide a solution. While m…
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