The Download: A promising retina implant, and how climate change affects flowers
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 AWS is recovering from a major ...
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Meet the man building a starter kit for civilization
You live in a house you designed and built yourself. You rely on the sun for power, heat your home ...
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The problem with Big Tech’s favorite carbon removal tech
While corporations, including tech giants like Microsoft, are betting big on this technology, there are a few potential problems with ...
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The Download: The rehabilitation of AI art, and the scary truth about antimicrobial resistance
In this era of AI slop, the idea that generative AI tools like Midjourney and Runway could be used to ...
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This startup thinks slime mold can help us design better cities
Officially known as Physarum polycephalum, slime mold is neither plant, animal, nor fungus but a single-celled organism older than dinosaurs. ...
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Take our quiz: How much do you know about antimicrobial resistance?
This week we had some terrifying news from the World Health Organization: Antibiotics are failing us. A growing number of ...
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AI is changing how we quantify pain
PainChek was cleared by Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration in 2017, and national rollout funding from Canberra helped embed it in ...
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The Download: Big Tech’s carbon removals plans, and the next wave of nuclear reactors
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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The Download: aging clocks, and repairing the internet
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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An earthling’s guide to planet hunting
But there’s another way over these hurdles. At her lab among the redwoods, Jensen-Clem and her students experiment with new ...
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