How AI is helping historians better understand our past
It’s an evening in 1531, in the city of Venice. In a printer’s workshop, an…
The Download: heat-storing bricks, and using AI to understand history
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s…
Behind the scenes of Carnegie Mellon’s heated privacy dispute
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The hottest new climate technology is bricks
A handful of startups think bricks that hold heat could be the key to bringing…
Delivering a quantum future
More companies are starting to consider the impact that quantum computing will have on their…
Synthetic embryos have been implanted into monkey wombs
Embryos made from stem cells—instead of a sperm and egg—have been created from monkey cells…
High-quality data enables medical research
One unexpected side effect of the covid-19 pandemic was that the usually obscure world of…
We can use stem cells to make embryos. How far should we go?
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These deep-sea “potatoes” could be the future of mining for renewable energy
I’ve been on the road this week, and by a stroke of luck I got…