The ice cores that will let us look 1.5 million years into the past
Moving quickly and carefully in two layers of gloves, Florian Krauss sets a cube of…
The Download: reusing heat from computers, and period research
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Tiny faux organs could crack the mystery of menstruation
In the center of the laboratory dish, there was a subtle white film that could…
This UK startup engineered a clever way to reuse waste heat from cloud computing
Using heat generated by computers to provide free hot water was an idea born not…
A chemo drug shortage shows the vulnerability of the healthcare supply chains
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The Download: open source’s future, and cancer drugs shortages
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The future of open source is still very much in flux
When Xerox donated a new laser printer to the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab in 1980,…
What’s changed in the US since the breakthrough climate bill passed a year ago?
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The Download: AI in warfare, and US climate policies
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Inside the messy ethics of making war with machines
In a near-future war—one that might begin tomorrow, for all we know—a soldier takes up…