Inside a fusion energy facility
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The Download: US house-building barriers, and a fusion energy facility tour
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The Download: mysterious exosomes, and AI’s e-waste issue
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The arrhythmia of our current age
Thumpa-thumpa, thumpa-thumpa, bump, thumpa, skip, thumpa-thump, pause … My heart wasn’t supposed to be beating…
Cultivating the next generation of AI innovators in a global tech hub
A few years ago, I had to make one of the biggest decisions of my…
An easier-to-use technique for storing data in DNA is inspired by our cells
It turns out that you don’t need to be a scientist to encode data in…
The Download: coping in a time of arrhythmia, and DNA data storage
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The Download: an interview with Palmer Luckey, and AI-assisted math tutors
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Exosomes are touted as a trendy cure-all. We don’t know if they work.
There’s a trendy new cure-all in town—you might have seen ads pop up on social…
AI will add to the e-waste problem. Here’s what we can do about it.
Generative AI could account for up to 5 million metric tons of e-waste by 2030,…