The US agency in charge of developing fossil fuels has a new job: cleaning them up
In his first month in office, US President Joe Biden signed an executive order calling…
The Download: Twitter’s edit button, and cleaning up fossil fuels
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A new gene therapy based on antibody cells is about to be tested in humans
During the covid-19 pandemic, antibodies played a front-and-center role. We used home tests to look…
The Download: gene therapy and AI chip wars
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How ammonia could help clean up global shipping
Ammonia might seem like an unlikely fuel to help cut greenhouse-gas emissions. Best known for…
What does GPT-3 “know” about me?
For a reporter who covers AI, one of the biggest stories this year has been…
The Download: AI privacy risks, and cleaning up shipping
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New 6G challenges inspire cross-disciplinary innovation
Roger Nichols remembers sending his first e-mail using wireless networks in the early 1990s, from…
The Download: EV havoc in China, and the first private Venus mission
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The first private mission to Venus will have just five minutes to hunt for life
As the covid pandemic raged in late 2020, all eyes turned briefly from our troubled…