Can anti-aging breakthroughs add 10 healthy years to the human life span? The CEO of OpenAI is paying to find out. When a startup called Retro Biosciences eased out of stealth mode in mid-2022, it […]

Efforts to replicate the material have pieced together the puzzle of why it displayed superconducting-like behaviours. Researchers seem to have solved the puzzle of LK-99. Scientific detective work has unearthed evidence that the material is […]

Progress towards fully capable and practical quantum computers isn’t slowing down, and researchers from Google are the latest to announce a significant step forward in the capabilities of today’s machines. While we call these devices […]

Three-dimensional bioprinting technology offers great potential in the treatment of tissue and organ damage. Three-dimensional bioprinting uses bio-inks mixed with living cells to print natural tissue-like structures. Currently, this technology can be applied to various […]

The MAPLE experiment was able to wirelessly transfer collected solar power to receivers in space and direct energy to Earth. A space solar power prototype has demonstrated its ability to wirelessly beam power through space […]

Christof Koch wagered David Chalmers 25 years ago that researchers would learn how the brain achieves consciousness by now. But the quest continues. Consciousness is everything a person experiences — what they taste, hear, feel […]

A 53-year-old man has become the third patient ever to be completely cured of HIV after receiving stem cell transplantation, German researchers have announced. The so-called “Düsseldorf patient”—who was diagnosed with HIV in 2008—had received […]

Science is the engine of society, and the decline of truly disruptive research is a warning sign for all of us. There might be more science now, but it feels like it adds up to […]

Last year, Verve Therapeutics started the first human trial of a CRISPR treatment that could benefit most people—a signal that gene editing may be ready to go mainstream. Gene-editing treatments work by directly altering the […]

Physicists in China report that they have built a tractor beam capable of moving objects on the macroscale. In the latest issue of Optics Express, the group reports that when using a 90mW laser, their […]

Not just inspired by chaos theory, but directly created from its mathematical principles. A team of Italian scientists has figured out a way of turning the striking, complex twisting shapes of chaos theory into actual […]

MIT engineers have developed ultralight and thinner-than-hair fabric solar cells that transform any surface into a power generator within seconds of plastering them. The durable and flexible solar cells are pasted to a super-light fabric, […]

An astronomy professor from Johns Hopkins University has given us the chance to zoom way out in both time and space with an interactive map of the observable universe. “In this map, we are just […]

Diffusion models generate incredible images by learning to reverse the process that, among other things, causes ink to spread through water. Ask DALL·E 2, an image generation system created by OpenAI, to paint a picture […]

“Music so readily transports us from the present to the past, or from what is actual to what is possible.” “Music,” the trailblazing composer Julia Perry wrote, “has a unifying effect on the peoples of […]

Esquire speaks to Professor David Hughes, who consulted on the original “The Last of Us” videogame. At the beginning of the first episode of The Last Of Us, there’s a fictional 1968 TV broadcast in […]

Andrew Parker has produced some of the brightest hues in the world. So, what’s his secret? Andrew Parker, an English inventor, artist and zoologist at the University of Oxford, thinks color is not a thing. […]

With beginnings, endings, and new discoveries, space was a busy place in 2022. New Atlas looks back at the best space stories of the past 12 months. Once in full operation, the James Webb Space […]

An experiment tests whether the gene-editing technology can stop the virus from replicating, which would ultimately wipe out the infection. In July, an HIV-positive man became the first volunteer in a clinical trial aimed at […]

Proposed by Qian Xuesen in the ‘90s as a new scientific discipline, the “meta-synthetic approach” to study the “open complex giant system” still exerts influence over thinking on high-tech social management, smart cities, and state […]

The technique had largely been limited to editing patients’ cells in the lab. New research shows promise for treating diseases more directly. One of the challenges of turning test tube Crispr discoveries into cures for […]

AI is a key technological enabler of aging research and the only hope to move the longevity progress fast enough for the existing generation to live longer than nature currently permits. Helping people live healthier […]

The find makes China the third country to discover a new mineral on the Moon, and the country says it’s analyzed the soil for rare helium-3. China has discovered a crystal from the Moon made […]

“It’s really remarkable that we can see details on Jupiter together with its rings, tiny satellites, and even galaxies in one image.” NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is designed to probe the farthest frontiers of […]

The first full-colour picture from the new James Webb Space Telescope has been released – and it doesn’t disappoint. The image is said to be the deepest, most detailed infrared view of the Universe to […]

The gene-editing technology has led to innovations in medicine, evolution and agriculture — and raised profound ethical questions about altering human DNA. In just a decade, CRISPR has become one of the most celebrated inventions […]

NASA announced that it is putting together an independent team of researchers this fall to study sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs, the updated term now used to refer to UFOs. The space agency […]

Thanks to advances in neuroscience and microelectronics engineering, we finally have a tool that will let us begin to reverse engineer the wonders of the brain. People often think of technology as applied science, but […]

Physicists are building neural networks out of vibrations, voltages and lasers, arguing that the future of computing lies in exploiting the universe’s complex physical behaviors. When it comes to conventional machine learning, computer scientists have […]

In the jungle of Suriname, the German-born Swiss naturalist, entomologist and botanical artist Maria Sibylla Merian discovered insect metamorphosis. This animation celebrates her many notable contributions to the natural sciences in an age when such […]