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Roman Yampolskiy spent two decades trying to prove superintelligence can be controlled. He couldn’t — and now says the proof runs the other way: not difficult, mathematically impossible. If he’s right, we’re building the one machine we can never switch off, and the people building it are racing to do it faster. Roman is a […]

A massive new meta-analysis reveals that individual cognitive abilities, like reading and math, rely on inherited DNA just as much as overall intelligence, suggesting people possess heavily customized genetic cognitive profiles independent of general smarts.

XI’AN — Chinese scientists have taken a major step toward building a space solar power station, a giant power plant in space that could one day send energy back to Earth or to spacecraft. A research team from Xidian University in Northwest China’s Shaanxi province has made significant progress on the Sun Chasing project, or […]

Our genetic heritage is not a blueprint or an algorithm, as many biologists have imagined, but something else entirely.

Are human brain cells the computer chips of the future? Three companies are competing to make biocomputers out of human neurons, and using them to play Doom, detect explosive molecules, and more. This is a conversation with Dr. Fred Jordan and Dr. Ewelina Kurtys of FinalSpark. We talk about the differences between AI’s \.

Inspired by the human brain, Oregon State University researchers have developed a new light-sensitive device that combines sensing and memory while controlling how digital memories strengthen or fade over time. The research was published in Advanced Functional Materials. Technology that functions more like the human brain could enable artificial intelligence systems to work faster while […]

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David Brin warned us. In 1989. Global warming. Cyberwarfare. The World Wide Web, named in a novel before most people had ever heard of it. I recorded this conversation with him 14 years ago. Astrophysicist. Hugo and Nebula winner. The mind behind the Uplift novels and Existence. We dug into the most powerful form of […]

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University of Florida researchers are exploring how lasers could help astronauts build structures on the moon using materials already available there, including lunar soil transformed into glass. The work, led by Victoria M. Miller, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering and researcher with the UF Astraeus Space Institute, recently completed […]

We propose a roadmap to guide research and innovation integrating replacement and next-generation damage-removal therapeutics to modulate the ageing process in the whole body, restore biological function, and extend healthy lifespan.

Preliminary study finds that testosterone levels increase or stabilize in people taking GLP-1 medications.

The most comprehensive stimulus presentation software for behavioral research. MRI Response System — fMRI Button Response Units with 5-button, 3-button, 2-button, and joystick options. USB training units also available.

By probing the Universe on atomic scales and smaller, we can reveal the entirety of the Standard Model, and with it, the quantum Universe.

NASA’s Swift space observatory is falling out of orbit. Can a commercial company build a spacecraft in nine months to save it?

Researchers around the world are racing to develop new quantum-based systems for sensing, communication, computing, and control that have the promise of outperforming traditional systems. Creating stable, measurable, distinguishable quantum states, which would be the heart of any such system, is a daunting task. Quantum states possess unique properties that can be exploited for developing [&#8230…

Researchers at the Medical University of Vienna, in collaboration with ETH Zurich, the Technical University of Munich and Medical Faculty Belgrade, have developed a wearable neurorobotic system that combines electrical neurostimulation with hand exoskeletons. In a clinical trial involving 14 patients with hand impairments caused by neurological injury, the technology supported finger mobility, ta…

A single transistor that behaves like a brain cell in the deep freeze could help unlock the next generation of quantum computers and space exploration systems.

Simultaneous voltage imaging of soma and dendrites in layer 2/3 cortical neurons in live mice reveals rich dynamics of spike back-propagation, with amplitude shaped by spiking history, dendrite location and behavioral state.

Clarkson University researchers have developed a new mathematical tool that could make artificial intelligence systems more accurate, controllable and useful across applications ranging from image editing to drug discovery. Clarkson University postdoctoral researcher Zander Blasingame and Chen Liu, professor of electrical and computer engineering, created a new family of numerical solvers called …