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Bryan Johnson says he’ll make humans immortal by 2039—but needs to fix ‘buggy’ issues like causing cancer
For most people, success means squeezing as much as possible into 80‑odd years: a big job with a flashy title…
AI lab GoogleDeepMind announced a major new partnership with the U.K. government Wednesday, pledging to accelerate breakthroughs in materials science…
While many businesses continue to seek AI’s killer app, biochemists have already found it. That application is protein folding. This…
Wisconsin archaeologists unearth a prehistoric lake ‘parking lot’ by mapping the location of 16 ancient canoes
Archaeologists have identified more than a dozen ancient canoes that Indigenous people apparently left behind in a sort of prehistoric…
The last monkey on the loose among several that escaped after a Mississippi highway crash has been found and captured
The last monkey on the loose among several that escaped after a Mississippi highway crash has been found and captured,…
Imagine standing on the edge of a misty mangrove at dawn, the water dark and still, knowing that beneath the…
Being mean to ChatGPT can boost its accuracy, but scientists warn that you may regret it in a new study exploring the consequences
Bossing around an AI underling may yield better results than being polite, but that doesn’t mean a ruder tone won’t…
The U.S. just bet $1 billion that AI supercomputers can turn most cancers from ‘death sentences’ to ‘manageable conditions’ within 8 years
The U.S. government is making a billion-dollar bet that AI can do what decades of “moonshots” have failed to: make…
Nobel Prize winner was hiking in Yellowstone with phone set to airplane mode. He’ll keep doing it for work-life balance
One of the medicine prize winners, meanwhile, was on vacation in Yellowstone National Park without cellular service. It would be…
Jane Goodall was my mentor and friend, inspiring my career change when I was a 23-year-old former NFL cheerleader
Anyone proposing to offer a master class on changing the world for the better, without becoming negative, cynical, angry or…












