Tag: science
Google DeepMind’s Groundbreaking AI for Protein Structure Can Now Model DNA
Google spent much of the past year hustling to build its Gemini chatbot to counter ChatGPT, pitching it as a multifunctional AI assistant that...
Boeing’s Starliner Is Finally Ready to Launch a NASA Crew Into...
âIt fits in with the general narrative of Boeing having lost its way,â says McDowell.Starliner, like Crew Dragon, is a capsule-shaped spacecraft like the...
The One Thing Holding Back Heat Pumps
So the demand is there, as is growing support from the federal and state governments. What’s lagging is the workforce—at least temporarily. And the...
An Old Abstract Field of Math Is Unlocking the Deep Complexity...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.In October, a Falcon Heavy rocket is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida,...
A Company Is Building a Giant Compressed-Air Battery in the Australian...
VanWalleghem said there is room to push costs down as the company gains experience from these first few plants. The storage systems have a...
No One Knows How Far Bird Flu Has Spread
In late March, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced it had detected cases of bird flu in dairy cattle. Initially discovered in dairy...
Want to Buy a Decommissioned Supercomputer? Here’s Your Chance
On Tuesday, the US General Services Administration began an auction for the decommissioned Cheyenne supercomputer, located in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The 5.34-petaflop supercomputer ranked as...
Get Ready for Monster Hurricanes This Summer
Three main factors converge to intensify hurricanes. The first is that as the world in general warms, so too do the oceans. Water...
China Has a Controversial Plan for Brain-Computer Interfaces
At a tech forum in Beijing last week, a Chinese company unveiled a “homegrown” brain-computer interface that allowed a monkey to seemingly control...
Millions of semi-trucks on U.S. roads still rely on fossil fuels....
GILROYOn a recent cloudless spring day on the outskirts of Gilroy, Christian Martorella accelerated an 18-wheeler past budding orchards. But instead of the...