23 oct. 20192 min de lectureNASA’s Biggest Telescope Yet, Facebook’s 2020 Plan, and More NewsNASA is searching for water on new planets while Facebook is searching for likes from critics, but first, today’s cartoon: What happens...
22 oct. 20192 min de lectureScientists Are Literally Spinning Up Lab-Grown MeatThe solvent, a mixture of ethanol and water, keeps the fibers from falling apart as they fling out of the supercharged cotton candy...
22 oct. 20192 min de lectureScientists Are Literally Spinning Up Lab-Grown MeatThe solvent, a mixture of ethanol and water, keeps the fibers from falling apart as they fling out of the supercharged cotton candy...
22 oct. 20192 min de lectureNASA’s Biggest Telescope Ever Prepares for a 2021 LaunchIf you were a rogue bee buzzing on the moon, this heat-detecting honeycomb could find you. But rest easy, tiny friend: The $10 billion...
22 oct. 20192 min de lectureNASA’s Biggest Telescope Ever Prepares for a 2021 LaunchIf you were a rogue bee buzzing on the moon, this heat-detecting honeycomb could find you. But rest easy, tiny friend: The $10 billion...
22 oct. 20192 min de lectureNew DNA Editing for Diseases, Dining Surveillance, and MoreGenes are gettin’ cleaned and your bloomin’ onion might come with a side of Big Brother, but first: Our daily cartoon shows off a new way...
22 oct. 20192 min de lectureNew DNA Editing for Diseases, Dining Surveillance, and MoreGenes are gettin’ cleaned and your bloomin’ onion might come with a side of Big Brother, but first: Our daily cartoon shows off a new way...
21 oct. 20193 min de lectureA New Crispr Technique Could Fix Almost All Genetic DiseasesAndrew Anzalone was restless. It was late fall, 2017. The year was winding down, and so was his MD/PhD program at Columbia. Trying to...
21 oct. 20193 min de lectureA New Crispr Technique Could Fix Almost All Genetic DiseasesAndrew Anzalone was restless. It was late fall, 2017. The year was winding down, and so was his MD/PhD program at Columbia. Trying to...
21 oct. 20193 min de lectureAndrew Yang Wants a Thorium Reactor by 2027. Good Luck, BuddyPresidential candidates are in the business of making big promises, and few of the Democratic contenders for the 2020 nomination have...
21 oct. 20193 min de lectureAndrew Yang Wants a Thorium Reactor by 2027. Good Luck, BuddyPresidential candidates are in the business of making big promises, and few of the Democratic contenders for the 2020 nomination have...
21 oct. 20192 min de lectureThe Bizarre Aye-Aye Isn’t Giving Us the Finger After AllIf it seems too good to be true, the old cliché goes, it probably is. And it doesn’t get much gooder than the bizarre hand of the...
21 oct. 20192 min de lectureThe Bizarre Aye-Aye Isn’t Giving Us the Finger After AllIf it seems too good to be true, the old cliché goes, it probably is. And it doesn’t get much gooder than the bizarre hand of the...
20 oct. 20193 min de lectureComputers Are Learning to Read—But They’re *Still* Not So SmartThe Mad-Libs-esque pretraining task that BERT uses — called masked-language modeling — isn’t new. In fact, it’s been used as a tool for...
20 oct. 20193 min de lectureComputers Are Learning to Read—But They’re *Still* Not So SmartThe Mad-Libs-esque pretraining task that BERT uses — called masked-language modeling — isn’t new. In fact, it’s been used as a tool for...
19 oct. 20193 min de lectureAll Hail the Blob, the Smart Slime Mold Confounding ScienceIt’s official: Humans are canceled. If we’re not intent on slowly destroying the planet, then we’re getting busy being downright nasty to...
19 oct. 20193 min de lectureAll Hail the Blob, the Smart Slime Mold Confounding ScienceIt’s official: Humans are canceled. If we’re not intent on slowly destroying the planet, then we’re getting busy being downright nasty to...
18 oct. 20192 min de lectureJuul Pulls Pods, Roll-Royce Builds a Flying Lab, and More NewsToday’s news will make youths mad and commuters glad. But first, our daily cartoon: Just hear the lab rat out. Here’s the news you need...
18 oct. 20192 min de lectureJuul Pulls Pods, Roll-Royce Builds a Flying Lab, and More NewsToday’s news will make youths mad and commuters glad. But first, our daily cartoon: Just hear the lab rat out. Here’s the news you need...
18 oct. 20192 min de lectureCould an Astronaut Lost in Space Use Gravity to Get Around?Everything was great, but it just wasn’t a very exciting problem. The change in momentum of the spaceship was very small as it moved past...
