Since 1971, steel demand has tripled, aluminum demand has increased by six, and cement demand has increased nearly seven times. All this is a growing climate concern, because making, using, and disposing... Read more »

Anne Luther, a digital heritage specialist and one of Digital Benin’s principal investigators, hopes the project will be a model for other communities that want to explore how technology can be used... Read more »

Ultimately, though, assessing our progress in building useful quantum computers comes down to one central factor: whether we can handle the noise. The delicate nature of quantum systems makes them extremely vulnerable... Read more »

3 AI-generated election disinformation will be everywhere  If recent elections are anything to go by, AI-generated election disinformation and deepfakes are going to be a huge problem as a record number of... Read more »

+ The worst technology failures of 2023. The Titan submersible, lab-grown chicken, and GM’s wayward Cruise robotaxis all made our annual run-down of the worst in tech. Read the full list. +... Read more »

Hagedorn and her collaborators have been able to cryopreserve larvae since 2018, but the process was finicky, and thawing them required sophisticated lasers to heat them at a rate of more than... Read more »

To be on track for net-zero goals, the cement industry would need to add carbon capture facilities to between 33 and 45 existing cement plants by 2030, according to RMI. The first... Read more »

When you’re starving, hunger is like a demon. It awakens the most ancient and primitive parts of the brain, then commandeers other neural machinery to do its bidding until it gets what... Read more »

“Sure, we managed to have the brain say ‘Go eat,’” he says. “But that’s not really an explanation. How does that actually work?”  To answer that question, Lowell has teamed up with... Read more »