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How do our bodies remember?

Yet in recent years, scientists have discovered that our muscles themselves have a memory for movement and exercise. When we move a muscle, the movement may appear to begin and end, but... Read more »

This test could reveal the health of your immune system

The team members used machine learning to find correlations between these measurements and health, allowing them to create an immune health score for each of the volunteers. They call it the immune... Read more »

The Download: mysteries of the immunome, and how to choose a climate tech pioneer

Made up of 1.8 trillion cells and trillions more proteins, metabolites, mRNA, and other biomolecules, every person’s immunome is different, and it is constantly changing. It’s shaped by everything we have ever... Read more »

How healthy am I? My immunome knows the score.  

But then the results got really interesting. In a few cases, the immune systems of  unhealthy and healthy people looked similar, with some people appearing near the “healthy” area of the chart... Read more »

3 takeaways about climate tech right now

We knew we wanted this list to reflect China’s emergence as a global energy superpower, and we ended up including two Chinese firms in key industries: renewables and batteries. In 2024, China... Read more »

The Download: carbon removal factories’ funding cuts, and AI toys

“OpenAI is building the future of AI on infrastructure it doesn’t own, power it doesn’t control, and capital it doesn’t have.” —Andrey Sidorenko, head of research at data firm Mostly AI, critiques... Read more »

The Trump administration may cut funding for two major direct-air capture plants

The list features a “latest status” column, which includes the word “terminate” next to the roughly $50 million award amounts for each project. Those line up with the initial tranche of Department... Read more »

The US is set to cancel funding for two major direct-air capture plants

The list notes that around $50 million in funding has been terminated for both projects, the initial tranche of Department of Energy (DOE) funding for each development. Each was set to receive... Read more »

AI toys are all the rage in China—and now they’re appearing on shelves in the US too

But Chinese AI toy companies have their sights set beyond the nation’s borders. BubblePal was launched in the US in December 2024 and is now also available in Canada and the UK.... Read more »

The Download: extracting lithium, and what we still don’t know about Sora

On a bright afternoon in August, the shore of Utah’s Great Salt Lake looks like something out of a science fiction film set in a scorching alien world. This otherworldly scene is... Read more »