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Why China is betting on big nuclear reactors

Meanwhile, the US has built just two reactors in that time—Unit 3 and Unit 4 at Plant Vogtle in Georgia. Smaller reactors are attracting a lot of excitement and investment, though. A... Read more »

Inside soccer’s data renaissance

Davis and his team of researchers employ advanced data analytics to reveal a range of (beg your pardon) game-changing findings that are shifting pro clubs’ decision-making. “His lab is the most influential... Read more »

Job titles of the future: Nature’s drug designer

Cernak imagines a world where “the patient was always meant to be a frog in the first place, from the beginning to the end.” Now an associate professor at the University of... Read more »

The Download: the “steroid olympics” and a safer Mythos

A couple of weeks ago, at a $50 million arena built in a casino parking lot in Las Vegas, I witnessed a libertarian thought experiment come to life. The inaugural Enhanced Games... Read more »

The “steroid olympics” were a circus—and a window into our culture

Like Kerley, sprinter Tristan Evelyn from Barbados competed without taking any drugs. She too won big in Vegas, besting her Enhanced peers in two events.SAEED RAHBARAN One thing the athletes wouldn’t talk... Read more »

The Download: whole-body rejuvenation drugs and five things to know about AI

Sinclair, a biologist at Harvard Medical School, plans to launch the tests in a $101 million competition organized by the XPrize Foundation. The winners will “restore” a person to an earlier apparent... Read more »

Learning to lead in a hybrid human-AI enterprise

Human employees have more time to focus on work “that requires a creative and imaginative mind and cross-functional collaboration, leveraging diverse ideas and thoughts to problem-solve,” says Jayaswal. The AI agent, meanwhile,... Read more »

David Sinclair plans to test whole-body rejuvenation drugs in the XPrize competition

Justice says a judging panel is now in the process of picking 10 finalists from 65 teams that have been exploring health foods, lifestyle interventions, digital trackers, and drug compounds.  Sinclair’s team,... Read more »

Five things you need to know about AI

4. AI for science is a very big deal. It’s early days yet, but the potential for AI to help make a genuine and important scientific discovery is greater than ever. Google... Read more »

The Download: how the World Cup ball will fly and OpenAI’s “super app”

3 Google has agreed to pay SpaceX $30 billion for AI computing powerThe $920 million-a-month contract runs through June 2029. (NYT $)+ Google will use about 110,000 Nvidia GPUs owned by SpaceX.... Read more »