Transgenic Silkworms Spin Spider Silk 6x Tougher Than Kevlar
The other day I dove headfirst into a spiderweb while half-asleep inside my camper van. Screams aside, the logical…
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You’ll Soon Be Able to Buy Genetically Engineered Glow-in-the-Dark Petunias
Biotechnology is often advertised as the solution to world hunger or a way to cure disease. But new glow-in-the-dark…
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This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through September 23)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OpenAI’s Dall-E 3 Is an Art Generator Powered by ChatGPT Will Knight | Wired “Dall-E 3…
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The Limits of Our Personal Experience and the Value of Statistics
It’s tempting to believe that we can simply rely on personal experience to develop our understanding of the world. But…
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DeepMind AI Hunts Down the DNA Mutations Behind Genetic Disease
Proteins are like Spider-Man in the multiverse. The underlying story is the same: each building block of a protein is…
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Agility’s New Factory Can Crank Out 10,000 Humanoid Robots a Year
Simple robots have long been a manufacturing staple, but more advanced robots—think Boston Dynamics’ Atlas—have mostly…
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Party Drug MDMA Inches Closer to Breakthrough Approval for PTSD
MDMA doesn’t have the best reputation. Known as “ecstasy” or “molly,” the drug is synonymous with rave culture:…
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Flowering Plants Survived the Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid—and May Outlive Us
If you looked up 66 million years ago you might have seen, for a split second, a bright light as a mountain-sized…
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