Features

• Categorized in Culture

  10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024

  Every year, we look for promising technologies poised to have a real impact on the world. Here are the advances that we think matter most right now.
• Categorized in Artificial intelligence

  These six questions will dictate the future of generative AI

  Generative AI took the world by storm in 2023. Its future—and ours—will be shaped by what we do next.
• Categorized in Biotechnology and health

  We’ve never understood how hunger works. That might be about to change.

  Scientists have spent decades trying to unravel the intricate mysteries of the human appetite. Are they on the verge of finally determining how this basic drive functions?
• Categorized in Computing

  Quantum computing is taking on its biggest challenge: noise

  For a while researchers thought they’d have to make do with noisy, error-prone systems, at least in the near term. That’s starting to change.
• Categorized in Climate change and energy

  How electricity could help tackle a surprising climate villain

  Sublime Systems is trying to drive down the carbon footprint of cement production.