This Startup Is Growing Sushi-Grade Salmon From Cells in a Lab . As the ills of factory farming become more pronounced, people are increasingly gravitating towards vegetarian or pescatarian diets. Besides producing a large percentage of our total greenhou

A CRISPR Baby Future? New Report Outlines Path to Human Germline Editing . What will it take for CRISPR babies to become medically acceptable? Earlier this month, an international commission of scientists released a highly anticipated report detailing the

This Microchip Has Its Own Built-In Cooling System . As we pack electronics into ever smaller packages, dealing with the heat they produce is becoming a growing challenge. Now researchers have developed a liquid cooling system integrated directly within .

Resilience Is the New Black: The Lessons of Covid-19 . For years it can seem as if the world is predictable, and then all at once, everything changes. Most of us have been blown away by the speed at which the coronavirus, Covid-19, has swept the world.

Walmart Is Piloting Drone Delivery in North Carolina . The coronavirus pandemic has forced us to quickly adapt to circumstances that were unimaginable a year ago. Companies are finding new ways to do business, and in the process we’re seeing an accelerati

Uber Wants to Go All-Electric by 2030. It Won't Be Easy . The coronavirus pandemic has been an all-around nightmare, but there are a few silver linings. One of these is a renewed focus on the environment. Emissions plummeted worldwide when countries went

An Army of Microscopic Robots Is Ready to Patrol Your Body . If I were to picture futuristic bots that could revolutionize both microrobotics and medicine, a Pop-Tart with four squiggly legs would not be on top of my list. I was so wrong. Last week, D

A New Breakthrough Just Brought City-Wide Quantum Communication Into Reach . A quantum internet promises a truly unhackable way to communicate, but most proposals so far only link two users at a time and require costly infrastructure. Now researchers have

Solarpunk Is Growing a Gorgeous New World in the Cracks of the Old One . What will the future look, smell, sound, taste, and feel like? And why on Earth—and other planets—are those questions relevant, especially given the havoc going on in the world, righ

Microsoft's New Deepfake Detector Puts Reality to the Test . The upcoming US presidential election seems set to be something of a mess—to put it lightly. Covid-19 will likely deter millions from voting in person, and mail-in voting isn’t shaping up to be