GE Will 3D Print the Bases of Wind Turbines Taller Than Seattle's Space Needle . If you’ve seen a wind farm in action, you know modern wind turbines are pretty awe-inspiring—hulking giants all in a row, massive blades turning in the barest breeze. In the

SpaceX Wants to Build Floating Spaceports for Daily Starship Launches . The coronavirus pandemic stopped a lot of things, but it hasn’t done much to slow down SpaceX and Elon Musk. The company sent two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station la

OpenAI’s New Text Generator Writes Even More Like a Human . In early 2019 OpenAI, a startup co-founded by Elon Musk devoted to ensuring artificial general intelligence is safe for humanity, announced it had created a neural network for natural language pr

Amazingly Detailed Map Reveals How the Brain Changes With Aging . If a brain is our Earth, then we, as inhabitants, are individual brain cells. Just as our human relationships and connections can nudge, push, or dramatically shift societal values and co

China Takes Another Step Towards Uncrackable Quantum Communication . Uncrackable quantum communication is a step closer after Chinese researchers demonstrated a practical way to share security keys over 1,120 kilometers using entangled photons sent and re

Animals That Can Do Math Understand More Language Than We Think . It is often thought that humans are different from other animals in some fundamental way that makes us unique, or even more advanced than other species. These claims of human superiority ar

MIT's Tiny New Brain Chip Aims for AI in Your Pocket . The human brain operates on roughly 20 watts of power (a third of a 60-watt light bulb) in a space the size of, well, a human head. The biggest machine learning algorithms use closer to a nuclear powe

MIT Builds a Tiny Brain Chip With Tens of Thousands of Artificial Synapses . The human brain operates on roughly 20 watts of power (a third of a 60-watt light bulb) in a space the size of, well, a human head. The biggest machine learning algorithms use cl

MIT Aims to Put AI in Your Pocket With Confetti-Sized Brain Chip . The human brain operates on roughly 20 watts of power (a third of a 60-watt light bulb) in a space the size of, well, a human head. The biggest machine learning algorithms use closer to a

Road Trip? New Record-Crushing Battery Lasts 1.2 Million Miles in Electric Cars . Electric cars had their biggest year ever in 2019. As of the end of the year, 2.5 percent of the world’s total cars were electric. It’s a small percentage, but represents si