Scientists Just Found New Antibiotic Molecules—Right In the Human Microbiome . The human microbiome is the dark matter of biology: we know it’s there and critically balances health from disease. We can broadly examine microbe members with advanced DNA seq

Scientists Found New Antibiotic Molecules—Right In the Human Microbiome . The human microbiome is the dark matter of biology: we know it’s there and critically balances health from disease. We can broadly examine microbe members with advanced DNA sequenci

Tech Spread Misinformation in 70 Countries This Year. How Can We Make 2020 Better? . Following discussions about the societal influence of a technology like the internet feels much like watching a tennis match. One side serves with ‘the internet is the gr

How Old is Your Brain? This AI Can Tell You . Delaying “brain age” may sound like the latest quick-fix gimmick on a late-night infomercial, but the science underlying the concept is very real. Rather than reflecting the average functional state of...

Russia Could Take the Lead on Human Gene Editing . There’s broad consensus that genetically modifying humans isn’t a good idea, at least not anytime in the near future. But it seems Russia has less qualms about the idea, which could leave it to determi...

The End of the Chinese Miracle Is in Sight. What’s Next? . Governments around the world are rushing to keep up with emerging technologies. No one wants to be left behind as more industries and facets of life are impacted by the transition from analogue to

3D Printing Everything: Ultra-Cheap, Zero-Waste Products Are Coming . This blog is an excerpt from my next book The Future is Faster Than You Think, co-authored with Steven Kotler, to be released January 28th, 2020. 3D printing is about to transform man

Deep Learning Networks Can't Generalize—But They're Learning from the Brain . “Bias” in AI is often treated as a dirty word. But to Dr. Andreas Tolias at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, bias may also be the solution to smarter, more huma

DNA Nanomachines Are Opening Medicine to the World of Physics . When I imagine the inner workings of a robot, I think hard, cold mechanics running on physics: shafts, wheels, gears. Human bodies, in contrast, are more of a contained molecular soup operati

How Facebook’s Libra Could Kick Off A Digital Currency War . Facebook’s plans to launch a digital currency, Libra, has sent shockwaves through the international finance world and may have sounded the starting gun on a digital currency race. The contestant