New Hybrid Brain Map Reveals How Neurons Connect . Projects that map the billions of connections within entire brains have always had a tinge of grandiosity. Yet to connectomists, these projects aren’t just the key to cracking the brain’s ultimate myst...

How an AI Startup Designed a Drug Candidate in Just 46 Days. Discovering a new drug can take decades, billions of dollars, and untold man hours from some of the smartest people on the planet. Now a startup says it's taken a significant step towards speedi

Lab-Grown Minibrains Show Activity Similar to Babies' Brains. Neurons are a collective bunch. Although each neuron receives, processes, and passes on information individually, the electrical spikes only make sense when melded together in waves of oscillat

Build a Wall? A Wild Geoengineering Idea to Save the Glaciers. The seas are rising--currently at a rate of 3.3 millimeters per year, for a total of perhaps 240 millimeters since the industrial era began. Around a third of the rise so far has been due to t

Cellular Computers Get a Boost with CRISPR. Cancer's impenetrable secrets partly rely on its mysterious molecular history. As cells turn to the dark side, a whirlwind of DNA changes gradually accumulate. Like flipping multiple interlinked light ...

Silicon Is Reaching its Limits. Up Next: Carbon Nanotubes. Silicon has powered the information age, but it's reaching its physical limits. Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) hold a lot of promise as a replacement if we can get around some key obstacles--and the desi

Where Is Everyone? 4 Possible Explanations for the Fermi Paradox. As we go on with our everyday lives, it's very easy to forget about the sheer size of the universe. The Earth may seem like a mighty place, but it's practically a grain within a grain of sa

A Brief Tour Through the Wild West of Neural Interfaces. To most of us, zapping neurons with electricity to artificially "incept" memories, sensation, and movement still sounds crazy. But in some brain labs, that technology is beginning to feel old school

Nuke Mars? Here Are Some (Hopefully Better) Alternatives. Scientists and science fiction writers have been toying with the idea of terraforming Mars for the better part of a century. Turning the red planet green is seen as a crucial step towards humankind

You'll Take Your First Ride in a Flying Car Within a Decade. Not too long ago, the notion of flying cars was most comfortably categorized alongside fusion power--a classic tech vision that seemed forever stuck just over the horizon. Then around five years