Features

• Categorized in Humans and technology

  10 Breakthrough Technologies 2022
• Categorized in Biotechnology

  How Pfizer made an effective anti-covid pill

  A covid pill could cut serious illnesses and help prevent the next pandemic. But it's expensive and in short supply.
• Categorized in Artificial intelligence

  This is the reason Demis Hassabis started DeepMind

  A year after it took biologists by surprise, AlphaFold has changed how researchers work and set DeepMind on a new course.
• Categorized in Computing

  The hacker-for-hire industry is now too big to fail

  This is a big moment of turbulence and change for the hacking business. But the demand is here to stay.
• Categorized in Biotechnology

  How tracking coronavirus variants will prepare us for the next global public health threat

  Genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 is helping us spot new variants and figure out how to respond. What else could it help us do?
• Categorized in Space

  Space is all yours—for a hefty price

  Commercial spaceflight is now officially a thing. But is it a transcendent opportunity for the masses, or just another way for rich people to show off?
• Categorized in Climate change

  A hole in the ground could be the future of fusion power

  MIT’s startup Commonwealth has a new powerful magnet that could finally make fusion power a reality.
• Categorized in Biotechnology

  The new malaria vaccine might not be perfect, but it will save countless lives

  It could lead to advances that fight other parasitic infections.
• Categorized in Tech policy

  Why the balance of power in tech is shifting toward workers

  A record number of tech worker unions formed in the US last year. They’re part of a global effort.
• Categorized in Climate change

  Carbon removal factory

  A large plant that captures carbon from the air could help create an industry the world needs to avoid dangerous levels of warming this century.