Jesper Pedersen
Is This Virtual Worm the First Sign of the Singularity?
A far-flung team is trying to build the first digital lifeform to work out the basic principles of the brain.
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Jesper Pedersen
A far-flung team is trying to build the first digital lifeform to work out the basic principles of the brain.
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... And it was made by, yep, a 3D printer.
NASA
Another victory for Opportunity, the spunky little rover driving on Mars
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Eager to be the first to the top, these brave adventurers briefly turned to ... Adderall.
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Maps have always been distorted. Now that distortion is Google's selling point.
Nikolas Schmid-Pfähler and Carolin Liebl
Two sensor-laden machines explore love in the time of automata.
Alexis Madrigal
From 2000 units sold at $10,000 a pop to a billion units sold at $100 a piece.
Ben Barry
Inside the company's Analog Research Laboratory, where designer Ben Barry is "packaging" Facebook's corporate persona
Alexis Madrigal
As the CEO steps down, he leaves the Intel machine poised to take on the swarming ecosystem of competitors who make smartphone chips.
Jon Mooallem
An excerpt from Jon Mooallem's new book, Wild Ones
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Explorers have been searching on foot for Honduras's mythical city for generations. Now, they seem to have found it from a tiny Cessna airplane, aided by million-dollar technology.
Tristan Lowe
Scientists use CT scanning technologies to better understand the insect world.
Reuters
No matter how much we wish it were otherwise, the economics favor burning fossil fuels.
NASA
Chris Hadfield's return from the International Space Station marks a new era for the final frontier.
On the menu? One googol of potential drink combinations.
Reuters
Like whale oil in the 1860s, oil today has become uncompetitive -- even at low prices -- and that will only become truer with time.
PBS Off Book explains the long history of info visualization.
The Guardian
For the first time in human history, atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide have crossed the 400 parts per million threshold.
Titian/Rebecca J. Rosen
For those whose privately shared photos have made their way to the web, an argument of implied confidentiality may be a good bet.
James Fallows on Jerry Brown's second chance. Plus: the mystery of the second skeleton, how gay couples are getting marriage right, the end of the retail salesperson, and more.
