What Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory of the Cosmos Reveals About the Origins of Time and Life
The late physicist Stephen Hawking first asked me to work with him to develop “a new quantum theory of the Big Bang”…
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AI Designed This Statue in the Style of Michelangelo and Other Famous Sculptors
There’s been a lot of speculation about the role AI will play in art and creativity. Some think it will give humans a…
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This Dubai Mosque Will Be One of the World’s Biggest and Most Complex 3D-Printed Buildings
In 2018, just as 3D printing was starting to take off as a construction method, Dubai set an ambitious goal: the city…
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A Mysterious Surge of Brain Activity During Death Probes the Edges of Consciousness
We often think of death as an on-off switch. One minute you’re there, and the next it’s lights out. Not so. During heart…
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Scientists Nearly Doubled Yeast Cells’ Longevity With a Clever Genetic Hack
While human aging is the result of many interconnected processes, one of the most fundamental is the natural…
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NASA Visualization Shows Supermassive Black Holes That Could Swallow Our Solar System Whole
Hints of black holes, some of the universe’s most extreme objects, first appeared in Einstein’s equations of…
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This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through May 6)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Geoffrey Hinton Tells Us Why He’s Now Scared of the Tech He Helped Build Will Douglas Heaven |…
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A Note From Ray Kurzweil on the Recent Call to Pause Work on AI More Powerful Than GPT-4
Editor’s Note: The following is a brief letter from Ray Kurzweil, cofounder and member of the board at Singularity…
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