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With a production capacity of 10,000 metric tons, Believer says the facility will be the biggest of its type in the world.

«Cells are extracted from an animal’s tissue (in a process that doesn’t harm the animal at all) and mixed with a cocktail of nutrients, oxygen, and moisture. Inside large bioreactors, the mixture is kept at the same temperature cells would be at in an animal’s body. The cells divide, multiply, and mature, with any waste products being removed to keep the environment pure.»

While these results aren't surprising, it’s worth noting that the culture around work is different in the US than in the UK or Australia.

To assess the success of a fusion experiment, physicists look at the ratio between the energy released from the process of fusion and the amount of energy within the lasers.

The manufacture of cement, concrete’s key ingredient, accounts for a whopping eight percent of the world’s emissions.

Redwood Materials takes in batteries at the end of their useful life, extracts key metals, and rebuilds them into cathode and anode products.

The neurons in our cortex, the outermost “crust” of our brain, seem to have uniquely evolved to sustain complex computations in their input cables.

The machine, Andromeda, was assembled by chipmaker Cerebras and showed near-perfect scaling of large language AI models like OpenAI's GPT-3.

Animals that can do basic arithmetic show us that some really are capable of understanding the terms they use and the connections between them.

2021 was a big year for biotechnology, and the top three advances made will impact the field for years—if not decades—to come.

Biology is capable of extraordinary feats of engineering, and the next frontier in building technology might be to make buildings part of nature.

The study is a proof of concept that neurons in a dish can be a sophisticated learning machine and adapt to a goal in a virtual environment.

By understanding how these neurons work, we could tap into their inner workings to develop even more sophisticated treatments for paralysis.

When it’s fully charged the car has a range of more than 600 miles, and in optimal sun conditions can power itself for up to 40 miles a day.

The clock used a simple statistical model, which looked at a certain type of epigenetic modification at just two target sites on DNA.

AI is about the eat healthcare, resulting in dramatic acceleration of longevity research and an amplification of the human healthspan.

A new therapy combines two big advances, CRISPR and CAR-T, to create personalized immune cells that seek and destroy specific cancers.

Designing proteins is just the first step. The next is translating these digital designs into actual proteins and seeing how they work in cells.

A chemical produced by the microbiome sends a signal from the gut to the brain, triggering a dopamine release into the brain’s motivation center.

For devastating disorders in which the brain or its nerve connections gradually disintegrate, maybe it’s time to look south of the neck—towards the gut.

The team showed that the device could run efficiently for 12 consecutive days and produced hydrogen with 99 percent purity.

The generators sit on the edge of a building’s roof, taking advantage of the aerodynamic effect created by the wall below.

The car’s lithium iron phosphate battery has a 190-mile range, with 465 solar half-cells integrated on its roof, doors, fenders, and hood.

Space-based solar power involves building massive arrays of solar panels in orbit to collect sunlight then beaming the energy down to Earth.

The entire process happens below our consciousness, suppressing unwanted memories so that they never surface to awareness.

There's been an explosion of noise and hype about the metaverse. If you're new to the concept, this introduction is for you.

«It’s also a good reminder that anytime you see the media claim that something is “the first” virtual-based whatever, that’s very likely not true.»

The engineered bacteria are now resistant to even the most aggressive viruses, with little chance of leaking their synthetic code into the wild.

A new approach that combines biological and chemical processes could greatly simplify the process of recycling mixed plastics.

Estonia has digitized 99 percent of its public services and persistently achieves one of the highest ratings of trust in government in the EU.