The Best of Singularity Hub
20+ most popular Singularity Hub articles, as voted by our community.
Chronicling technological progress in AI, robotics, health, & exponential tech. By @singularityu.
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The World's Biggest Cultured Meat Factory Is Under Construction in the US
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.»
The Argument for a 4-Day Workweek Gets Stronger After Latest Trial
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.
Why Fusion Ignition Is Being Hailed as a Major Breakthrough—A Nuclear Physicist Explains
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.
This Startup Is Producing the World’s First Carbon-Negative Concrete
The manufacture of cement, concrete’s key ingredient, accounts for a whopping eight percent of the world’s emissions.
A $3.5 Billion EV Battery Plant Will Convert Millions of Old Batteries Into New Parts
Redwood Materials takes in batteries at the end of their useful life, extracts key metals, and rebuilds them into cathode and anode products.
Singularity Hub on Artificial Intelligence
Scientists Discovered 'Mini-Computers' in Human Neurons—and That's Great News for AI
The neurons in our cortex, the outermost “crust” of our brain, seem to have uniquely evolved to sustain complex computations in their input cables.
This AI Supercomputer Has 13.5 Million Cores—and Was Built in Just Three Days
The machine, Andromeda, was assembled by chipmaker Cerebras and showed near-perfect scaling of large language AI models like OpenAI's GPT-3.
Singularity Hub on Biology
Animals That Can Do Math Understand More Language Than We Think
Animals that can do basic arithmetic show us that some really are capable of understanding the terms they use and the connections between them.
Singularity Hub on Biotech
These 2021 Biotech Breakthroughs Will Shape the Future of Health and Medicine
2021 was a big year for biotechnology, and the top three advances made will impact the field for years—if not decades—to come.
Five Ways Buildings of the Future Will Use Biotech to Become Living Things
Biology is capable of extraordinary feats of engineering, and the next frontier in building technology might be to make buildings part of nature.
Singularity Hub on Brain
800,000 Neurons in a Dish Learned to Play Pong in Just Five Minutes
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.
Electrical Zaps Woke Up Dormant Neurons to Help Paralyzed People Walk Again
By understanding how these neurons work, we could tap into their inner workings to develop even more sophisticated treatments for paralysis.
Singularity Hub on Future Of Cars
This Sleek Solar Car Goes 600 Miles on a Charge and Is Gearing Up for Production
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.
Singularity Hub on Longevity
What's Your Biological Age? A New 'Aging Clock' Has the Answer
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 Rapidly Augmenting Healthcare and Longevity
AI is about the eat healthcare, resulting in dramatic acceleration of longevity research and an amplification of the human healthspan.
Singularity Hub on Medicine
These Engineered Cells Are Super Soldiers That Hunt Down Cancers
A new therapy combines two big advances, CRISPR and CAR-T, to create personalized immune cells that seek and destroy specific cancers.
Thanks to DALL-E, the Race to Make Artificial Protein Drugs Is On
Designing proteins is just the first step. The next is translating these digital designs into actual proteins and seeing how they work in cells.
Singularity Hub on Microbiome
To Hack Your Motivation to Exercise, You May Just Need to Tweak Your Gut Microbiome
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.
Treating the Brain Through the Stomach: Tweaking the Gut Microbiome Slowed ALS in Mice
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.
Singularity Hub on Renewable Energy
Scientists Just Made Hydrogen Fuel With Nothing But Air and Solar Power
The team showed that the device could run efficiently for 12 consecutive days and produced hydrogen with 99 percent purity.
These Mini Wind Generators With No Spinning Blades Can Power Homes and Buildings
The generators sit on the edge of a building’s roof, taking advantage of the aerodynamic effect created by the wall below.
Singularity Hub on Solar
This Solar Car Just Toured the US, and Will Start Production Next Year
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.
Europe Is Getting Serious About Making Space-Based Solar Power a Reality
Space-based solar power involves building massive arrays of solar panels in orbit to collect sunlight then beaming the energy down to Earth.
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The Brain Has a Built-in System to Keep Unwanted Memories Out, Study Finds
The entire process happens below our consciousness, suppressing unwanted memories so that they never surface to awareness.
What Is the Metaverse? A Beginner's Guide to Tech's Latest Obsession
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.»
Scientists Engineer Super Bacteria That Are Alien to All Life on Earth
The engineered bacteria are now resistant to even the most aggressive viruses, with little chance of leaking their synthetic code into the wild.
Scientists Engineer Bacteria to Recycle Plastic Waste Into Valuable Chemicals
A new approach that combines biological and chemical processes could greatly simplify the process of recycling mixed plastics.
Estonia Is a 'Digital Republic'—What That Means and Why It May Be Everyone's Future
Estonia has digitized 99 percent of its public services and persistently achieves one of the highest ratings of trust in government in the EU.
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