Meet the divers trying to figure out how deep humans can go

Figuring out how the human body can withstand underwater pressure has been a problem for over a century, but a ragtag band of divers is experimenting with hydrogen to find out.

Meet the people who use Notion to plan their whole lives

The workplace tool’s appeal extends far beyond organizing work projects. Many users find it’s just as useful for managing their free time.

Babies spend most of their time asleep. New technologies are beginning to reveal why

Monitoring the brains of newborn babies while they sleep gives us insight into how they learn.

Babies spend most of their time asleep. New technologies are beginning to reveal why.

Monitoring the brains of newborn babies while they sleep gives us insight into how they learn.

DeepMind says it will release the structure of every protein known to science

The company has already used its protein-folding AI, AlphaFold, to generate structures for the human proteome, as well as yeast, fruit flies, mice, and more.

We’re not going back to normal

Social distancing is here to stay for much more than a few weeks. It will upend our way of life, in some ways forever.

A quantum experiment suggests there’s no such thing as objective reality

Physicists have long suspected that quantum mechanics allows two observers to experience different, conflicting realities. Now they’ve performed the first experiment that proves it.

China’s CRISPR twins might have had their brains inadvertently enhanced

New research suggests that a controversial gene-editing experiment to make children resistant to HIV may also have enhanced their ability to learn and form memories.

Physicists create world’s first time crystal

Time crystals were first predicted in 2012. Now researchers have created time crystals for the first time and say they could one day be used as quantum memories.

This is how many people we’d have to send to Proxima Centauri to make sure someone actually arrives

Since it would take at least 6,300 years to reach the closest star to our sun, enough men and women to produce many genetically healthy generations would need to make the trip.

Robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks debunks AI hype seven ways

Mistaken extrapolations, limited imagination, and other common mistakes that distract us from thinking more productively about the future.

The world’s first elevator cable-free elevator zooms horizontally and vertically using maglev tech

It could help change the way that buildings are designed, as well as getting you to your floor faster.

The Entrepreneur with the $100 Million Plan to Link Brains to Computers

Silicon Valley’s race to develop a brain-computer interface

One man’s quest to hack his own genes

When Brian Hanley set out to test a gene therapy, he started with himself.

By data-mining a vast collection of novels, researchers have identified the six basic plots that all stories follow

Scientists at the Computational Story Laboratory have analyzed novels to identify the building blocks of all stories.

Supercharged Photosynthesis

Advanced genetic tools could help boost crop yields and feed billions more people.