- The gentle robot that can suck the leaves off your lettuce
- WhatsApp cofounder: “I am a sellout. I acknowledge that.”
- The US has picked the DNA centers that will sequence 1 million genomes
- Why Alibaba is betting big on AI chips and quantum computing
- Electric implant helps paralyzed man walk the length of a football field
- The world’s first autonomous tram just launched in Germany
- How to build a teleportation-assisted telescope
- Stretchy stick-on patch can take blood pressure readings from deep inside your body
- Oculus hopes its $399 headset will bring virtual reality to the masses
- Bill Gates has added a geothermal startup to his clean energy fund’s first bets
- There are more gig-workers than ever—and that means they’re making less money
- Instagram founders turn their backs on Facebook and walk away
- Tencent’s AI programs defeat Starcraft’s own AI
- This MIT spinout could finally clean up steel, one of the globe’s biggest climate polluters
- Why the US can’t afford to let politics derail its planned quantum strategy
- Japan is about to land two rovers on the surface of an asteroid
- I attended an Oculus conference in virtual reality, and all I got was eyestrain.
- Quantum research in the US was just handed a $250 million boost
- With Walmart’s veggie tracker, blockchain for supply chains will finally get real
- Nuclear startup to fold after failing to deliver reactor that ran on spent fuel
- Scientists just showed how to drive malaria mosquitoes to extinction
- The Best of the Physics arXiv (week ending September 22, 2018)
- IVF moonshot takes next step towards making human eggs from skin
- Alibaba’s “honey badger” AI chip company hopes to take on bigger beasts