Sara Ord has one of the most futuristic job titles around—director of species restoration at Colossal Biosciences, the world’s first “de-extinction” company. Her team is figuring...
The nation is entering markets already crowded with international rivals, many of which have been investing billions for decades. China alone has spent more than $50...
If they can make a dunnart cell with enough thylacine DNA, the next step is to use cloning to try to create an embryo—and, eventually, an...
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Elon Musk’s demands for loyalty triggered an exodus of Twitter workersHundreds of...
However, Meta and other companies working on large language models, including Google, have failed to take it seriously. Galactica is a large language model for science,...
Central to these negotiations is a question: who is responsible for climate change? The issue is complicated, but a few pieces of data about current and...
It’s also harder to eat well and get enough exercise when you’re balancing a full-time job with parenting. As I was adoringly brushing my four-year-old’s hair...
She’s not alone in that assessment. One former Twitter engineer, granted anonymity to speak freely, who was fired by Musk as part of a crackdown on...
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A new tick-borne disease...
Ambri is a Boston-area startup that’s building molten-salt batteries from calcium and antimony. The company recently announced a demonstration project deploying energy storage for Microsoft data...