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The Download: a reality check for geoengineering and the science of interoception

The Download: a reality check for geoengineering and the science of interoception

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. Hacking the atmosphere: geoengineering gets a reality check Solar geoengineering, the controversial idea that we could deliberately intervene in the...

Hacking the atmosphere: Geoengineering gets a reality check

Hacking the atmosphere: Geoengineering gets a reality check

Jim Franke pulls away the cover page of a presentation on the wraparound desk in his office, revealing an illustration of an odd-­looking aircraft with massive wings stretching out from a stubby fuselage. The uncrewed plane is soaring thousands of meters higher than commercial jets fly—so high you...

Une veste qui fabrique de l'eau potable à partir de l'air, comme dans Dune

Une veste qui fabrique de l'eau potable à partir de l'air, comme dans Dune

Des ingénieurs de l'université du Texas à Austin ont mis au point un vêtement qui tire de l'eau potable directement de l'air ambiant, sans réservoir à remplir ni source à proximité, simplement grâce au tissu dont il est fait. Le travail, mené par Guihua Yu et son équipe de la Cockrell School of...

The Download: “reprogramming” aging, and the hidden sense of interoception

The Download: “reprogramming” aging, and the hidden sense of interoception

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. Why “reprogramming” is the buzziest approach to reversing aging right now Earlier this week, Life Biosciences, a biotech company focused on reversing...

Why “reprogramming” is the buzziest approach to reversing aging right now

Why “reprogramming” is the buzziest approach to reversing aging right now

Earlier this week, Life Biosciences, a biotech company focused on reversing age-related diseases, announced that it had dosed its first volunteer. A person with glaucoma has had an experimental treatment injected straight into their eyeball. The idea is to try to treat the disease—which can cause...

Job titles of the future: Nature’s drug designer

Job titles of the future: Nature’s drug designer

In 2018, after nearly two decades working in Big Pharma, chemist Tim Cernak was ready to put his skills to a new use.  For Merck, he’d developed precision therapies for cancer, HIV, and diabetes that could target disease while minimizing harm to healthy cells. But as a lifelong nature lover,...

The “steroid olympics” were a circus—and a window into our culture

The “steroid olympics” were a circus—and a window into our culture

Testosterone. Methenolone. Nandrolone. Human growth hormone and EPO. Meldonium, modafinil, and mixed amphetamine salts. Clomiphene, anastrozole, levothyroxine, and liothyronine. Patches and capsules, creams and pills. A whole galaxy of steroids, metabolic modulators, and synthetic hormones coursing...