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The Download: storing nuclear waste and orchestrating agents

The Download: storing nuclear waste and orchestrating agents

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. It’s time to make a plan for nuclear waste Today, nuclear energy enjoys rare support across the political spectrum. Public approval has spiked, and...

AI at MIT

AI at MIT

At MIT, AI has become so pervasive that you can almost find your way into it without meaning to. Take Sili Deng, an associate professor of mechanical engineering. Deng says she still doesn’t know whether she’d have gone all in on artificial intelligence had it not been for the covid pandemic....

Artificial scientists

Artificial scientists

AI companies frequently invoke the possibility of AI-enabled scientific discovery as a justification for their existence: If the technology eventually cures cancer and solves climate change, then all the carbon emissions and slop videos will have been well worth it.  Already, LLMs can assist...

The noise we make is hurting animals. Can we learn to shut up?

The noise we make is hurting animals. Can we learn to shut up?

When the covid-19 pandemic started, Jennifer Phillips thought about the songs of the sparrows. They were easier to hear, because the world had suddenly become quieter. Car traffic plummeted as people sheltered at home and shifted to remote work. Air travel collapsed. Cities—normally filled with the...

The problem with thinking you’re part Neanderthal

The problem with thinking you’re part Neanderthal

You’ve probably heard some version of this idea before: that many of us have an “inner Neanderthal.” That is to say, around 45,000 years ago, when Homo sapiens first arrived in Europe, they met members of a cousin species—the broad-browed, heavier-set Neanderthals—and, well, one thing led to...

The Download: how humans make decisions, and Moderna’s “vaccine” word games

The Download: how humans make decisions, and Moderna’s “vaccine” word games

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. You have no choice in reading this article—maybe How do humans make decisions? The question has been on Uri Maoz’s mind since he read an article in...

What’s in a name? Moderna’s “vaccine” vs. “therapy” dilemma

What’s in a name? Moderna’s “vaccine” vs. “therapy” dilemma

Is it the Department of Defense or the Department of War? The Gulf of Mexico or the Gulf of America? A vaccine—or an “individualized neoantigen treatment”? That’s the Trump-era vocabulary paradox facing Moderna, the covid-19 shot maker whose plans for next-generation mRNA vaccines against flus and...

« Le registre national des cancers constitue un fourre-tout hétérogène de données sensibles, couvrant de multiples facettes de la vie privée »

« Le registre national des cancers constitue un fourre-tout hétérogène de données sensibles, couvrant de multiples facettes de la vie privée »

Dans une tribune au « Monde », trois professionnels de la santé publique alertent sur la dimension liberticide du registre national des cancers, créé pour mieux cerner les causes de la maladie mais qui, selon eux, prévoit une collecte de données personnelles inquiétante et inutilement exhaustive.

Is fake grass a bad idea? The AstroTurf wars are far from over.

Is fake grass a bad idea? The AstroTurf wars are far from over.

A rare warm spell in January melted enough snow to uncover Cornell University’s newest athletic field, built for field hockey. Months before, it was a meadow teeming with birds and bugs; now it’s more than an acre of synthetic turf roughly the color of the felt on a pool table, almost digital in...