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The forgotten civil engineer with a vision we could all learn from
John “Bud” Benson Wilbur MIT You have probably never heard of John “Bud” Benson Wilbur, but he is…
Useful quantum computers are edging closer with recent milestones
An exhibition model of IBM’s Q System One quantum computer Misha Friedman/Getty Images Despite all the hype around…
The Long History of the Future review: Why many inventions, from flying cars to smart robots, fail to launch
Flying cars have long been part of our imagined future – but that is where they may remain Shutterstock/Design Projects The…
What would Earth look like in 25 years? I asked the experts
Solar power station Yaorusheng/Getty Images Things are just a wee bit unstable right now – environmentally and politically…
Nuclear fusion experiment overcomes two key operating hurdles
Inside the DIII-D tokamak fusion reactor Rswilcox (CC BY-SA 4.0) A nuclear fusion reaction has overcome two key…
Why AIs that tackle complex maths could be the next big breakthrough
Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images For Bill Gates, artificial intelligence is the most important invention since the internet or the…
AI trained on millions of life stories can predict risk of early death
Data covering the entire population of Denmark was used to train an AI to predict people’s life outcomes…
How CRISPR therapy could cure everything from cancer to infertility
THE bouts of terrible pain began further back than Victoria Gray can remember. Her grandmother would try to…