1st January 2025 2024 highlights in science and technology With 2024 now behind us, we reflect on another remarkable year of progress in science and technology. These were our 20 most viewed blogs of 2024. Here's to an even brighter future in 2025!
29th June 2024 The Singularity is Nearer Almost 20 years after his famous book, The Singularity is Near – in which he predicted a technological singularity by 2045 – world-renowned futurist and inventor Ray Kurzweil launched a sequel: The Singularity is Nearer. We gave away three copies to our readers.
7th February 2024 New video of Atlas bipedal robot In February, Boston Dynamics released a new video of the Atlas bipedal robot, showing its latest abilities.
9th February 2024 New record for nuclear fusion power: 69 MJ Researchers successfully generated 69 megajoules (MJ) of energy using the Joint European Torus (JET) – the largest amount ever in a fusion experiment and a new world record.
13th March 2024 Humanoid robot can do chores and hold conversations In March, AI startup company Figure unveiled the latest upgrades to its Figure 01 humanoid robot.
24th June 2024 One of world's rarest cats is no longer endangered The conservation status of the Iberian lynx, until recently the world's rarest cat, was upgraded from endangered to vulnerable, after a surge in their numbers.
16th January 2024 World's first trillionaire predicted within a decade The world's first trillionaire was predicted by UK charity Oxfam to happen within the next 10 years. Meanwhile, the global eradication of poverty is now expected to take until the mid-23rd century to achieve.
4th August 2024 Warp drive failure simulated by researchers In August, scientists published research on the simulation of gravitational waves from a failing warp drive.
17th February 2024 OpenAI launches text-to-video generator In February, the Internet was abuzz with talk about Sora, a new AI model bringing text-to-video generation to a whole new level.
5th June 2024 Largest ever solar farm opens in China A gigantic new solar farm, the first to reach 5 gigawatts (GW), was connected to the grid in Xinjiang, China. This desert megaproject covers a land area of 200,000 acres.
29th October 2024 New humanoid robot impresses with lifelike gait SE01, revealed by Chinese company EngineAI, features a more natural-looking walk than previous humanoid robots.
31st August 2024 Newly discovered protein stops DNA damage Researchers announced the discovery of a protein that has the never-before-seen ability to halt DNA damage. This finding could provide the foundation for developing everything from vaccines against cancer, to crops that can withstand climate change.
9th January 2024 First functional semiconductor made from graphene The first functional semiconductor made from graphene was created at the Georgia Institute of Technology. This could enable smaller and faster electronic devices and may have applications for quantum computing.
1st April 2024 Key aspect of aging reversed in mice In a study published by Stanford University, old mice developed more youthful immune systems after treatment with an antibody targeting abnormal stem cells.
9th July 2024 A new super-Earth with potential for life The exoplanet LHS 1140 b was found to be a top candidate for habitability, thanks to new and improved data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
3rd February 2024 AI to disrupt creative jobs in the near future A report by CVL Economics predicted widespread disruption in the creative and entertainment industries due to generative AI over the coming three years.
23rd June 2024 Cause of life expectancy gender gap revealed In June, the gap in life expectancy between male and female organisms was scientifically explained for the first time.
10th June 2024 Futuristic battery concepts revealed Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, in partnership with Energy Vault, unveiled a series of energy storage concepts, including structures that could reach up to a kilometre in height.
22nd March 2024 New AI chips feature 208 billion transistors In March, chip giant NVIDIA launched its Blackwell family of processors, providing yet another leap in scale and speed for AI.
24th January 2024 30 TB hard drive launched by Seagate The capacity of data storage reached another new level with Seagate launching the Mozaic 3+, offering areal densities of 3 TB per platter, with 10 platters allowing a total of 30 TB per drive. This came just three years after the 20 TB milestone.
5th March 2024 AI appears to show hints of self-awareness Our most-viewed blog of 2024 was the news of AI startup Anthropic's launch of Claude 3 – a new family of large language models. The most powerful of these was shown to match or outperform OpenAI's GPT-4 and seemed to hint at self-awareness during tests.
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