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Give research into solar geoengineering a chance By at least one measure, US President Joe Biden’s online climate summit last month was a success: several governments, including that of the United States, made fresh pledges to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. Combined with earlier announcements fro...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/OpenAI_Logo.svg/2000px-OpenAI_Logo.svg.png OpenAI's diffusion models beat GANs at what they do best Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are a class of deep learning models that learn to produce new (or pseudo-real) data. Their advent in 2...

This Nuclear Reactor Just Made Fusion Viable by 2030. Seriously. TAE Technologies, the world’s largest private fusion company, has announced it will have a commercially viable nuclear fusion power plant by 2030, which puts it years—or even decades—ahead of other fusion technology companies. The Cal...

DMV probing whether Tesla violates state regulations with self-driving claims Tesla is “under review” by the California Department of Motor Vehicles to determine whether the electric car maker misleads customers by advertising its “full self-driving capability” option, the agency told The Times. A ...

World's first raw earth material 3D-printed house is ready for residents TECLA represents a viable model and key example of low-carbon housing construction that attains close to a net zero footprint as a result of its reliance on 100 percent locally-obtained raw earth materials and the elimination ...

Move over CRISPR, the retrons are coming While the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system has become the poster child for innovation in synthetic biology, it has some major limitations. CRISPR-Cas9 can be programmed to find and cut specific pieces of DNA, but editing the DNA to create desired mutations re...

Advanced Computer Model Enables Improvements to “Bionic Eye” Technology Researchers at Keck School of Medicine of USC develop signals that could bring color vision and improved clarity to prosthesis for the blind. There are millions of people who face the loss of their eyesight from degenerative ey...