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Freethink’s weekly countdown of the biggest space news, featuring Starship’s second test flight, a new “dark mysteries” telescope, and more.

Freethink’s weekly countdown of the biggest space news, featuring a stranded space factory, Jeff Bezos’ new moon lander, and more.

HaptX gloves provide high-fidelity touch feedback of virtual spaces (and they look cool, too).

His grandfather, a member of Oppenheimer’s atomic bomb team, foresaw the potential of nuclear energy to power cities — not destroy them.

The bots started as windpipe cells, yet they helped nerve cells repair and grow.

Both nations made missteps, but China still has a chance to make up lost ground.

It has already been trialed in people and could give us a better way to analyze and stimulate the brain.

The initial study lays the groundwork for another larger, longer phase 2 trial.

The problem with today’s AI isn’t it thinking for itself; it’s the tech telling humans whatever we want to hear.

Most patients with cancer die from metastasis. Stopping it would be a major advance in cancer therapy.

The synthetic cartilage was made from cellulose fibers — the stuff found in wood — mixed with a goo called polyvinyl alcohol.

The DARPA-funded memory prosthesis helps the brain retain new information.

Ocean fertilization is extremely controversial, but if done correctly, it just might work.

BMW found it’s possible to remote-drive vehicles using available technology. All it takes is some software updates and a cellular network connection.

The futurist behind Minority Report explains 3 steps for predicting what comes next.

Futurist Ari Wallach asks, “how do we want to be remembered?”

WIRED founder Kevin Kelly explains why progress often looks like dystopia to the untrained eye.

New research shows psychedelics activate receptors inside brain cells that other compounds, like serotonin, cannot.

Here’s what it means for the field.

An interview with economist Tyler Cowen on why American progress has seemed to stall and how we can get it back on track.

Lost in a building or underwater? A new muon-based navigation system could be your guide.

It will be able to produce 22 million pounds of cultivated meat annually.

The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora is one of the reasons why Bryan Walsh sees supervolcanoes as the” single, biggest threat to the human race.”

A team of scientists hopes deep-earth lithium could sustain America’s vast demand for batteries. But extracting it won’t be easy.

Americans are more willing to put the greater good above their own interests today than in the 1950s.

The first human trial of base editing delivered strong results along with some safety concerns.

Analog could serve as “always-on” computing, while digital is turned on only when necessary.

More than 150 companies are developing flying cars. Here’s why they’re aren’t yet off the ground and darting across city skies.

Poachers drove the Northern White Rhino to extinction. One scientist and her “frozen zoo” are on a mission to bring them back.

Frontier, the ORNL supercomputer, used machine learning to perform 9.95 quintillion calculations per second.