Tofu-like probes capture the activity of individual neurons in tadpole embryos as they grow. Early brain development is a biological black box. While scientists have devised multiple ways to record electrical signals in adult brains, these techniques don’t work for embryos. A team at Harvard has

Honda’s been quietly working on a side hustle. The private space race has been dominated by SpaceX for years. But Japanese carmaker Honda may be about to throw its hat in the ring after demonstrating a reusable rocket. Space rockets might seem like a strange side hustle for a company better known

New estimates suggest it might be 20 times easier to crack cryptography with quantum computers than we thought—but don’t panic. Will quantum computers crack cryptographic codes and cause a global security disaster? You might certainly get that impression from a lot of news coverage, the latest of

It’s a crucial step toward the dream of printable organs on demand. Bioprinting holds the promise of engineering organs on demand. Now, researchers have solved one of the major bottlenecks—how to create the fine networks of blood vessels needed to keep organs alive. Thanks to rapid advances in

Artificial Intelligence Meta Is Creating a New AI Lab to Pursue ‘Superintelligence’Cade Metz and Mike Isaac | The New York Times “Meta is preparing to unveil a new artificial intelligence research lab dedicated to pursuing ‘superintelligence,’ a hypothetical AI system that exceeds the powers of the