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PTN Exclusive Interview With "Nano-Diamond Battery" One Of The Most Amazing And Transformative Energy Startups We Have Ever Seen.

By taking Radioisotopes, locking them into a sealed nanostructure, and transforming the radioactive decay into electrical energy, this amazing start-up is building an abundant power source for a very wide range of use cases.

Rolls-Royce To Build Nuclear Reactor For Future Moon Base By 2029

The goal now is to build an actual reactor that could one day provide a Moon base with the power needed for communications, life-support, and science experiments, among other applications.

College Students Built A Satellite Powered By AA Batteries

Since tracking began in late May 2022, the students' satellite has already lowered down to 470 kilometers-well below its fellow rocketmates aboard the Falcon 9, which remain around 500 kilometers high.

Generative AI: Imagining A Future Of AI-Dominated Creativity

Will the normalization of AI break down the artificial/human creative binary, reshaping consumer preferences and public attitudes surrounding the production and consumption of art?

An AI Learned To Play Atari 6,000 Times Faster By Reading The Instructions

Reinforcement learning has long struggled to make the leap from video games, where the computer has access to a complete model of the world, to the messy uncertainty of physical reality.

From Soil Bacteria.. A Clean Energy Enzyme Breakthrough Produces Electricity From Thin Air

Many of the world’s smallest organisms have some incredible means of survival. Some soil bacteria, for example, can gobble up hydrogen from the air and use it for fuel.

Protein May Turn The Tide On Brain Hemorrhage Survival Rates

With a horrific mortality and recovery rate, intracerebral hemorrhage is a devastating disease with poor long-term outcomes for those who do manage to survive it.

Vision Restored In Animal Models Thanks To A Refined CRISPR System

While it only affects about 1 in 5,000 people worldwide, retinitis pigmentosa is the most commonly inherited disease of the retina, so research seeking a cure across a variety of modalities is ongoing.

Our Future On A Reforested Planet: How The World Will Look If We Plant A Trillion Trees

By using automation, the reforesting effort can be scaled up to levels that have never been seen before in history.

GPT-4 Is A Big Upgrade. Millions Of People Will Use It.

With the exception of its new image-analysing skills, most abilities highlighted by OpenAI are improvements of the older algorithms.

Nuclear Power Could Be The Best And Most Effective Energy Solution We Have

The tool we need already exists and has been understood for decades, and it's nuclear power.

Five-Year Pancreatic Cancer Survival Rate Increases To 12%

American Cancer Society’s Cancer Facts & Figures 2023, released today, reports that the five-year survival rate for pancreatic cancer is now 12%, an increase of one percentage point from last year.