A Secret to Healthy Aging May Be the Bugs in Your Microbiome

The group of Japanese centenarians had seemingly magical health powers. Sure, with an average age [...]

Molecular Farming Means the Next Vaccine Could Be Edible and Grown in a Plant

It’s the dog days of summer. You bite down on a plump, chilled orange. Citrus [...]

The Global Work Crisis: Automation, the Case Against Jobs, and What to Do About It

The alarm bell rings. You open your eyes, come to your senses, and slide from [...]

This Is How Your Brain Responds to Social Influence

I’m a doormat when it comes to peer pressure. Jump off a 32-foot (10 meter) [...]

MIT Report: Robots Aren’t the Biggest Threat to the Future of Work—Policy Is

Fears of a robot-driven jobs apocalypse are a recurring theme in the media. But a new report from MIT has found [...]

As Algorithms Take Over More of the Economy, We Should Cede Control (Very) Carefully

Algorithms play an increasingly prominent part in our lives, governing everything from the news we [...]

Why We Need Mass Automation to Pandemic-Proof the Supply Chain

The scale of goods moving around the planet at any moment is staggering. Raw materials [...]

2021 Could Be a Banner Year for AI—If We Solve These 4 Problems

If AI has anything to say to 2020, it’s “you can’t touch this.” Last year [...]

The Deck Is Not Rigged: Poker and the Limits of AI

Tuomas Sandholm, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University, is not a poker player—or much of [...]

McDonald’s Is Making a Plant-Based Burger; You Can Try It in 2021

Fast-food chains have been doing what they can in recent years to health-ify their menus. [...]