A couple of weeks ago, I covered the hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship. Three people sadly died, but the outbreak ...

How a new extraction process could unlock the world’s lithium A new method for extracting lithium could cut costs and ...

Plus: Illinois just passed what could become America’s strongest AI safety law. This is today's edition of The Download, our ...

Startup Rock Zero is commercializing the research, which could cut costs and carbon emissions from lithium production.

A public 1, permanent 2, append-only 3 distributed 4 ledger 5. A mathematical structure for storing data in a way that is nearly impossible to fake. It can be used for all kinds of valuable data.

What do the numbers really say about the impact of artificial intelligence on the labor market? The answer might surprise you ...

Despite a lack of regulation, we still have the ability to steer artificial intelligence in ways that can benefit our common humanity.

As tools like Claude Code get better, more and more developers are happy to hand off coding tasks to them. The way software ...

Fervo Energy, X-energy, and Solv Energy are all racing to supply more electricity for rising demand. This year, there’s been ...

AI has not yet produced mass unemployment. But it may be quietly weakening the first rung of the career ladder. A recent ...

Employment is not also declining in the entry-level jobs with low AI exposure. The concern is specific to early-career jobs ...

It is one thing to say AI will change the world. It is another to expect the class of 2026 to applaud it. In fact, when ...