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Syzygy Plasmonics has raised nearly $6 million to produce a cleaner form of hydrogen, using a novel type of photocatalyst.

The latest genre of nuisance email tries to blackmail victims with threats to send embarrassing images or information to their contacts. A new analysis reveals just how much money this type of scam can generate.

If this controversial idea gains acceptance, it could radically change the way we treat getting old.

For a core of longevity true believers, the time to intervene is now.

Hao Li has spent his career perfecting digital trickery. Now he’s working to confront the problem of increasingly seamless off-the-shelf deception.

Complying with regulators could mean the difference between going mainstream and remaining forever on the margins of the global financial system.

Photovoltaic cells are notoriously sensitive to temperature. Now a new study reveals how global warming will reduce output across the globe by 2100.

Scientists linked late July’s heat wave in Western Europe to climate change in a matter of days.

Hindu nationalists are flooding TikTok with videos declaring they plan to go to Kashmir, get married, and ostensibly make the majority-Muslim contested region Hindu.

A New York City government pilot program is bringing technologists and domestic abuse victims together for good.

Michele Harrison froze 21 eggs. Only one was suitable for IVF.

Google’s artificial-intelligence researchers have created a football simulator for training the next generation of machine-learning algorithms.

Chip maker Nvidia is betting that AI’s language skills will advance rapidly—it’s releasing a powerful tool for putting together chatty programs.

This provision of the Communications Decency Act is being blamed for everything from social-media bias to enabling revenge porn. Here’s how to understand the law that created the modern internet.

The “terrascope” could outperform the light-gathering power of any feasible ground-based telescope.

Inside Senior Planet, the tech-savviest retirement community on earth.

A California “human biohacking” bill calls for warnings on do-it-yourself genetic-engineering kits.

The monstrous object should be big enough for ground-based radio telescopes to image.

Univfy uses machine learning to give women personalized predictions—and a sense of hope—for their chances of having a baby.

As the threats of climate change grow, we’re all likely to hear more and more about the possibilities, and dangers, of geoengineering. Here’s what it means.

The bad news: to make really deep emissions cuts, most of us should probably go vegan.

Details of a recent attack on the popular crypto exchange reflect capabilities on par with those of nation-state-sponsored attackers.

Why you’re more of a sucker than you think.

Editing the epigenome, which turns our genes on and off, could be the “elixir of life.”

Companies like CloudFactory, iMerit, and Samasource promise data sets provided by workers who are well paid and cared for. It’s not an easy business.

CloudFlare has changed expectations of the moral obligations of technology companies.

The debate over “compelled decryption” is likely headed for the US Supreme Court.

A look at the full lifetime emissions of the vehicles call into question the ecological assumptions around “micromobility.”