Leading AI labs, executives, and scientists are sending a letter to lawmakers urging them to improve tracking of synthetic DNA sequences that could be used for bioweapons. The CEOs of several major ...

New York has implemented a law requiring advertisements featuring AI-generated people to clearly label them as “synthetic performers.” ...

Sudarshan Pinglay is a synthetic biologist who leads a research laboratory affiliated with the University of Washington and the Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology in Seattle, Washington. Ten years ago, ...

The market research sector has a problem: You don’t pick up your damn phone anymore. Some eight in 10 of us don’t answer when an unknown number calls, according to the Pew Research Center, a shift ...

The heads of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind and more signed an open letter raising concerns about the rising biosecurity risks posed by better AI models. Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She ...

E-readers have been around since before the turn of the millennium, but have they achieved the perfect screen size for reading? Considering that there are many people who use phones or tablets to read ...

An open letter, In Support of Mandatory Nucleic Acid Synthesis Screening and Recordkeeping, published late on the evening of June 3, 2026, and signed by life sciences researchers, technologists, ...

New federal test scores show younger students are making gains in reading and math — after years of declines. "I think this is an optimistic release," Matthew Soldner, acting commissioner of the ...

Electroenzymatic synthesis offers a promising route to combine the selectivity of enzymes with the tunability of electrochemistry, enabling sustainable chemical production powered by electricity. Yet ...

It’s very rare to see the book community gather in arms against someone or something. But suddenly this week my timelines across multiple platforms (X, TikTok, Threads, and Instagram) were flooded ...

Scientists from six Asian countries have launched an ambitious 10-year effort to build synthetic cells from non-living molecules, marking the region's first coordinated push to create an artificial ...

University of Washington researchers built PaperTok, an AI system that converts academic papers into short-form videos with editable scripts, storyboarded scenes, and author creditsThe Latest Tech ...