No one’s sure if synthetic mirror life will kill us all
For four days in February 2019, some 30 synthetic biologists and ethicists hunkered down at a conference center in Northern…
Category: public health
AI, Explain Thyself
PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 20, 2021 The past decade has seen machine learning—finding patterns in vast piles of data—in a state of…
Can the principles of topology help improve the world’s slums?
According to the United Nations (UN), nearly 1 billion of the 8 billion people in the world live in slums…
Looking for the roots of risk
On a bright day in the first week of August, Julianna Deardorff escorted five Chilean scientists from Berkeley to The Farm,…