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Ge Wang on the future of computer music

“The worry isn’t just that we as artists would be replaced by generative AI,” says Ge Wang. “It’s that we might be replaced by something far more generic and far less interesting.”

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New treatments show promise for treating childhood pain

Innovative approaches using virtual reality and sensory retraining are helping kids manage their chronic pain symptoms.

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The future of measuring cancer

New technologies could improve how scientists measure cancer cells at the molecular level, and predict how they will behave and grow.

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How humans learn to read

Researchers know a lot about the decoding process and how to teach it. Understanding how comprehension works is a lot more challenging.

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Rule makers, rule breakers

Michele Gelfand explains how the concept of “tight” and “loose” cultures plays out in global affairs, national politics, and your own household.

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Printing biology

Bioengineer Mark Skylar-Scott dreams of the day when instead of receiving a donor heart, a patient could have one made using their own cells.

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Baby babble and AI

The science of how children learn language and use it to understand the world could help large language models do a better job of interpreting the intentions behind words.

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The future of digital health

Eleni Linos talks LLMs, AI-powered diagnoses, and using social media to shift behavior on this episode of The Future of Everything.

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The future of ecohydrology

An expert in the global cycles of carbon and water explains how they are inextricably bound to one another and fundamental to the future of life on planet Earth.

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Karl Deisseroth on the future of neuroscience

The bioengineer and psychiatrist discusses the transformational research techniques that shape our understanding of the brain on this episode of The Future of Everything.

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