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Nvidia’s Chips Power the Supercomputer That Could Change AI
A few months ago, AI supercomputer Gefion was plugged in for the first time in a ceremony featuring the Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, the King of Denmark and Nadia Carlsten, the CEO of the Danish Centre for AI Innovation. Carlsten and Mads Krogsgaard Thomsen, CEO of the Novo Nordisk Foundation, join WSJ’s Ben Cohen to discuss what they hope to achieve with 1,500 of the most powerful graphics processing units on the planet, including innovations in drug discovery, protein design and digital biology.
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Could Ultrasound Help Treat Addiction?
The future of addiction treatment could be in treating the brain itself. A new trial at West Virginia University’s Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute is exploring whether using ultrasound waves on parts of the brain associated with addiction could disrupt connections that contribute to cravings. WSJ health reporter Julie Wernau explains how it works and how it could change the science of treating addiction.
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Further reading:
Can Zapping the Brain Help Treat Addiction?
Ultrasound Isn’t Just for Pregnancy. How It’s Helping Treat the Brain.
A Generation of Drug-Addiction Survivors Is Entering Old Age
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How New Wearable Tech Targets Brain Waves for Better Sleep
Do you have trouble falling asleep? If meditation apps and sleep trackers aren’t cutting it, now there’s technology designed to help users not only nod off more quickly but improve their slumber. WSJ’s Charlotte Gartenberg speaks with Science Bureau Chief Jo Craven McGinty about the latest wearable sleep tech that targets brain waves with sound and light to help you get a good night’s rest.
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Further reading:
New Wearable Devices Target the Brain to Bring Better Sleep
To Get a Better Night’s Sleep, First Fix Your Day
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Could Making a New Woolly Mammoth Help Human Health?
Colossal Biosciences wants to create new animals that resemble extinct creatures like the woolly mammoth, thanks to advancements in genetic engineering and synthetic biology. In this conversation from the WSJ’s Future of Everything Festival in May 2024, Colossal Biosciences co-founder and CEO Ben Lamm discusses how the de-extinction of species could help address the loss of biodiversity and benefit ecosystems. He tells Future of Everything editorial director Stefanie Ilgenfritz about his plans for monetizing the technology, and how it could be used for human health.
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Further reading:
Return of the Woolly Mammoth?
Doctors Can Now Edit the Genes Inside Your Body
How Ancient Hunters Felled Massive Mammoths and Hungry Predators
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Science of Success: Who’s Winning the EV Market in 2025?
Electric vehicle sales growthexperienced a slow down in 2 023 that continued into this year. Despite EV makers’ big bets on batteries, buyers seemed more hesitant to take the all-electric route. But EV sales are exp ected to keep growing in 2025, according to Cox Automotive. On the Science of Success, WSJ’s Ben Cohen speaks with Journal reporter Sean McLain about the companies he’s watching and his predictions for the EV race in 2025.
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