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Add ground insects to pasta and burgers to overcome food supply issues, scientists say 'Future foods' could feed isolated communities and overcome trade issues, a new paper has said State-of-the-art, enclosed and modular photo-bioreactors (PBR) to produce chlorella and spirulina algae.   Credit: Vaxa, Iceland Maggots and insects should be ground up and put into pasta to tackle food supply problems, Cambridge University academics have said. "Future foods" which are more resilient to climate change and disasters could be used to make up for shortfalls in more traditional forms of protein, the...

April 22, 2021 From nuclear weapons to biowarfare to cyberattacks, humanity has much to overcome. Martin Rees and Frederick Lamb discuss the obstacles we must face as we look forward to humanity’s future on Earth. What is the fate of humanity – and other living creatures – on planet Earth? In the 21st century, we humans hold the key. Image via NASA. The American Physical Society met virtually this week, and – on April 19, 2021, at a press gathering – the U.K.’s Astronomer Royal Martin Rees and astrophysicist Frederick Lamb discussed some of the serious obstacles humans must overco...

Discover the stupidity of AI emotion recognition with this little browser game Does your face match your feelings? Share this story Image: The Verge Tech companies don’t just want to identify you using facial recognition — they also want to read your emotions with the help of AI. For many scientists, though, claims about computers’ ability to understand emotion are fundamentally flawed, and a little in-browser web game built by researchers from the University of Cambridge aims to show why. Head over to emojify.info, and you can see how your emotions are “read” by your computer via...

Asked in 2003, the UK’s astronomer royal, Martin Rees, gave our present society 50/50 odds of lasting until the end of the century. It’s fair to say the odds haven’t improved in the years since he made this call. The planet is warming, a pandemic runs wild, the threat of nuclear war still hangs overhead and emerging technologies are allowing for the development of new weapons of mass destruction. Existential threats to human existence are growing – and the time left to address them gets ever shorter. So the new presidential term in the world’s most powerful nation takes on a special...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Part 1 of a cartoon summary providing a brief excursion into what the future could like as these issues in bioengineering develop. Based on the bioengineering horizon scan published in... view more  Credit: Centre for Existential Risk, Cambridge University During the summer of 2019, a global team of experts put their heads together to define the key questions facing the UK government when it comes to biological security. Facilitated by the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) at the University of Cambridge and the BioRISC project at St Catharine's College,...