4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (1697+ words) Our biotech honorees are making important medical advances using tools like AI and gene editing. He asked an AI to design viruses … and it worked. Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel King came up…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1714+ words) Our biotech honorees are making important medical advances using tools like AI and gene editing. She helped develop the first personalized gene-editing therapy. When Kyle “KJ” Muldoon Jr. was born with a rare and potentially fatal genetic disorder in the…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1469+ words) This group is cleaning up some of the economy’s dirtiest sectors, including agriculture and heavy industry. He’s using AI to track pollution as it spreads. Satellites, weather stations, and air quality monitors provide essential snapshots of the particulate matter, greenhouse…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1469+ words) This group is cleaning up some of the economy’s dirtiest sectors, including agriculture and heavy industry. He turned an invasive weed into sustainable packaging. Although Nguthiru’s products haven’t quite reached cost parity with their petroleum-based counterparts, he says they’re among…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1469+ words) This group is cleaning up some of the economy’s dirtiest sectors, including agriculture and heavy industry. His company uses electricity to extract a key metal. As demand swells for electric vehicles and energy storage systems, manufacturers are increasingly hungry for…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1247+ words) She designs habitats for outer space. The way space stations and other large extraterrestrial infrastructure are built hasn’t changed much in the last few decades. The size of each component is limited by what can fit into a rocket. And…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1469+ words) This group is cleaning up some of the economy’s dirtiest sectors, including agriculture and heavy industry. He’s created a new way to process minerals. Processing critical minerals has traditionally been a dirty and expensive business. But Benjamin Mowbray co-invented a…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1247+ words) She designs energy-efficient computer chips for the AI era. Whenever today’s computer chips run a computation, much of the energy they consume is wasted, given off as heat. Dealing with this lost energy limits how fast a chip can run,…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1469+ words) This group is cleaning up some of the economy’s dirtiest sectors, including agriculture and heavy industry. He developed climate models that work better for cities. The world’s ability to adapt to climate change depends heavily on models—from short-term weather…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1263+ words) These innovators are finding high-impact ways to deploy AI and working to improve underlying models. He’s creating tools for fully autonomous science. But AI-powered software is only one step in the company’s mission of autonomous scientific discovery. Kompa, 31, and his…...