Break on Through

“A new technique in artificial intelligence called GANs is giving machines imagination; artificial embryos, despite some thorny ethical constraints, are redefining how life can be created and are opening a research window into the early moments of a human life; and a pilot plant in the heart of Texas’s petrochemical industry is attempting to create completely clean power from natural gas.” Those are just a few of the advances featured in MIT Tech Review’s 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2018.