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A new swarm of robots inspired by biological cells can communicate with each other to autonomously create new structures and shapes.
Robotics

Each individual robot is as replaceable and programmable as a biological cell.

Someone hacked NASA servers, potentially stealing the personal info of employees in the process, according to an internal memo.
Hacking

NASA still isn't sure how many staff members were affected.

The Boring Company just threw a big party to show off its newly completed first stretch of its test tunnel in Hawthorne, California.
Advanced Transport

The company's big reveal was pretty... boring.

Australian astronaut Andy Thomas believes the spaceplane designed by Virgin Galactic is not well-suited to get humans to space.
NASA

"As a technology to get humans out into space, it's a go-nowhere, dead-end technology."

UNICEF announced a one month old child born in Cook's Bay on Erromango Island received the world's first drone-delivered vaccine.
Drones

The drone had to fly more than 24 miles of mountainous terrain.

An AI gender gap is emerging, with far more men than women possessing skills and holding senior positions in the artificial intelligence industry.
Artificial Intelligence

Only 22 percent of professionals with AI skills are female.

Thanks to its partnership with startup Nuro, supermarket chain Kroger is starting to make deliveries via its autonomous bots without any drivers.
Self-Driving Vehicles

No safety driver required.

A dementia reversal treatment is moving from animal testing to human safety trials thanks to $10 million in funding from the Australian government.
Treatments

Australia is spending $10 million to test the drug-free therapy.

A new model for backwards time travel debunks one of the main reasons scientists assumed it was possible. But that doesn't make it any easier.
Physics

A time machine wouldn't need to have negative mass, as many physicists believe.

Boyan Slat, the 24-year-old behind the Ocean Cleanup, is confident that his plastic-corralling barrier could still work despite initial issues.
Pollution

The project's 24-year-old founder is still hopeful.

Trump Signs Order to Create a U.S. Space Command
Off-World

The first U.S. Space Command was founded in 1985 and disbanded in 2002.

SpaceIL's privately funded lunar lander won't launch aboard a Falcon 9 until February, and SpaceX gave the company no explanation for the two-month delay.
SpaceX

It has pushed the launch by two months.

New self-assembling molecular networks can take away several challenges from atomic-scale data storage.
Science & Energy

New research makes existing atomic-scale storage tech much simpler.

Mutated Animals Show Why Gene Editing Isn’t Ready for Human Trials
Gene Editing

CRISPR isn't ready for humans when it's giving animals enlarged tongues and extra vertebrae.

A new timeline compares Elon Musk's predictions for the future with community-aggregated guesses on how space travel and electric vehicles will progress.
Elon Musk

Musk makes a lot of predictions. This site is keeping track.

Police in London will conduct another trial of their highly inaccurate facial recognition technology, the seventh since 2016.
Facial recognition

Trials of inaccurate facial recognition tech continue in London.

Astronomers Just Found a Dwarf Planet Three Times As Far Away As Pluto
Off-World

It's the most distant body ever spotted orbiting the Sun.

A Delivery Robot Burst Into Flames in California
Robotics

The company claims a defective battery was to blame.

Tesla's new "Toilet Humor" and "Romance Mode" features allow owners to make their Teslas fart and play Marvin Gaye. Why?
Tesla

Just in time for the holidays.

SpaceX has shattered the record for commercial rocket launches in a year, at 20. That beats the prior record of 18 launches in a year — which it also set.
SpaceX

It's been a banner year for Elon Musk's SpaceX.