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NASA has replaced Anne McClain with male astronaut Nick Hague for what would have been the world's first all-female spacewalk.
NASA

NASA Cancels First All-Female Spacewalk

The problem: One medium-sized spacesuit. Two medium-sized astronauts.

By Kristin Houser

Austin-based startup Briggo has built a fully automated robot barista capable of filling 100 gourmet coffee orders in one hour.
Robotics

This Robot Can Make as Much Gourmet Coffee as Four Baristas

Look out, hipster coffee shops!

By Kristin Houser

The wealthy are doing what they can to limit the screen time of themselves and their children, spending money on "screen-free" schools and experiences.
Future Society

Tech Used to Be for the Rich. Now They’re Paying to Avoid It.

"What we are seeing now is the luxurification of human engagement."

By Kristin Houser

New research suggests that human brains continue to grow new neurons after birth, tipping the scales of a decades-long scientific debate.
Brain

New Study Suggests Adult Brains Might Grow New Neurons

The research breathes new life into a decades-old scientific debate.

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists built a handheld device that uses CRISPR genetic tools and graphene transistors to screen for the mutations behind muscular dystrophy.
Health & Medicine

Handheld CRISPR Device Diagnoses Genetic Disease in 15 Minutes

The device could make genetic testing easier and more accessible.

By Dan Robitzski

Instead, according to scientist and philosopher Bernardo Kastrup, some are starting to suspect that matter and reality are complex illusions.
Physics

Physicists Are Starting to Suspect Physical Reality Is an Illusion

They think the physical universe might be a sort of mass hallucination derived from pure information.

By Jon Christian

DARPA funded a research project that wants to use the noise given off by snapping shrimp and other sea life as ubiquitous sonar.
DARPA

DARPA Wants to Use Noisy Shrimp to Detect Enemy Subs

Underwater white noise could serve as natural sonar.

By Dan Robitzski

The Estonian Ministry of Justice is officially designing a  "robot judge" that could take care of a backlog of small claims court disputes.
Future Society

Estonia is Building a “Robot Judge” to Help Clear Legal Backlog

Estonia's court system could soon get an AI overhaul.

By Victor Tangermann

The diabetes drug metformin is gaining favor in Silicon Valley where techies seek prescriptions in the hopes of warding off the Grim Reaper.
Health & Medicine

A Cheap Diabetes Drug Shows Potential as a Life-Extension Therapy

But pharmaceutical companies have little financial incentive to research it.

By Kristin Houser

A pocket of researchers in Silicon Valley believe that people currently living can survive for 1,000 years. But others in the field remain skeptics.
Health & Medicine

A Scientist Thinks Someone Alive Today Will Live to be 1,000

"It's extraordinary to me that it's such an incendiary claim."

By Dan Robitzski

Members of the growing BirthStrike movement are publicly announcing their decision to forgo parenthood in the face of climate catastrophe.
Climate Change

“BirthStrikers” Refuse to Reproduce Because of Climate Change

"It would break my heart to bring children into the world and have it collapse around them."

By Kristin Houser

On March 15, Google converted currencies to Ghana's Cedi at one-fourth of its actual value. This is the third country to be hit by the glitch this year.
Future Society

Google Glitch Wrongly Claimed That Ghana’s Economy Collapsed

Your economy crashed! Just kidding.

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla Is Now Building Cars With Hardware For “Full Self-Driving”
Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Is Now Building Cars With Hardware For “Full Self-Driving”

Will "Hardware 3" allow Tesla cars to truly drive themselves?

By Victor Tangermann

First noticed in 2016, the Australian government recently confirmed the first mammalian extinction that was caused by human-induced climate change.
Climate Change

Climate Change Just Wiped out Its First Mammal

Rest in peace, little friend.

By Dan Robitzski

This ultra-high-definition 360 degree visualization comes courtesy of data collected by the Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA's Ames supercomputer.
Off-World

360-Degree Video Puts You in the Center of the Milky Way Galaxy

It's peaceful — except for the supermassive black holes.

By Victor Tangermann

A startup says it's building a futuristic facility that'll suck as much CO2 out of the atmosphere of every year as 40 million trees.
Renewable Energy

New Facility Aims to Capture 40 Million Trees’ Worth of CO2 Every Year

It locked down initial funding with the help of Bill Gates.

By Jon Christian

New video footage shows that a dangerous problem with the Tesla Autopilot system that makes cars veer towards highway dividers is still happening.
Tesla

Video Shows Tesla Autopilot Steering Toward Highway Barriers

This isn't the first time Tesla's AI veered off course.

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory proposed to send a spacecraft called "Trident" to Neptune's largest moon Triton.
Moon

NASA Proposes Mission to Neptune’s Largest Moon Triton

NASA suspects it could harbor an ocean — and maybe even life.

By Victor Tangermann

More details emerge about the U.S. Army's virtual reality combat training simulations, which a software developer says is ramping up its scale.
Virtual Reality

The U.S. Army Is Using Virtual Reality Combat to Train Soldiers

The virtual battlefield can simulate millions of "intelligent entities."

By Dan Robitzski

MoviePass is launching a new app, PreShow, which will force you to watch — actually watch — 20 minutes of ads in exchange for movie tickets.
Future Society

Brutal Startup Is Using Eye Tracking to Force You to Watch Ads

It's basically like "A Clockwork Orange."

By Dan Robitzski