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Uber will begin testing its autonomous vehicles in Pittsburgh on Thursday, marking the company's first tests since a fatal incident in March.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Nine Months After Killing a Pedestrian, Uber’s Self-Driving Cars Are Back on the Road

Pennsylvania authorized the company to resume tests on Monday.

By Dan Robitzski

A porn studio says it's created a prototype helmet that uses seven cameras and a pair of binaural cameras to film the next generation of immersive video.
Virtual Reality

Why a Spider-Eyed “Sex Helmet” Could Be the Future of VR Video

History shows that it would be a mistake to ignore innovations in the adult film sector.

By Jon Christian

Congress has passed a $1.2 billion quantum computing bill designed to accelerate U.S. research into the nascent technology.
Quantum Computing

Congress Passes $1.2 Billion Quantum Computing Bill

Next stop: the desk of President Trump.

By Kristin Houser

When scientists finally build quantum computers, they'll make quick work of current cybersecurity. But using biological systems for security may stump them.
Biology

New Encryption Is Based on the Random Movement of Living Cells

Living cells could provide the encryption to fight quantum hackers.

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's InSight lander just successfully placed its seismometer five feet from itself onto the surface of Mars.
Mars

NASA’s Mars Lander Places Instrument to Listen for “Marsquakes”

InSight's seismometer will listen for clues about Mars' core — and whether there's water under the surface.

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have modified a common houseplant with a bit of rabbit DNA to improve its ability to remove toxins from the air.
Science & Energy

A Houseplant With Rabbit DNA Could Purify the Air in Your Home

A gene from a rabbit helped a common ivy break down air toxins.

By Kristin Houser

A pilot study designed to see how guide dogs would react to delivery robots revealed the animals aren't bothered by seeing the bots on the streets.
Robot Dogs

Guide Dogs Respond Better Than Some Humans to Autonomous Robots

The dogs weren't bothered when they saw bots on the streets.

By Kristin Houser

SpaceX’s Reusable Dragon 2 Crew Capsule Is Covered in Solar Panels
SpaceX

SpaceX’s Reusable Dragon 2 Crew Capsule Is Covered in Solar Panels

Even the side fins appear to be lined with a mosaic of small panels.

By Victor Tangermann

Last Friday, 75 coast redwood saplings found their new home in San Francisco's Presidio national park. All of them are clones of ancient redwood stumps.
Environment

Scientists Planted Clones of Ancient Super-Tall Redwoods

The 75 saplings are all genetically identical to ancient redwood stumps.

By Dan Robitzski

A new carbon powder is highly efficient at the process of CO2 capture, which could help us address our greenhouse gas emissions.
Renewable Energy

New Powder Captures CO2 Before It Can Hit the Atmosphere

Researchers use heat and salt to extract it from plant matter.

By Kristin Houser

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

Bio-Inspired Swarm Robots Can Form Structures Without a Blueprint

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

By Dan Robitzski

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

Hackers Accessed NASA Servers Containing Employee Information

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

By Kristin Houser

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 Boring Company Just Showed Off Its First Completed Tunnel

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

By Victor Tangermann

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

Former NASA Astronaut: Virgin Galactic’s Space Flights Are “Dangerous”

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

By Kristin Houser

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

A Child Was Immunized By the World’s First Drone-Delivered Vaccine

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

By Victor Tangermann

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

Report Finds Huge Gender Gap in Artificial Intelligence Workforce

Only 22 percent of professionals with AI skills are female.

By Kristin Houser

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

U.S. Grocer Kroger Has Begun Making Autonomous Deliveries

No safety driver required.

By Victor Tangermann

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

Treatment to Reverse Alzheimer’s Symptoms Moving to Human Trials

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

By Kristin Houser

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 New Model Debunks a Popular Argument Against Time Travel

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

By Dan Robitzski

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

Ocean Cleanup Barrier Isn’t Catching Plastic, but Could Be Soon

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

By Kristin Houser