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The benefits of lab-grown meat will depend on scientists' ability to produce it sustainably, and right now, we don't know if that's even possible.
Future Society

Lab-Grown Meat Could Be Worse for the Environment

Growing meat isn't automatically cleaner than raising it.

By Kristin Houser

When employers provide fitness trackers, they're privy to all sorts of private medical information that they can potentially use to determine layoffs.
Health & Medicine

Bosses Are Spying on Employees With Work-Provided Fitness Trackers

"It's quite possible there will be effects on whether you are retained, promoted, demoted — who is first to be laid off."

By Dan Robitzski

Rather than attempt to interpret emoji and emoticons in online communications, some courts simply choose to ignore the symbols.
Future Society

Judges Are Struggling to Interpret Emoji in Court Cases

A lawyer warns about the rise of "emoji law."

By Kristin Houser

The FDA released a statement today warning that longevity companies advertising transfusions of young people's blood are likely scams.
Health & Medicine

The FDA Warns: Transfusions of Young Blood Are a Dangerous Scam

FDA Commissioner: "we’re concerned that some patients are being preyed upon by unscrupulous actors"

By Dan Robitzski

Using the Netherlands-based Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), astronomers have added another 300,000 galaxies to our map of the universe.
Science & Energy

Scientists Just Discovered 300,000 New Galaxies

A new telescope delivers with its very first survey of the sky.

By Kristin Houser

"Swarm squadrons of network-enabled drones capable of confusing and overwhelming enemy air defenses" could fight alongside fighter jets in the British army.
Drones

The British Military Is Working on Anti-Aircraft Drone Swarms

"Swarm squadrons of network-enabled drones" could confuse and overwhelm the enemy.

By Victor Tangermann

A statistician is warning that scientists are leaning on machine learning algorithms to find patterns in data where none exist.
Machine Learning

Statistician: Machine Learning Is Causing A “Crisis in Science”

Many researchers now use machine learning to analyze data. There's just one glaring problem.

By Jon Christian

The Navy just awarded Boeing a contract to build a giant robot submarine, which it says will prowl the depths of the ocean autonomously.
Robotics

Navy’s Giant New Robot Sub Will Prowl Ocean For Months Autonomously

The Navy's working on a deadly new ocean hunter.

By Jon Christian

This weekend, Elon Musk took to Twitter to confirm that he'd left the research group OpenAI — citing disagreements with the group's direction.
Artificial Intelligence

Elon Musk Quits Research Group That Built “Fake News” Generator

Elon Musk: "I didn't agree with some of what [the] OpenAI team wanted to do."

By Jon Christian

According to a new study, the growth of the number of people who think the Earth is flat is directly tied to the growth of conspiracy theories on YouTube.
Future Society

New Research: YouTube Caused The “Flat Earther” Epidemic

"Their algorithms make it easy to end up going down the rabbit hole."

By Jon Christian

In a new essay, a law professor grappled with the specter of sex robots designed to look like children — and more about the complicated future of sexbots.
Robotics

This Researcher Is Worried About Child Sex Robots

The rise of sexbots is raising uncomfortable questions.

By Jon Christian

An anthropologist is making the case that long space missions, like a crewed trip to Mars, would require crew members with senses of humor.
Mars

NASA Is Studying Whether a Mars Crew Would Need a Class Clown

Knock knock.

By Jon Christian

The Australian government is gearing up to plant a billion new trees, as part of a vast campaign aimed to meet the climate targets.
Climate Change

Australia Is Planting a Billion Trees to Fight Climate Change

Could a worldwide tree-planting spree save the planet?

By Jon Christian

NASA's Opportunity Mars rover's last words weren't literally that "my battery is low line," the reporter behind the viral tweet clarified.
Mars

The Dead Mars Rover Didn’t Actually Say That “My Battery” Thing

Obviously.

By Jon Christian

An ambitious new analysis found that there's space to plant 1.2 trillion new trees — a number that would absorb more carbon than human emissions.
Climate Change

Research: Planting Trillions of Trees Could Cancel Out CO2 Emissions

Scientist: Trees are "our most powerful weapon in the fight against climate change."

By Jon Christian

A NASA director warned that Elon Musk's proposed Starship design was going to be "orders of magnitude" more difficult than any NASA project in history.
Starship

NASA Chief: SpaceX’s Starship Tougher Than Any NASA Project, Ever

Elon Musk's Mars plan is "orders of magnitude" harder than any NASA project in history, a NASA leader warned.

By Jon Christian

This self-sustaining livable yacht has everything you'd need to live off the grid if climate change rendered the land uninhabitable.
Climate Change

Ride out Climate Change in This $5.5 Million Self-Sustaining Yacht

It's solar-powered, hurricane-proof, and incredibly expensive.

By Kristin Houser

CEO Elon Musk confirmed in a tweet that a "Party and Camping Mode" would roll out in "probably a month or two."
Tesla

Teslas Are Getting a “Party and Camping Mode”

Elon Musk wants to keep the party going.

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists Call for a Ban on AI-Controlled Killer Robots
Robotics

Scientists Call for a Ban on AI-Controlled Killer Robots

Should an AI make the final decision to take a life?

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists developed a piece of machine learning software that can predict the prognosis of ovarian cancer and at a higher accuracy.
Cancer

This AI Can Predict Survival of Ovarian Cancer Patients

It's up to four times more accurate than standard methods.

By Victor Tangermann