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Researchers are looking to the resin spurge, a plant with a super-hot active ingredient, as the potential future of pain relief.
Health & Medicine

It's 10,000 times hotter than the world's hottest pepper.

By Kristin Houser

Using a new AI system, researchers within the infant scientific discipline asteroseismology can learn more about the subsurface activity of distant stars.
Off-World

Now scientists can understand far-off stars better than ever before.

By Dan Robitzski

This $799 Home Crypto Mining Machine is a Terrible Investment
Cryptocurrency

At today's rates, it would take 45 years to pay for itself.

By Victor Tangermann

Startup Space Tango has unveiled an autonomous orbital facility powered by robots that could be the future of space manufacturing.
Off-World

And it thinks they'll be ready for launch by the mid-2020s.

By Kristin Houser

Abuse survivors are using cryptocurrency for crowdfunding so they can raise needed funds without potentially exposing their identities.
Blockchain

Crypto is helping address holes in social safety nets.

By Kristin Houser

The recently reunited band The KLF wants 35,000 fans to stuff their cremated remains into a brick to be built into a giant pyramid. Seems reasonable.
Future Society

If you’re not willing to turn your remains into a brick, are you even a real fan?

By Dan Robitzski

DARPA is testing a sensor that would allow stratospheric balloons to remain in one place, possibly leading to a new military surveillance platform.
Future Society

The agency is using lasers to keep its balloons in one place.

By Kristin Houser

The FCC approved a SpaceX request to launch more than 7,000 internet-broadcasting satellites. The only catch: they need to do it fast.
SpaceX

But the clock is ticking, under the terms of the approval.

By Jon Christian

Privacy experts are concerned that governments could use Amazon's patented accent-detection technology to violate civil rights.
Artificial Intelligence

This patented tech raises all sorts of red flags.

By Kristin Houser

Elon Musks' Boring Company has been hard at work tunneling away under Hawthorne, California. But they never informed the community that they would do so.
Elon Musk

Only those in wealthy neighborhoods had the resources to stave off Elon’s tunnel.

By Dan Robitzski

A biotechnology firm figured out how to scan an embryo for genetic markers that predict an abnormally high or low intelligence.
Health & Medicine

The same technology that screens for genetic disease can check IQ.

By Dan Robitzski

In a new video, tech company Synthesia demonstrates its AI-powered dubbing tech, which could make it easy for others to create deepfakes.
Artificial Intelligence

It could make it easy for anyone to create deepfakes.

By Kristin Houser

A new startup called Nebula Genomics wants to reward you for your genomic data in the form of "Nebula credits." But will those ever be worth anything?
Blockchain

But don't expect to be paid in U.S. dollars.

By Victor Tangermann

A team of Harvard scientists just launched a new initiative to steer the U.S. towards better AI policy. Soon, they'll teach Congress the basics.
Artificial Intelligence

Harvard scientists will teach elected officials the basics of AI this February.

By Dan Robitzski

The La Roche-Posay My Skin Track UV sensor monitors how much UVA and UVB radiation you're getting, so you know when to get more sunscreen.
Health & Medicine

The $60, thumbnail-sized clip will tell you when it’s sunny.

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers in Singapore has developed an eye patch covered in dissolvable needles that deliver drugs right into the eyeball.
Health & Medicine

And you'd place it in your eye yourself.

By Kristin Houser

Google engineers trained a neural net on thousands of song lyrics and classic novels. It wrote some songs and we think they're fantastic.
Google

Here are our favorites.

By Dan Robitzski

barnard's star planet
Science & Energy

Its existence has been questioned since the 1960s.

By Sarah Marquart

Ford, Walmart, and Postmates have teamed up to develop a service in which self-driving cars deliver goods right to customers homes.
Self-Driving Vehicles

You might never need to leave your house again.

By Kristin Houser

Glimpse: How Visual Effects Artists Bring the Future to the Big Screen
Future Society

The movie magic behind your favorite sci-fi flicks.

By Catherine Mullen