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Chemistry

We Can Now Store Data in the Form of a Powder

It could be the storage medium of the future.

Artificial Intelligence

AI-Generated Halloween Music Is a Cool Idea, But it Sounds Awful

Scary movie soundtracks are better left to the human composers.

Future Society

Take a Look at the World’s First Fully Automated Warehouse

The only human employees simply service the robots.

Artificial Intelligence

The White House AI Task Force Wants To Open the AI Floodgates. Here’s How They Should Do It.

Before giving tech companies free rein, the government should install some safeguards.

Health & Medicine

An Eye Scan Could Detect Alzheimer’s Before Symptoms Appear

We've been looking for a cheap, non-invasive screening method. This could be it.

NASA

NASA: Kepler Space Telescope is Out of Fuel

So ends the telescope’s planet-seeking mission.

Advanced Transport

New Battery Tech Could Power a Flight from San Francisco to Los Angeles

Electric passenger planes could finally be practical.

Moon

There’s No Way China’s Artificial Moon Will Work, Says Expert

One aerospace engineer sees major flaws in the plan.

Exobiology

Scientists Want Your Help Crafting a Message to Aliens

They want to update humanity's most famous message to ET.

Pollution

WHO Director: Air Pollution Is the “New Tobacco”

“The world has turned the corner on tobacco. Now it must do the same for the 'new tobacco.'" 

Physics

Scientists May Have Put Microbes in a State of Quantum Entanglement

This could be the first time we've observed a living organism in the quantum realm.

Future Society

Walmart Is Opening a Store With Zero Cashiers

But it's no Amazon Go experience.

Artificial Intelligence

This AI Lie Detector Flags Falsified Police Reports

Do you want cops inside your head?

Environment

These Bacteria Digest Food Waste Into Biodegradable Plastic

Genecis says its plastics biodegrade in about a year.

Advanced Transport

You Can Now Preorder a $150,000 Hoverbike

You could be hovering around your backyard in as little as two months.

Health & Medicine

A Stem Cell Transplant Let a Wheelchair-Bound Man Dance Again

The experimental therapy started working within two days.

Science & Energy

Report Identifies China as the Source of Ozone-Destroying Emissions

It clears up a global mystery.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Dreamed Up These Nightmare Fuel Halloween Masks

They're terrifying, but also a sign that AI is a useful tool for modern creatives.

Robotics

Robot Security Guards Will Constantly Nag Spectators at the Tokyo Olympics

They may be annoying, but the bots could serve an important purpose.

Self-Driving Vehicles

People Would Rather a Self-Driving Car Kill a Criminal Than a Dog

Society has some seriously screwed up priorities.