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This Week in Science: Oct 13 – Oct 20
Science & Energy

This Week in Science: Oct 13 – Oct 20

Imitation smoked salmon, robot lecturers, legalized weed, and more.

This Week in Science: Oct 27 – Nov 2
Science & Energy

This Week in Science: Oct 27 – Nov 2

Giant black holes, fusion research, messages to aliens, and more

This Week in Tech: Oct 27 – Nov 2
Science & Energy

This Week in Tech: Oct 27 – Nov 2

Robot security guards, hoverbikes, artificial moons, and more.

How Data Transparency Is Helping Us Build Future Cities
Data Privacy

How Data Transparency Is Helping Us Build Future Cities

What do you do when mold from your apartment makes you sick? This entrepreneur created an app.

Microsoft just created a new AI system that can scan a news column and pull out the most important facts for quicker reading.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft’s New Neural Network Summarizes the News — Erratically

News anchor AI will save us all.

Researchers have created a bioreactor device that helps regrow limbs on frogs when worn for just 24 hours post-amputation.
Science & Energy

A Wearable Device Helped Frogs Regrow Their Amputated Limbs

The limbs the frogs regrew were more like their original ones.

A new kind of prosthetic limb gives people the control of the most sophisticated prostheses out there, but is also easily-interchangeable.
Prosthetics and Devices

New Prosthetic Limbs are More Interchangeable Than Ever

“We think of it like a USB connector from the body.”

A new online tool, "AI Portraits" takes a photo of your face and uses artificial intelligence to try and generate a realistic portrait.
Artificial Intelligence

This Website Will Generate an AI Portrait of You

The algorithm reconstructs your face based on how it sees you.

NASA posted a video to its Commercial Crew Twitter account of astronauts wearing SpaceX spacesuits while inside a Crew Dragon spacecraft.
NASA

NASA Astronauts Put SpaceX Spacesuits to the Test

NASA's Commercial Crew program is getting closer to liftoff.

When Galaxies Merge, The Black Holes In Their Hearts Fuse Together
Science & Energy

When Galaxies Merge, The Black Holes In Their Hearts Fuse Together

Yeah, it sounds goth, but it could explain the enormous size of certain black holes.

Researchers created bionic mushrooms that could keep electricity-generating cyanobacteria alive longer than other surfaces.
Energy

We Can Now Generate Electricity From “Bionic Mushrooms”

The fungi could finally let us harness the power of cyanobacteria.

Five Fun Tips To Help Delay Climate Catastrophe
Climate Change

Five Fun Tips To Help Delay Climate Catastrophe

Be the best futurist you can be.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation invested big money in new sanitation technology, yielding developments that could save hundreds of thousands of lives.
Health & Medicine

Bill Gates Wants to Save Lives and Money With High-Tech Toilets

Gates thinks better sanitation can save half a million lives and $200 billion.

The Energy Spent Mining $1 of Bitcoin Could Earn You $3.40 in Gold
Bitcoin

The Energy Spent Mining $1 of Bitcoin Could Earn You $3.40 in Gold

Researchers translate the energy needed to mine crypto into dollars earned.

Chinese police are now employing gait recognition software to identify citizens, making it the latest weapon in the nation's war against privacy.
Future Society

China Can Now Identify a Citizen Based on Their Walk

We don't need to see a person's face to recognize them.

Plant-based meats are more impressive and convincing than ever. But if they're going to save the environment, governments need to help.
Environment

Unless Governments Get Involved, Plant-Based Meat Won’t Take Off

Startups might make a lot of money, but they can’t do humanitarian work on their own.

China just unveiled a life-size replica of its new permanently crewed space station called Tiangong. But it's not quite as big as the ISS.
Off-World

China’s New Space Station Is Called The “Heavenly Palace”

The International Space Station is about to get a new neighbor.

New research shows that those who are given more money become greedier and refuse to help fight climate change. The poor are left on their own.
Climate Change

To Fight Climate Change, The Poor Would Spend More Than The Rich

New research shows that the “haves” don’t pull their weight.

SpaceX recently proved it was ready to handle caring for an injured astronaut with a rehearsal aboard its GO Searcher recovery ship.
SpaceX

SpaceX Reveals How It Would Handle an Astronaut Emergency

With spaceflight, it's never a bad idea to prepare for the worst.

Researchers at MIT developed a machine learning model that can detect depression by analyzing speech and the way patients talk.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Can Tell If You’re Depressed by Listening to You Talk

But it won't replace a human therapist any time soon.