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Global Warming

Glimpse: How An Army of Resurrected Mammoths Could Curb Global Warming

Genetic engineering isn't known for its ability to scale.

Mars

Scientists Need to Solve These Two Mysteries to Find Life on Mars

Scientists laid out the next steps in the search for extraterrestrial life.

Prosthetics and Devices

Make Music A Full Body Experience With A “Vibro-Tactile” Suit

Everyone can try synesthesia with a suit that translates music into touch.

Artificial Intelligence

Robots Are Coming for Service Jobs

Hotels want robots to be your bellhop. Human bellhops: uh hello?

Nuclear Fusion

Nuclear Power Used to Seem Like the Future. Now Its Fate in the US Is in Question.

There are good things about nuclear power. But it's definitely fallen out of fashion.

Robotics

These Robots Weave Super Durable Fiberglass Structures So Humans Don’t Have To

They could be used to build large structures like bridges or shelters in space.

Health & Medicine

Everyone’s Genome Is Different. That’s Why Scientists Are About to Sequence a Million of Them.

It's the Human Genome Project — times a million.

Drones

This “Flying Sports Car” Is Like a Giant Drone You Can Ride In

The first test ride lasted 10 minutes, and "everything worked perfect.”

Medical

Scientists Want to Put a Horrifying Caterpillar Robot Inside Your Body

Its legs have good traction on "different tissues inside the human body."

Artificial Intelligence

Tread Lightly: This AI Can Identify You by Monitoring Your Footsteps

Sherlock Holmes could do it. Now so can AI.

Moon

SpaceX Will Send Another Company’s Robots to the Moon in 2021

It's helping an XPRIZE competitor finally reach the lunar surface.

DNA

Scientists Wiped Out a Mosquito Population by Hacking Their DNA With CRISPR

It's the first time a gene drive drove a population to collapse.

Artificial Intelligence

This AI Stops People From Lighting up Cigarettes at the Gas Pump

It alerts gas station staff to any signs of unsafe behavior.

DNA

Spotify Will Make a Playlist Based on Your DNA

This is a collaboration we could do without.

Artificial Intelligence

This Musician Created an AI to Write Songs For Him, And They’re Pretty Strange

An “auxiliary human” composed the lyrics and melodies.

Future Society

The World of the Future Will Have Two Separate Internets, Former Google CEO Predicts

One for China, one for everyone else.

Science & Energy

Steel Is A Huge Polluter. New Technologies Could Make it Green.

Steel is a really useful material. It'd be better if we could make it without emitting so much carbon dioxide.

Health & Medicine

Scientists Just Took A “Spectacular Step” Towards Lab-Grown Human Egg Cells

We've never been this close to creating human eggs.

Off-World

Here Are the First Photos Japan’s Robot Landers Sent Back From an Asteroid

The robots have landed. We repeat, the robots have landed.

Artificial Intelligence

The Digest: Yes, China Is Winning the A.I. Race, Because How the Hell Could They Lose It?

It's about resources, one of which is unobstructed state control.