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U.S. lawmakers proposed an amendment to federal patent law that would let biotech and pharma companies patent human genes.
Future Society

New Law Would Let Corporations Patent Human Genes

If passed, companies could dictate and own all the tests and treatments for genetic conditions.

By Dan Robitzski

Not only are quantum jumps predictable, they can also be reversed, according to a new Yale study that could benefit quantum computing research.
Physics

Scientists Predict Quantum Jumps, Turning Physics on Its Head

Found: Schrödinger’s cat, alive and well.

By Kristin Houser

Deepfakes have become more powerful and accessible, but presidential candidates haven't taken steps to counter computer-generated misinformation.
Artificial Intelligence

Report: 2020 Candidates Are Going to Get Owned by Deepfakes

The candidates don't think it's their job to protect against deepfakes.

By Dan Robitzski

Professor Diana Pasulka sees the growing human belief in aliens as mirroring what happens when a religion begins to take shape.
Off-World

Professor: Belief in Aliens Could Replace Traditional Religion

The number of Americans who believe in intelligent alien life is now about the same as the number who believe in God.

By Kristin Houser

According to Chinese state-owned news media, a team of Chinese scientists developed "injectable cartilage" that can be used to  repair human tissue.
Health & Medicine

New “Injectable Cartilage” Could Revolutionize Plastic Surgery

The team of scientists behind the world's first lab-grown ear have a new trick.

By Victor Tangermann

Democrats in the House of Representatives formally launched an antitrust probe into Silicon Valley to determine whether Facebook and Google are monopolies.
Future Society

Congress Is Deciding Whether to Break Up Facebook, Google

Congress is launching an antitrust probe into Silicon Valley.

By Dan Robitzski

An airline and university are teaming up to develop the Flying-V, a strange new airplane design that puts passenger seats in the plane's wings.
Advanced Transport

New “Flying-V” Plane Puts Passenger Seats in the Wings

An airline is taking a chance on a radical new design.

By Kristin Houser

A new study figured out how young blood seems to revitalize older neurons. Two proteins from newborn mouse blood revitalized lab-grown human neurons.
Health & Medicine

Yeah, Young Blood Transfusions Do Seem to Fight Aging

Proteins found in mouse blood could explain this ghoulish phenomenon.

By Dan Robitzski

A distressing Australian climate change analysis has some pretty bad news: human civilization is set out to collapse by 2050 if we ignore climate change.
Climate Change

New Research: Human Civilization Will Likely Collapse By 2050

We're screwed.

By Victor Tangermann

Russian Tinder users could now having their sexts or explicit pictures turned over to the nation's government upon request.
Future Society

Russia Demands Tinder Turn Over Users’ Sexts, Pics

"Authorities want to control everything that happens online, even dating."

By Kristin Houser

The International Astronomical Union (IAU), an association made up of more than 12,000 members from across the globe, released a statement regarding concerns over SpaceX's new Starlink satellite initiative.
SpaceX

Astronomers Call for Regulation of SpaceX Starlink Satellites

Scientific breakthroughs like the first black hole image could be hindered by constellations like Starlink.

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers just got their first complete observation of a star outside of our solar system erupting plasma out into the cosmos.
Off-World

A Star Just Coughed Something Up and Scientists Want to Know Why

A distant stellar eruption launched out two quintillion pounds of plasma.

By Dan Robitzski

"Brain Talker," a computer chip designed specifically for use in brain-computer interfaces, could help the devices finally reach the mainstream.
Prosthetics and Devices

China Unveils First Chip Designed Specifically for Mind-Reading

And it could help bring brain-computer interfaces into the mainstream.

By Kristin Houser

Those Gene-Hacked Babies May Be Doomed to Die Young
Biology

Those Gene-Hacked Babies May Be Doomed to Die Young

"This is a lesson in humility."

By Dan Robitzski

Two scientists have invented a device that can create its own source of electricity from an extremely abundant and renewable source: falling snow.
Energy

New Device Generates Electricity From Falling Snow

Have you ever given yourself an electric shock by rubbing your feet against a carpet?

By Victor Tangermann

The Army is accepting bids from contractors to build a rifle that could automatically targets and scan them with facial recognition.
Facial recognition

The US Army’s Next Rifle May Use Facial Recognition

Futuristic rifles may decide who to shoot.

By Dan Robitzski

In order to pay for Artemis, NASA's upcoming 2024 Moon mission, it may have to cannibalize other parts of the space agency's budget.
Moon

NASA Is Considering Cutting Other Programs to Pay for Moon Mission

In order to put people on the Moon in 2024, NASA has to trim some fat.

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua has confirmed that a third gene-edited baby has been born as part of researcher He Jiankui's controversial experiment.
Prosthetics and Devices

New Gene-Editing Method Could Lead To “Creation of a Super-Baby”

"The technology is similar to weapons and drugs."

By Kristin Houser

In a podcast interview this weekend, Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed new details about the electric car company's long-awaited hypercar, the Roadster.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk: Tesla Will Sell Roadster With SpaceX Thrusters in 2020

"If you have 3 Gs of thrust, you can go in any direction."

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese researchers say that replacing water with atmosphere-polluting carbon dioxide could make fracking more eco-friendly.
Fossil Fuels

Fracking With CO2 Instead of Water Is Greener, Say Researchers

It could get fossil fuels out of the Earth, and trap carbon dioxide in it.

By Kristin Houser