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From Quarks to Quasars

Devil’s Kettle Falls: The Falls to Nowhere

Robotics

We Have No Idea What Having Sex With Robots Might Do to Us

We should probably figure that out before everyone starts doing it.

Boston Dynamics

Boston Dynamics’ Robot Just Went For A Cool Jog In The Garden, Like It’s No Big Deal

The sentience wars continue.

Science & Energy

Biologists Plan to Bring the Woolly Mammoth Back to Life by 2019

We have reached the stage where we can resurrect extinct species.

Health & Medicine

An Injection of Salt in Your Eardrum Might Save You From a Lifetime of Hearing Loss

It's worth the needle to the eardrum.

Space

The 10 Most Significant Scientific Discoveries Of the Year (So Far)

It's proving to be one of the best years of the century, and we're barely halfway through.

Cryptocurrency

The Digest: Ripple Is Giving Away Its Cryptocurrency to Get People to Use It

One way to get people to use a currency? Make sure they have a lot of it.

Mars

Why Live on Earth When You Can Live in a Hole on Mars? No, Really.

We might not have any other choice.

Bitcoin

Here’s The Conspiracy Tearing Bitcoin Crypto Communities Apart

Here is the secret meaning behind the mysterious 21e8.

Climate Change

No Existing Policies Will Be Enough To Prevent A Future “Hothouse Earth”

We'll need to do more than simply decrease emissions.

Prosthetics and Devices

Exoskeletons are About to Walk Ford’s Factory Floors

Jobs haven't all gone to the robots, yet.

Prosthetics and Devices

The Pentagon Tells Soldiers To Stop Sharing Their Locations With Apps

A new memo comes eight months after fitness trackers revealed the layout of military bases all over the world.

Virtual Reality

Magic Leap’s Disappointing Demo Could Be A Death Knell For AR

$2.3 billion, four years, and not much to show for it.

Tesla

Turns Out Musk Might Actually Be Serious About Taking Tesla Private

Seems like you can believe Twitter sometimes.

Blockchain

Some Americans Will Get to Vote via Blockchain This November

West Virginia is taking a chance on blockchain voting.

Future Society

Researchers Inadvertently Discover Crypto Scam Involving 15,000 Twitter Bots

The scam is still going on.

Physics

Figuring out How Fast the Universe Is Expanding Might Require a New Type of Physics

Two new studies contradict each other. Under our current model, they can't both be right.

Hacking

That Hack of the FCC’s Comment Section Last Year? It Never Actually Happened, Agency Admits

Sike.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo’s Phoenix Project Could Tell Us If Self-Driving Cars Can Improve Public Transportation

Autonomous vehicles and public transportation could be allies.

Google

Google Maps Now (Accurately) Shows that Earth is Round

The Earth is round. Now it looks that way on Google Maps.