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CBD can help normalize the activity of brain regions associated with psychosis, according to new research out of King's College London.
Health & Medicine

It helps "normalize" their brain activity.

Researchers have created an AI that can predict the location of earthquake aftershocks far more accurately than the best available model.
Google

Its predictions are far more accurate than the best available model.

Most of the AV Accidents in California Are Caused By Human Drivers
Advanced Transport

AVs are much safer for everyone when humans aren't involved.

Should Evil AI Research Be Published? Five Experts Weigh In.
Artificial Intelligence

Upside: you created artificial general intelligence! Downside: it's evil.

NASA Wants Its Deep Space Gateway Habitat To Orbit The Moon By 2024
Moon

It's a very ambitious timeline. Here's how NASA plans to make it happen.

A panel of venture capitalists and other experts on financing AI startups agree: to get a truly general AI system, governments will need to step up.
Artificial Intelligence

Startups with super-narrow algorithms aren't ever going to make AGI happen.

Humanity is terrible at planning for the distant future. If we build advanced artificial intelligence, it might save us from ourselves.
Artificial Intelligence

Humans are pretty terrible at making choices that are good for us in the long term. AI could do better.

If It’s Not Animal Flesh, You Can’t Call It “Meat” in Missouri
Future Society

The state prohibits the labeling of meat alternatives as "meat."

In the Future, We’ll All Have STDs. Just like in the Past.
Health & Medicine

This is one area where we aren't making much progress.

Particle accelerators can lead to major breakthroughs in our understanding of the universe, and now, we may have a better way to create them.
Physics

Smaller, more powerful accelerators might be coming.

Y Combinator's basic income trial still doesn't have the funding it needs, so the company is pushing the program's launch to 2019.
Universal Basic Income

Basic income might not be ready for the mainstream.

Researchers have created a software program that can determine whether a military robot can right itself after toppling over.
Robotics

Good software means you can’t keep this robot down.

Researchers discover that methylene blue, an environmental pollutant, is highly efficient at storing and releasing energy.
Energy

Liquid batteries are super efficient and recharge quickly — perfect for storing energy from wind farms.

There are now two Amazon Go locations in Seattle, and both Amazon and other retailers are looking to bring cashier-less convenience stores nationwide.
Future Society

Amazon may be starting an industry-wide trend.

Researchers determine that exposure to air pollution can cause a decline in a person's cognitive ability, with older men affected the most.
Pollution

If we don't want a dumber society, we've gotta have cleaner air.

Researchers from CERN have just moved one step closer to cooling antimatter, which should make it easier for us to study the mysterious substance.
Physics

We barely know what antimatter is, and that's why we need to get a better look at it.

Japan Wants to Be the First Place Where Flying Cars Are Standard Because of Course
Advanced Transport

And it has a dream team of companies ready to help it.

Researchers have figured out a way to map the human genome in three dimensions, using enzymes to calculate a gene's distance from a cell's nucleus.
Science & Energy

If we're going to synthesize our own genome someday, we need to know where to put that double helix.

The World’s First Digital Teacher Just Debuted in New Zealand
Artificial Intelligence

Tomorrow's teachers won't all be flesh and blood.

In yet another blog post, Elon Musk elaborates on why he decided to keep Tesla public. But will he convince shareholders?
Tesla

Musk will have to contend with more scrutiny and more competition as he works furiously to meet Tesla's ambitious production goals.