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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.

A new gadget uses machine learning to identify pollen and spores — and it could eventually give you a better sense of the air you're breathing.
Artificial Intelligence

This Gadget Tells You Exactly What Allergens You’re Inhaling

Researchers used machine learning to identify pollen and spores.

The ozone is finally healing, according to the latest version of a United Nations-backed report released every four years.
Science & Energy

Our Efforts to Heal the Ozone Layer Are Finally Paying Off

We're slowly but steadily repairing the damage we caused.

A blue and red "Vote" poster for political apps.
Future Society

Exercise Your Civic Duty by Shaming Your Friends Into Voting

Get ready for your friends to berate you for not going out to the polls.

A newly-discovered star in our galaxy is only 300 million years younger than the universe itself. it's older than anything scientists expected to find.
Off-World

An Ancient Star Reveals Our Galaxy Is Older Than We Thought

The star is mostly made of raw materials from the Big Bang.

New research suggests that offshore wind farms can suck the destructive energy out of hurricanes before they make landfall.
Wind

Huge Wind Farms Could Weaken Hurricanes Before They Make Landfall

Simulations show that turbines could suck destructive energy out of hurricanes.

Researchers develop a corkscrew-shaped nanobot they can guide through the dense tissue of an eyeball using a magnetic field.
Nanotech

A New Nanobot Drills Through Your Eyeball to Deliver Drugs

A teflon-like coating lets it slip right through eye tissue.

Tim Berners-Lee, who created the world wide web in 1989, just called for online privacy regulations and restored net neutrality.
Future Society

The Inventor of the Web Says It’s Broken and Net Neutrality Can Fix It

Berners-Lee announced a new Contract for the Web to protect basic rights online.