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Scientists say a new map of how structures of dark matter have grown throughout the life of the universe could upend current understanding of physics.
Physics

New Map of Dark Matter Breaks Scientists’ Understanding of Physics

"The results appear to challenge current understanding of the fundamental laws of physics."

By Jon Christian

NASA is Finally Ready to Say Goodbye to its Opportunity Rover
NASA

NASA is Finally Ready to Say Goodbye to its Opportunity Rover

RIP Opportunity rover, 2003-2018.

By Victor Tangermann

A new design for artificial leaves could make it possible to finally bring the technology out of the lab and into the "real world."
Renewable Energy

New Artificial Leaf Design Could Absorb Far More CO2

Researchers say it's ten times as efficient as a natural leaf.

By Kristin Houser

Los Angeles Axes Plan For Billions of Dollars In Fossil Fuel Investments
Climate Change

Los Angeles Axes Plan For Billions of Dollars In Fossil Fuel Investments

"This is the Green New Deal. Not in concept, not in the future, but now."

By Dan Robitzski

Climate change has melted the ice traditionally inhabited by polar bears, forcing the animals to invade a small Russian settlement in search of food.
Climate Change

Polar Bears Are Terrorizing a Russian Town Due to Climate Change

They're chasing residents, staring down dogs, and feasting on garbage.

By Kristin Houser

Researchers from Colorado State University created a robot that can melt and re-harden parts of its skeleton to adapt to new challenges.
Robotics

See a Robot Melt Its Own Bones to Avoid Obstacles

That's pretty metal.

By Kristin Houser

Former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly announced Tuesday that he's running for Senate in Arizona — and positioned himself as a defender of science.
NASA

NASA Astronaut Runs for Senate, Warns Of “Retreat From Science”

"There are a lot of powerful interests who want to stop us."

By Jon Christian

Researchers at ETH Zurich designed a robot that can teach itself how to ice skate. It could one day be used during search and rescue missions.
Robotics

Watch an Ice Skating Robot Play Hockey

"The only thing we tell it is how one ice skate behaves on ice."

By Victor Tangermann

A team of security researchers found a flaw in Xiaomi's M365 electric scooter. They were able to remotely control a scooter in a matter of hours.
Advanced Transport

Hackers Can Access Your Electric Scooter While You’re Riding It

Xiaomi’s M365 scooter has a security bug that lets a hacker control the throttle and brakes.

By Dan Robitzski

A newly released Pentagon report details the laser weapons likely in development by China and Russia to attack U.S. satellites.
Off-World

Pentagon Warns That Enemies Could Shoot US Satellites With Lasers

China and Russia are "likely" developing "laser weapons to disrupt, degrade, or damage satellites."

By Kristin Houser

Resarchers suggest that we will need larger rockets to land heavy payloads on the surface of Mars rather than bigger parachutes.
Mars

New Idea to Land Heavy Payloads on Mars: Dive, Then Turn Nose Up

Please put your seatbacks and tray tables in upright position.

By Victor Tangermann

A Tesla owner claims his car crashed because he wasn't able to disengage its Autopilot feature, but Tesla isn't buying his excuse.
Tesla

Tesla Driver Claims Autopilot Wouldn’t Let Him Prevent Crash

Tesla isn’t buying his story.

By Kristin Houser

Apple Patented Facial Recognition to Unlock Your Car
Facial recognition

Apple Patented Facial Recognition to Unlock Your Car

The patent was filed before massive layoffs at Apple’s self-driving car division.

By Dan Robitzski

IBM's Project Debater, an AI system that composes arguments, recently lost a debate to a world-renowned human debating expert.
Artificial Intelligence

A Human Debater Just Roasted IBM’s “Intelligent Debate” AI Onstage

Project Debater can formulate arguments, but can’t quite refute opponents.

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers from the First Light Fusion group in Oxford are planning to demonstrate fusion by mid-2019 and the creation of fusion energy by 2024.
Energy

This Startup Wants Its Fusion Reactor to Actually Produce Power

And they just powered it on for the first time.

By Victor Tangermann

Doctors have implanted the first wireless heart pump in a patient, eliminating the need for him to be connected to a power source via a driveline.
Health & Medicine

New Bionic Heart Charges Wirelessly Inside Patient’s Chest

A 24-year-old man is the first in the world to receive this type of implant.

By Kristin Houser

A team of UK scientists are building a robot called Ai-Da that can sketch and draw the way she sees the world around her.
Artificial Intelligence

A Fleshy New Humanoid Sketches You, Mimics Your Facial Expressions

Her first art pieces will go on display in a gallery in November.

By Victor Tangermann

A combination of molecules could making repairing the brain damage caused by Alzheimer's disease and other brain injuries as easy as swallowing a pill.
Brain

New Drug Combo Could Repair the Brains of Alzheimer’s Patients

Repairing brain damage could one day be as simple as taking a pill.

By Kristin Houser

The FDA Is Trying to Figure out How to Regulate Smart Pills
Medical

The FDA Is Trying to Figure out How to Regulate Smart Pills

Newly-proposed guidelines say sensor-equipped pills are devices or pharmaceuticals but not both.

By Dan Robitzski

Anonymous contractors at Apple's so-called "black site," a low-key office for Apple Maps development, described grim working conditions.
Future Society

Apple Runs A “Black Site” That a Worker Called “Dehumanizing”

“It was made pretty plain to us that we were at-will employees and they would fire us at any time,”

By Dan Robitzski