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Researchers from the University of Minnesota created a bionic eye prototype that marks an important step forward toward the creation of usable devices.
Prosthetics and Devices

This Experimental Bionic Eye Could Help The Blind See

It could also improve the vision of people who can see.

By Kristin Houser

NASA released a video illustrating the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere due to abrupt thawing in the Arctic.
Climate Change

Greenhouse Gases Are Bubbling Up From Arctic Lakes That Were Recently Frozen

The lakes are thawing the arctic way faster than we expected.

By Kristin Houser

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Future Society

How Women-Startup Founders Are Building Better Cities [Sponsored]

Yes, the future is female.

By Futurism Creative

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

We Now Have Evidence That a Marijuana Compound Can Help People With Psychosis

It helps "normalize" their brain activity.

By Kristin Houser

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

Google’s AI Can Help Predict Where Earthquake Aftershocks Are Most Likely

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

By Kristin Houser

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

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

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

By Kristin Houser

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

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

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

By Dan Robitzski

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

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

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

By Victor Tangermann

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

If We Ever Want Artificial General Intelligence, Governments Need To Invest In It

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

By Dan Robitzski

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

Advanced Artificial Intelligence Could Run The World Better Than Humans Ever Could

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

By Dan Robitzski

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

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

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

By Kristin Houser

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

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

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

By Kristin Houser

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

An Acceleration Breakthrough Could Fundamentally Change How We Study Particles

Smaller, more powerful accelerators might be coming.

By Kristin Houser

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

Y Combinator’s Basic Income Experiment Is off to a Slow Start

Basic income might not be ready for the mainstream.

By Kristin Houser

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

The Military’s Newest Tool Will Make Sure A Robot Can Get up by Itself After It Falls

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

By Kristin Houser

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

This Industrial Blue Dye Could Help Us Build Better Batteries

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

By Kristin Houser

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’s Cashier-Free Stores Are Going National. And It Might Just Change the Future of Retail.

Amazon may be starting an industry-wide trend.

By Kristin Houser

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

Dumber Humans — That’s Just One Effect of a More Polluted Future

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

By Kristin Houser

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’re Almost Able to Cool Antimatter. Here’s Why That’s a Big Deal.

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

By Kristin Houser

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

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

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

By Kristin Houser