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Researchers from Ghent University have figured out a way to store data in a powder, and it could help us move away from magnetic storage solutions.
Chemistry

We Can Now Store Data in the Form of a Powder

It could be the storage medium of the future.

By Kristin Houser

MIT wants to allow internet users to give commands to a real-life hired actor on Halloween. Terrible idea or fascinating social experiment?
Virtual Reality

MIT Will Let You Control a Real-Life Actor By Giving Them Commands

The internet can tell them what to do — within limits.

By Victor Tangermann

AI-Generated Halloween Music Is a Cool Idea, But it Sounds Awful
Artificial Intelligence

AI-Generated Halloween Music Is a Cool Idea, But it Sounds Awful

Scary movie soundtracks are better left to the human composers.

By Victor Tangermann

JD.com's 40,000-square-meter automated warehouse is run completely by robots. The only human employs simply service the bots.
Future Society

Take a Look at the World’s First Fully Automated Warehouse

The only human employees simply service the robots.

By Kristin Houser

Veloce, a new astronomical tool that can spot Earth-sized planets tightly orbiting dim stars, was just installed in an Australian observatory.
Exoplanets

This Upgraded Telescope Hunts Exoplanets Orbiting Dim Stars

Astronomers can find more potentially-habitable planets than ever before.

By Dan Robitzski

The White House AI Task Force Wants To Open the AI Floodgates. Here’s How They Should Do It.
Artificial Intelligence

The White House AI Task Force Wants To Open the AI Floodgates. Here’s How They Should Do It.

Before giving tech companies free rein, the government should install some safeguards.

By Dan Robitzski

An eye scan that provides detailed images of the retina and blood vessels could help us detect Alzheimer's disease before symptoms appear.
Health & Medicine

An Eye Scan Could Detect Alzheimer’s Before Symptoms Appear

We've been looking for a cheap, non-invasive screening method. This could be it.

By Kristin Houser

NASA announced Tuesday that the Kepler Space Telescope, which has been orbiting Earth and looking for exoplanets since 2009, ran out of fuel. RIP.
NASA

NASA: Kepler Space Telescope is Out of Fuel

So ends the telescope’s planet-seeking mission.

By Dan Robitzski

A new type of battery might give small planes enough of a boost to take off and complete short-range flights without using any fossil fuels.
Advanced Transport

New Battery Tech Could Power a Flight from San Francisco to Los Angeles

Electric passenger planes could finally be practical.

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's Parker Solar Probe just broke the world records for closest approach to the Sun and fastest speed relative to the Sun.
Solar Power

NASA’s Solar Probe Just Broke Two World Records

78 days after launch, it's already making the record books.

By Kristin Houser

Google just announced a $25 million contest that asks people to develop AI systems that actually benefit society for a change.
Google

Google Wants You to Build AI That Benefits Society

The “AI for Social Good” contest has a prize pool of $25 million.

By Dan Robitzski

Bitcoin mining alone has the potential to push us past the global warming limits set by the Paris Agreement, according to a new report.
Bitcoin

Bitcoin Mining Will Only Cause a Climate Catastrophe if We Let It

Our climate problem is bigger than one source of CO2.

By Kristin Houser

You can use a tablet screen to give instructions to this idiot-proof helicopter, which uses LIDAR and cameras to take off, land and avoid obstacles.
DARPA

You Can Fly DARPA’s Idiot-Proof Helicopter With 45 Mins of Training

You literally give it flight instructions on a tablet.

By Jon Christian

There's a lot of space junk orbiting the planet. The Air Force just put out a call for high-tech ways to keep track of it all.
Off-World

The Air Force Wants Your Help Guarding Satellites From Space Junk

The military put $100,000 in prize money on the line.

By Dan Robitzski

artificial moon
Moon

There’s No Way China’s Artificial Moon Will Work, Says Expert

One aerospace engineer sees major flaws in the plan.

By Kristin Houser

Scientists want to craft an updated version of the Arecibo Message, a radio communication that marked humanity's first attempt to talk to aliens.
Exobiology

Scientists Want Your Help Crafting a Message to Aliens

They want to update humanity's most famous message to ET.

By Kristin Houser

We need to do something to address the problem of air pollution, according to the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO).
Pollution

WHO Director: Air Pollution Is the “New Tobacco”

“The world has turned the corner on tobacco. Now it must do the same for the 'new tobacco.'" 

By Kristin Houser

A retroactive look at a two year old study suggests that a type of photosynthetic bacteria interacted with individual photons at the quantum scale.
Physics

Scientists May Have Put Microbes in a State of Quantum Entanglement

This could be the first time we've observed a living organism in the quantum realm.

By Dan Robitzski

Walmart-owned retail store chain Sam's Club announced it will open a cashier-less store in Dallas, Texas. But it will still employ human staff.
Future Society

Walmart Is Opening a Store With Zero Cashiers

But it's no Amazon Go experience.

By Victor Tangermann

A Spanish company has figured out how to turn raw sewage into clean energy in the form of a coal-like fuel that burns without giving off carbon dioxide.
Energy

Clean Coal Startup Turns Human Waste Into Earth-Friendly Fuel

We're wiping our way to a cleaner future.

By Dan Robitzski