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The Pentagon is currently testing a system that would let smartphones lock out users if it doesn't recognize their gait or grip.
Artificial Intelligence

New Pentagon Tech Unlocks Smartphone Based on Your Gait

The DoD will finish testing the system in two months.

By Dan Robitzski

Documents list several Chinese government agencies as the funding sources for the CRISPR babies experiments conducted by He Jiankui.
Prosthetics and Devices

China May Have Helped Fund Gene-Hacked Babies Experiment

"It’s unlikely that He acted alone."

By Kristin Houser

For the first time outside of China, a clinic is using CRISPR gene editing techniques to treat someone in a clinical trial.
Health & Medicine

Western Biotech Firm Treats First Patient With CRISPR

CRISPR Therapeutics used the technique to treat someone with a serious blood disease.

By Dan Robitzski

Europe's rocket manufacturer Ariane Group and French space agency CNES came up with a new universalized "acceleration platform" called "ArianeWorks."
SpaceX

Europe’s New Reusable Rocket Design Borrows Heavily From SpaceX

"To be fair, the European rocket builders have not sought to hide their emulation of SpaceX."

By Victor Tangermann

Lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez noted in an Instagram Live video that young people might wonder if it's OK to have children in the face of climate change.
Climate Change

AOC: Facing Down Climate Change, Should We “Still Have Children?”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez questioned climate change's impact on family planning.

By Kristin Houser

Cosmologists have long sought to reconcile differences among calculations and observations of how fast the universe is growing. A new idea may explain how.
Physics

Bizarre New Theory: Something Tampered With the Early Universe

Did a mysterious energy field mess with the universe?

By Dan Robitzski

After problems with its navigation system, Israeli lunar lander ran into another serious glitch after its first maneuver: an unexpected computer reboot.
Moon

Israeli Moon Lander Hits Serious Glitch in Orbit

It's not the first problem the world's first commercial lunar lander has encountered so far.

By Victor Tangermann

A new analysis shows that there's only a one-in-a-million chance that climate change could have been caused by anything other than humanity.
Climate Change

Scientists Are 99.9999 Percent Sure Humans Caused Climate Change

"The narrative out there that scientists don’t know the cause of climate change is wrong. We do."

By Dan Robitzski

Virgin Galactic released some incredible high-definition footage of its space plane VSS Unity's second flight into space.
Off-World

Check Out This Stunning Footage of Virgin Galactic’s Space Plane

"Welcome to the club, astronauts!"

By Victor Tangermann

A Russian journalist shared a map of Russia's nuclear targets in the United States if the U.S. or its allies decided to strike first.
Future Society

Russian Media Says Kremlin Would Nuke These U.S. Targets First

"For now, we’re not threatening anyone, but if such a deployment takes place, our response will be instant."

By Kristin Houser

British design company Layer has partnered with Airbus to come up with an economy seat design that delivers on comfort and even fuel efficiency.
Advanced Transport

These Futuristic Airplane Seats Could Make Flying Economy Better

Here's why they won't recline.

By Victor Tangermann

SEC Threatens Elon Musk With Legal Action Over New Tweet
Elon Musk

SEC Threatens Elon Musk With Legal Action Over New Tweet

Musk lashed out in response: "Something is broken with SEC oversight."

By Victor Tangermann

A new space imaging system could prevent satellite collisions by monitoring the sky with unprecedented resolution during daylight hours.
Off-World

“Game-Changing” Camera Could Prevent Satellite Collisions

"The risk of collision between debris, satellites, and spacecraft is real."

By Kristin Houser

U.S. cities are burning the recyclables that they used to ship to China, and the emissions could be wreaking havoc on Americans' health.
Science & Energy

US Cities Have Nowhere to Send Recyclables, so They’re Burning Them

China’s import ban is threatening the health of Americans.

By Kristin Houser

In order to better understand how smartphone use correlates with mental health in adolescents, scientists want to access Google and Apple's data stashes.
Brain

Google and Apple Can Help Learn How Phones Affect Kids’ Brains

Scientists have questions, tech giants have data.

By Dan Robitzski

A man died from his burns after crashing a 2016 Tesla Model S into a tree in Miami, Florida yesterday afternoon, local news report.
Tesla

Report: In Fatal Crash, Door Handles Fail on Burning Tesla

Witnesses report that the door handles didn't work as the car burned.

By Victor Tangermann

New research explains the role of cloud cover in climate change. If we keep burning fossil fuels, the clouds will go away and climate change will worsen.
Climate Change

Climate Change Is Eliminating Clouds. Without Them, Earth Burns

"It would mean the end of human civilization in its current form."

By Dan Robitzski

Startup Magic Leap envisions a future in which digital layers blanket the physical world — but building this "Magicverse" won't be easy.
Virtual Reality

Magic Leap Wants to Build AR “Layers” Over The Entire Earth

It envisions a "Magicverse" that could "erode space and time boundaries."

By Kristin Houser

The Boring Company’s Chicago Tunnel Project Might Soon be Dead
Advanced Transport

The Boring Company’s Chicago Tunnel Project Might Soon be Dead

"If you look at Elon Musk’s career — he comes off as a grifter."

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook's content moderators work under grueling conditions and are often traumatized by the videos they have to watch and remove.
Meta

Facebook Mods Are so Traumatized They’re Getting High at Work

"We’d go down and get stoned and go back to work. That’s not professional."

By Dan Robitzski