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Australian astronaut Andy Thomas believes the spaceplane designed by Virgin Galactic is not well-suited to get humans to space.
NASA

Former NASA Astronaut: Virgin Galactic’s Space Flights Are “Dangerous”

"As a technology to get humans out into space, it's a go-nowhere, dead-end technology."

UNICEF announced a one month old child born in Cook's Bay on Erromango Island received the world's first drone-delivered vaccine.
Drones

A Child Was Immunized By the World’s First Drone-Delivered Vaccine

The drone had to fly more than 24 miles of mountainous terrain.

An AI gender gap is emerging, with far more men than women possessing skills and holding senior positions in the artificial intelligence industry.
Artificial Intelligence

Report Finds Huge Gender Gap in Artificial Intelligence Workforce

Only 22 percent of professionals with AI skills are female.

Thanks to its partnership with startup Nuro, supermarket chain Kroger is starting to make deliveries via its autonomous bots without any drivers.
Self-Driving Vehicles

U.S. Grocer Kroger Has Begun Making Autonomous Deliveries

No safety driver required.

A dementia reversal treatment is moving from animal testing to human safety trials thanks to $10 million in funding from the Australian government.
Treatments

Treatment to Reverse Alzheimer’s Symptoms Moving to Human Trials

Australia is spending $10 million to test the drug-free therapy.

A new model for backwards time travel debunks one of the main reasons scientists assumed it was possible. But that doesn't make it any easier.
Physics

A New Model Debunks a Popular Argument Against Time Travel

A time machine wouldn't need to have negative mass, as many physicists believe.

Boyan Slat, the 24-year-old behind the Ocean Cleanup, is confident that his plastic-corralling barrier could still work despite initial issues.
Pollution

Ocean Cleanup Barrier Isn’t Catching Plastic, but Could Be Soon

The project's 24-year-old founder is still hopeful.

Trump Signs Order to Create a U.S. Space Command
Off-World

Trump Signs Order to Create a U.S. Space Command

The first U.S. Space Command was founded in 1985 and disbanded in 2002.

SpaceIL's privately funded lunar lander won't launch aboard a Falcon 9 until February, and SpaceX gave the company no explanation for the two-month delay.
SpaceX

SpaceX Delays Launch of First Private Lunar Lander Without Explanation

It has pushed the launch by two months.

New self-assembling molecular networks can take away several challenges from atomic-scale data storage.
Science & Energy

Self-Organizing Molecules Could Store Data in Individual Atoms

New research makes existing atomic-scale storage tech much simpler.

Mutated Animals Show Why Gene Editing Isn’t Ready for Human Trials
Gene Editing

Mutated Animals Show Why Gene Editing Isn’t Ready for Human Trials

CRISPR isn't ready for humans when it's giving animals enlarged tongues and extra vertebrae.

A new timeline compares Elon Musk's predictions for the future with community-aggregated guesses on how space travel and electric vehicles will progress.
Elon Musk

This Site Keeps Track of Elon Musk’s Predictions About The Future

Musk makes a lot of predictions. This site is keeping track.

Police in London will conduct another trial of their highly inaccurate facial recognition technology, the seventh since 2016.
Facial recognition

Denying Facial Recognition Scan Won’t Raise Red Flags, Say Police

Trials of inaccurate facial recognition tech continue in London.

Astronomers Just Found a Dwarf Planet Three Times As Far Away As Pluto
Off-World

Astronomers Just Found a Dwarf Planet Three Times As Far Away As Pluto

It's the most distant body ever spotted orbiting the Sun.

A Delivery Robot Burst Into Flames in California
Robotics

A Delivery Robot Burst Into Flames in California

The company claims a defective battery was to blame.

Tesla's new "Toilet Humor" and "Romance Mode" features allow owners to make their Teslas fart and play Marvin Gaye. Why?
Tesla

Tesla’s “Toilet Humor” Mode Is Real and It’s Called “Emissions Testing”

Just in time for the holidays.

SpaceX has shattered the record for commercial rocket launches in a year, at 20. That beats the prior record of 18 launches in a year — which it also set.
SpaceX

SpaceX Smashed the Record for Commercial Space Launches This Year

It's been a banner year for Elon Musk's SpaceX.

Tesla's upcoming Megapack energy storage system will be twelve times as powerful at the Powerpack 2, a colossal step up for Tesla's energy ambitions.
Tesla

New Details About Tesla’s Gargantuan “Megapack” Power Storage Unit

It's 12 times as powerful as its predecessor.

A nuclear-powered tunneling bot could burrow through Europa's icy shell to probe its composition and, potentially, access the watery darkness under it.
Exobiology

NASA’s Nuclear-Powered Tunneling Bot Could Hunt for Life on Europa

This fearsome probe would make short work of Europa's thick icy shell.

Christianity takes on VR: Christians are using VR to preach to virtual congregations and experience Biblical stories in immersive 360-degree video.
Virtual Reality

HTC Thinks Virtual Reality’s Killer App Could Be Christianity

Christians adapted radio and rock music. Maybe VR will be next.