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Plant-based meats are more impressive and convincing than ever. But if they're going to save the environment, governments need to help.
Environment

Unless Governments Get Involved, Plant-Based Meat Won’t Take Off

Startups might make a lot of money, but they can’t do humanitarian work on their own.

By Dan Robitzski

China just unveiled a life-size replica of its new permanently crewed space station called Tiangong. But it's not quite as big as the ISS.
Off-World

China’s New Space Station Is Called The “Heavenly Palace”

The International Space Station is about to get a new neighbor.

By Victor Tangermann

New research shows that those who are given more money become greedier and refuse to help fight climate change. The poor are left on their own.
Climate Change

To Fight Climate Change, The Poor Would Spend More Than The Rich

New research shows that the “haves” don’t pull their weight.

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX recently proved it was ready to handle caring for an injured astronaut with a rehearsal aboard its GO Searcher recovery ship.
SpaceX

SpaceX Reveals How It Would Handle an Astronaut Emergency

With spaceflight, it's never a bad idea to prepare for the worst.

By Kristin Houser

Researchers at MIT developed a machine learning model that can detect depression by analyzing speech and the way patients talk.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Can Tell If You’re Depressed by Listening to You Talk

But it won't replace a human therapist any time soon.

By Victor Tangermann

A new gadget uses machine learning to identify pollen and spores — and it could eventually give you a better sense of the air you're breathing.
Artificial Intelligence

This Gadget Tells You Exactly What Allergens You’re Inhaling

Researchers used machine learning to identify pollen and spores.

By Jon Christian

The ozone is finally healing, according to the latest version of a United Nations-backed report released every four years.
Science & Energy

Our Efforts to Heal the Ozone Layer Are Finally Paying Off

We're slowly but steadily repairing the damage we caused.

By Kristin Houser

A blue and red "Vote" poster for political apps.
Future Society

Exercise Your Civic Duty by Shaming Your Friends Into Voting

Get ready for your friends to berate you for not going out to the polls.

By Kristin Houser

A newly-discovered star in our galaxy is only 300 million years younger than the universe itself. it's older than anything scientists expected to find.
Off-World

An Ancient Star Reveals Our Galaxy Is Older Than We Thought

The star is mostly made of raw materials from the Big Bang.

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that offshore wind farms can suck the destructive energy out of hurricanes before they make landfall.
Wind

Huge Wind Farms Could Weaken Hurricanes Before They Make Landfall

Simulations show that turbines could suck destructive energy out of hurricanes.

By Jon Christian

Researchers develop a corkscrew-shaped nanobot they can guide through the dense tissue of an eyeball using a magnetic field.
Nanotech

A New Nanobot Drills Through Your Eyeball to Deliver Drugs

A teflon-like coating lets it slip right through eye tissue.

By Kristin Houser

Tim Berners-Lee, who created the world wide web in 1989, just called for online privacy regulations and restored net neutrality.
Future Society

The Inventor of the Web Says It’s Broken and Net Neutrality Can Fix It

Berners-Lee announced a new Contract for the Web to protect basic rights online.

By Dan Robitzski

General Motors just launched a contest asking the public to name its newly unveiled eBikes, which it claims will go on sale in 2019.
Science & Energy

General Motors Will Give You $10,000 to Name Its New eBike

Start racking your brain now.

By Kristin Houser

A new AI agent taught itself, using reinforcement learning, how to get dressed in the morning. The results could make animation much easier on artists.
Artificial Intelligence

Having a Bad Day? An Adorable Video Shows AI Learning to Get Dressed

Somehow, this self-dressing algorithm is all of us getting up in the morning.

By Dan Robitzski

More Robots Means Fewer Seasonal Workers for Amazon This Holiday
Artificial Intelligence

More Robots Means Fewer Seasonal Workers for Amazon This Holiday

It's not a complete robot takeover. Yet.

By Victor Tangermann

As of November 1, doctors across the U.S. are free to prescribe Epidiolex, a cannabis-derived drug, to epilepsy patients.
Health & Medicine

Doctors Can Now Prescribe FDA-Approved Drug Derived From Cannabis

A rare form of childhood epilepsy may finally meet its match.

By Kristin Houser

A giant space laser, built with mostly-existing technology, could serve as a homing beacon for any aliens that might be out there.
Exobiology

A Giant Space Laser on Earth Could Blast Messages at Alien Planets

And hey, it might work within “decades to centuries!”

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk shared a video walkthrough of the Boring Company's test tunnel in Hawthorne, CA, which will open on December 10.
Advanced Transport

Take a Virtual Ride Through the Boring Company’s First Tunnel

It's "disturbingly long," says CEO Elon Musk.

By Kristin Houser

Jaguar Land Rover is working on a system to prevent riders in autonomous vehicles (AVs) from experiencing motion sickness.
Advanced Transport

A Major Automaker Is Trying to Stop AVs From Making People Sick

It claims it can reduce the effects of car sickness by 60 percent.

By Kristin Houser

The future of architecture could be knitted concrete, a technique in which a textile serves as the basis for a concrete structure.
Science & Energy

Watch the First Knitted Concrete Structure Take Shape

Textiles could give builders materials with previously unattainable levels of flexibility.

By Kristin Houser