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This Week in Science: Sept 22-28
Space

This Week in Science: Sept 22-28

Robotic asteroid landers, lab-grown human egg cells, electrical physical therapy, and more.

By Victor Tangermann

Ludicrous Mode: SEC Sues Elon Musk, Causing a Quick Drop in Tesla Stock
Elon Musk

Ludicrous Mode: SEC Sues Elon Musk, Causing a Quick Drop in Tesla Stock

The Tesla CEO's tweets are coming back to bite him.

By Kristin Houser

Preventing bird collisions with planes and other manmade objects could be as simply as adding red or blue LEDs to our creations.
Science & Energy

Planes Kill Huge Numbers of Birds. LEDs Could Save Their Lives.

This simple solution could help our feathered friends survive the skies.

By Kristin Houser

By labeling edited social media photos as edited, we could decrease thin ideal internalization, the belief that a woman would be better if she were thinner.
Future Society

Labelling Edited Selfies on Social Media Might Make Us Less Miserable

One easy trick to make social media a little less damaging.

By Kristin Houser

This robotic finger attaches to a smartphone or tablet, allowing the device to crawl itself across a table or stroke the back of a user's hand.
Robots and Machines

Look at This Creepy Finger You Can Plug Into Your Smartphone

If the future includes smartphones with fingers, count us out.

By Kristin Houser

Breaking: Hackers Accessed 50 Million Facebook Accounts
Hacking

Breaking: Hackers Accessed 50 Million Facebook Accounts

It's been a rough year for the social giant.

By Jon Christian

A team of Chinese researchers has created software that can predict whether a coma patient will wake up or not. Can it replace human decision-making?
Machine Learning

Should Coma Patients Live or Die? Machine Learning Will Help Decide.

An algorithm is helping Chinese researchers determine if a coma patient will wake up again.

By Victor Tangermann

In a Shift, Apple and Amazon Say They Are in Favor of Federal Privacy Regulation
Privacy

In a Shift, Apple and Amazon Say They Are in Favor of Federal Privacy Regulation

But it's not what it seems.

By Victor Tangermann

Paint it Clear: This Coating Could Make Your AC Obsolete
Science & Energy

Paint it Clear: This Coating Could Make Your AC Obsolete

If the Sun is too hot, reflect it back.

By Kristin Houser

If We Want Drone Delivery To Be A Reality, We’ve Gotta Keep It Simple
Drones

If We Want Drone Delivery To Be A Reality, We’ve Gotta Keep It Simple

It's already happening in Iceland, while Amazon lags behind.

By Jon Christian

Glimpse: How An Army of Resurrected Mammoths Could Curb Global Warming
Global Warming

Glimpse: How An Army of Resurrected Mammoths Could Curb Global Warming

Genetic engineering isn't known for its ability to scale.

By Luke Kingma

An international team of scientists just announced their strategy for trying to figure out whether Mars can support life.
Mars

Scientists Need to Solve These Two Mysteries to Find Life on Mars

Scientists laid out the next steps in the search for extraterrestrial life.

By Dan Robitzski

A high-tech suit vibrates to let users feel music — a new way for everyone to experience sound, according to its creators, but especially for deaf people.
Prosthetics and Devices

Make Music A Full Body Experience With A “Vibro-Tactile” Suit

Everyone can try synesthesia with a suit that translates music into touch.

By Jon Christian

Automation is eating into food and hospitality jobs. Unions are demanding measures that will protect staff from being replaced by robots.
Artificial Intelligence

Robots Are Coming for Service Jobs

Hotels want robots to be your bellhop. Human bellhops: uh hello?

By Jon Christian

Nuclear Power Used to Seem Like the Future. Now Its Fate in the US Is in Question.
Nuclear Fusion

Nuclear Power Used to Seem Like the Future. Now Its Fate in the US Is in Question.

There are good things about nuclear power. But it's definitely fallen out of fashion.

By Jon Christian

For the first time ever, researchers have discovered radio jets launching from a neutron star with a strong magnetic field.
Science & Energy

Astronomers Discover a New Source of Spectacular Radio Jets

"For the first time ever, we have observed a jet coming from a neutron star with a very strong magnetic field."

By Kristin Houser

MIT researchers have created Fiberbots, autonomous robots that can weave fiberglass into tall tubes that we could one day use for construction projects.
Robotics

These Robots Weave Super Durable Fiberglass Structures So Humans Don’t Have To

They could be used to build large structures like bridges or shelters in space.

By Kristin Houser

A new NIH program aims to sequence the DNA of a million volunteers, to better understand genetic variation between people and develop new treatments.
Health & Medicine

Everyone’s Genome Is Different. That’s Why Scientists Are About to Sequence a Million of Them.

It's the Human Genome Project — times a million.

By Jon Christian

This week, Philippine inventor Kyxz Mendiola took his Koncepto Milenya, a flying sports car prototype, out for its first public test flight.
Drones

This “Flying Sports Car” Is Like a Giant Drone You Can Ride In

The first test ride lasted 10 minutes, and "everything worked perfect.”

By Kristin Houser

Researchers in Hong Kong have invented a robot that looks like a caterpillar. It's designed to travel through your body and release drugs.
Medical

Scientists Want to Put a Horrifying Caterpillar Robot Inside Your Body

Its legs have good traction on "different tissues inside the human body."

By Jon Christian