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A New Treatment Fights Endometrial Cancer With Nanoparticles
Cancer

A New Treatment Fights Endometrial Cancer With Nanoparticles

Every year, roughly 6,000 women in the United States are diagnosed with type II endometrial cancer.

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Artificial Intelligence

A New Black Metal Album Was Just Published — and It Wasn’t Made by a Human

"Coditany of Timeness" proves that artificial intelligence can produce a truly brutal album.

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Physics

Scientists Experimentally Demonstrate the “Reversal of the Arrow of Time”

They've found an exception to the second law of thermodynamics.

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Health & Medicine

Artificial Organs: We’re Entering an Era Where Transplants Are Obsolete

"I think within ten years we won't see any more heart transplants."

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Off-World

Voyager 1 Just Fired Its Thrusters for the First Time in 37 Years

They'll extend the mission by another 2 to 3 years.

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Blockchain

Venezuela is Creating a Digital Currency to End Their Financial Crisis

The petro is being billed as the solution to the country's failing economy.

Rippling Graphene Sheets May Be the Key to Clean, Unlimited Energy
Energy

Rippling Graphene Sheets May Be the Key to Clean, Unlimited Energy

The next generation of smart devices could be powered by nano-scale power generators.

Elon Musk Loves the Idea of His Tesla Roadster Being the Falcon Heavy’s First Mars Payload
Falcon

Elon Musk Loves the Idea of His Tesla Roadster Being the Falcon Heavy’s First Mars Payload

A source told Futurism that “the Roadster payload is real" — but we'll believe it when we see it.

Breakthrough Cancer Test Identifies Which of 15 Drugs Most Likely to Eradicate Tumors
Cancer

Breakthrough Cancer Test Identifies Which of 15 Drugs Most Likely to Eradicate Tumors

The device detects 324 genetic mutations in tumors with an accuracy of about 94.6 percent.

Alien life could be on this grey moon of Saturn.
Exobiology

A Russian Billionaire, Not NASA, May Uncover Alien Life

It could take NASA more than a decade to send a mission to Enceladus.

NASA Scientist Says We Need to Stop Worrying About the Apocalypse
Science & Energy

NASA Scientist Says We Need to Stop Worrying About the Apocalypse

Nibiru is not going to collide with the Earth, because it doesn't exist.

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Health & Medicine

A Vaccine for HIV Is About to Be Tested in Thousands of People

The three-year trial could be the breakthrough we need.

Clean energy could be provided by these cows.
Energy

Toyota’s New Power Plant Will Create Clean Energy from Manure

It will be ready to go in 2020.

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Drones

Amazon’s New Drone Designed to Self-Destruct in Emergencies

Smaller pieces raining from the sky would be safer for everyone.

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Future Society

Aging Expert: The First Person to Live to 1,000 Has Already Been Born

Dr. Aubrey de Grey sees aging as a problem than can be solved through "technological intervention."

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Bitcoin

Number of Users on Coinbase Surpasses Number of Brokerage Accounts at Charles Schwab

More and more people are dabbling in cryptocurrency.

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Solar Power

Chernobyl is Slated to Become a $1.2 Million Solar Farm

The farm will provide 1 megawatt of solar energy, though there are plans to develop another 99 megawatts.

Using DNA, New Software Can Verify Identity In Minutes
Science & Energy

Using DNA, New Software Can Verify Identity In Minutes

The software works with a small portable DNA sequencer.

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Energy

Google Now Sources 100% of Its Energy From Renewables

Solar and wind now powers one of the largest tech companies in the world.

Tesla’s Giant Battery in South Australia Is Officially Switched On
Tesla

Tesla’s Giant Battery in South Australia Is Officially Switched On

It's part of a multi-million dollar plan to improve the grid.