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It Is Impossible to Predict How Humans Will Evolve
Evolution

But that doesn't mean we shouldn't try.

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Off-World

China has a number of projects it wants to complete by 2045.

New Zealand May Use Genetic Tech to Wipe Out “Undesirable” Species
Science & Energy

The proposal would have the nation using gene drives to kill off a number of mammals.

A Cancer Vaccine Was Just Injected Into Its First Patient
Cancer

Moderna Therapeutics is creating tailored vaccines for individual cancer patients.

Surprise! Georgia Tech Teaching Assistant Isn’t Human, She’s a Robot
Artificial Intelligence

A professor from Georgia Institute of Technology has been using a robot powered by IBM's Watson as a teaching assistant - and the students never noticed.

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Fossil Fuels

Perhaps as more countries make strides in green energy, the US and others will follow.

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Off-World

The messages include a science and math tutorial, and 33 short pieces of music.

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Science & Energy

This could be a radical new way to store energy.

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Bitcoin

Allowing for these changes gives Bitcoin the chance to grow and evolve.

Elon Musk: If Humans Are to Survive, We Must Merge With Machines
Elon Musk

The tech visionary thinks the best way to control machines is to become one with them.

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Artificial Intelligence

"We are in a world of shortage, but these advances will help us take on all of the top problems."

Neuroscientists Are Trying to Alter Our Brain Circuits to Eradicate Pain
Brain

By tweaking the circuits that affect our perception of pain, we may be able to end it.

solar geoengineering
Climate Change

This is geoengineering on a scale we've never seen.

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Future Society

"Alexa, open Cortana."

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Pollution

The device could help reduce the seven million deaths from air pollution seen annually.

Reducing Food Waste in Creative Ways Could Help the World’s Hunger Problem
Food

Don't toss your produce just because it's ugly.

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Health & Medicine

The operation was performed on a fetus that was 25 weeks old.

Drugs, Rape, Massacres: How AI Is Exposing Children to the Worst of Humanity
Future Society

This is a collective failure on a massive scale.

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Science & Energy

The electric vehicle also has more than 500 miles per charge.

MIT Has a Radical New Design for a Martian City
Off-World

"On Mars, our city will physically and functionally mimic a forest."