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Medical

This New Device Turns Your Smartphone Into a Medical Lab

The cheap device can help serve patients in rural areas around the world.

Cancer

Study Shows That “Liquid Biopsies” Could Lead to Faster Cancer Detection

These blood tests could detect cancer before any symptoms surface.

Health & Medicine

Scientists Still Don’t Fully Understand the Connection Between Obesity and Depression

Discovering the link could solve a $350 billion problem.

OpenAI

Elon Musk’s OpenAI Created a Bot That Can Beat the World’s Best eSports Players

The bot's ability to win is indicative of the increasing power of AI systems.

Nuclear Fusion

Russia Claims It’s Building a Nuclear Space Bomber Capable of Striking Any Country in the World

Future Society

Rethinking Elevators Could Transform Cities as We Know Them

Who needs cables?

Future Society

You Can Now Buy Genetically Engineered Salmon in Canada

After 25 years of controversy, GM salmon fillets are being sold as food in Canada.

Hyperloop

We Are Closer Than Ever to Achieving the Hyperloop – But Not the One We First Imagined

More recent designs closely resemble high-speed trains.

Bitcoin

What Would Happen if Cryptocurrency Became More Popular Than Cash?

It would forever change how our society spends and saves.

NASA

NASA’s Voyager Spacecrafts Are Still Going Strong 40 Years Later

Voyager 1's last postcard from interstellar space will reach us by 2040.

Tesla

Experts Are Divided on the Future Impact of Tesla

But at the very least, the company has changed the present.

Universal Basic Income

Slack CEO Voices His Support for Universal Basic Income

UBI has some powerful people backing it.

Cancer

New Research Shows That This HPV Vaccine Could Prevent 93% of Cervical Cancers

Making this vaccine available everywhere could save thousands of lives annually.

Science & Energy

Researchers Develop Bendable Batteries That Could Make Implants and Wearables Safer

They’re flexible and don’t contain corrosive chemicals.

Science & Energy

Can the Human Eye Detect Single Photons?

The answer will shape the way sensors and similar technologies are developed.

Chemistry

Researchers Used CRISPR to Manipulate the Social Activities of Ants

This could reveal more about disorders that affect social communication, like depression or schizophrenia.

Tesla

Leaked Emails: Tesla Will Soon Test “Platoons” of Electric, Driverless Trucks on Public Roads

Tesla's powerful batteries could give them a leg up on the competition.

Cryptocurrency

China Just Used a Quantum Satellite to Send Data from Space to Earth

This could create a future of unhackable data.

Tesla

Tesla Planning Major Expansion of its Charging Network Over the Next Few Months

Musk is addressing one of his main complaints.

Health & Medicine

New Research Suggests Memory Loss in Alzheimer’s Patients May be Reversible

LED lights may be the answer.