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Scientists Discover 3 New “Super-Earth” Exoplanets
Exoplanets

Scientists Discover 3 New “Super-Earth” Exoplanets

These are the closest planets yet discovered by the Kepler K2 mission.

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Investing

The World’s Biggest Smartphone Maker Is Investing $300 Million in Autonomous Car Tech

The auto and tech industries are driving us into the future together.

Why Asteroid Mining is Integral to Our Plans for Colonizing Mars
Mars

Why Asteroid Mining is Integral to Our Plans for Colonizing Mars

Deep Space Industries and Planetary Resources are competing to see who can do it first.

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Off-World

It’s Official: Cassini Just Completed Its Death Dive Into Saturn

The spacecraft has burned up in Saturn's atmosphere.

This New Vaccine Technology Could Make Multiple Injections a Thing of the Past
Health & Medicine

This New Vaccine Technology Could Make Multiple Injections a Thing of the Past

Can you get all of your vaccines in one shot?

90 Percent of Vehicles in the U.S. Could Be Electric by the Early 2040s
Advanced Transport

90 Percent of Vehicles in the U.S. Could Be Electric by the Early 2040s

A new study projects that fast adoption of EVs could make them the norm within a little over a decade.

A $10 Billion Renewable Energy Startup Just Unveiled Their Largest Onshore Wind Turbine
Wind

A $10 Billion Renewable Energy Startup Just Unveiled Their Largest Onshore Wind Turbine

This one turbine could power 5,000 homes.

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Renewable Energy

Today, California Will Vote on a Bill Pushing for 100% Renewable Energy by 2045

The Golden State is going green.

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Artificial Intelligence

Suing Equifax After the Data Breach? A Chatbot Could Help With the Paperwork

Lawsuits are soon to follow the recent announcement that the credit reporting agency was hacked.

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Health & Medicine

Potential Vaccine and Oral Medication for Alzheimer’s Disease in Human Trials

Both interventions focus on preventing the buildup of amyloid plaques in the brain.

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Advanced Transport

This Video Compilation of SpaceX’s Failed Landings Shows They’ve Embraced Lessons Learned

To get to space, you first have to learn how not to get to space.

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Treatments

New In-Utero Treatment Could Prevent One of the World’s Most Common Birth Defects

It could end the need for children to undergo painful surgeries.

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Science & Energy

Researchers Have Linked a Human Brain to the Internet for the First Time Ever

Welcome to the “Brainternet”.

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Science & Energy

New Backscattered Radio Signal Transmits Data 2.8 Kilometers with Minimal Power

This new system could mean big things for flexible electronics.

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Future Society

New Flexible, Organic Battery Could Revolutionize Medical Implants

This new flexible, organic battery can hold three times as much charge as its conventional counterpart.

Supercomputing Is Allowing Us to Map Brain Function at the Deepest Levels
Science & Energy

Supercomputing Is Allowing Us to Map Brain Function at the Deepest Levels

Supercomputers make seemingly impossible endeavors possible.

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Virtual Reality

We are Just Six Months Away from Magic Leap One

Lucky users will have to drop between $1,500 - $2,000 for the privilege.

New Discovery Makes It Easier to Remove Radioactive Elements From Nuclear Waste
Chemistry

New Discovery Makes It Easier to Remove Radioactive Elements From Nuclear Waste

We’ve long needed a better solution for this complicated and costly task.

Scientists Can Now Turn off Feelings of Thirst in Mice
Science & Energy

Scientists Can Now Turn off Feelings of Thirst in Mice

They’ve located the neurons that tell us to reach for the water.

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Agriculture

Geneticists Have Used CRISPR Gene Editing to Create Crops That Grow More Food

We're editing our way through global food shortage.