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Advanced Transport

This Swedish Startup Could Automate the Trucking Industry

The future of self-driving long haul trucks is here.

Mars

A NASA Funded Project Wants to Use Plasma Rockets to Get to Mars

A plasma engine could hypothetically get us to the Red Planet in 38 days, by traveling at a speed of 115,200 mph.

Science & Energy

German Researchers Just Created the World’s Sharpest Laser

It travels at speeds of 18 million kilometers a minute.

Quantum Physics

Physicists May Have Discovered One of the Missing Pieces of Quantum Theory

They believe the future influences the past.

Physics

CERN’s New Particle Discovery May Help Us Better Understand What Governs the Universe

The doubly charged, doubly charmed xi particle may hold answers about the physics of the primordial universe.

Evolution

Beyond Darwin: Scientists May Be Redefining Evolution

Challenging long-held ideas of evolution.

Science & Energy

Powerful New Cloning Technique Can Clone Thousands of Genes at Once

“Our goal is to make it cheap and easy for any researcher in any field to clone and express the entire set of proteins from any organism."

Robots and Machines

This Music Video is A True Symphony of Science

Future Society

What People in 1930 Thought We’d Look Like

From Quarks to Quasars

How Does the Sun Appear on Other Planets?

From Pluto, it would be just another star.

Health & Medicine

France Just Announced a New Law Making 11 Vaccines Mandatory

The Prime Minister says it’s “unacceptable” that children still die of measles.

Quantum Physics

A Quantum Principle Could Change Wireless Charging Technology Forever

First, a LED bulb. Next, your electric car?

Artificial Intelligence

IBM is Challenging Congress’s Apocalyptic Perceptions of AI

The technological goliath will lobby congress later this week, encouraging them to look at the positives

Elon Musk

Elon Musk: The World’s Population is Accelerating Towards Collapse

Thus far, any proposed solution to overcrowding on Earth has proven to be a knotty ethical problem.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Study Finds That Human Ethics Could Be Easily Programmed Into Driverless Cars

We can program cars to drive like we do, but should we?

Climate Change

France Just Announced Radical Changes to the Country’s Climate Policy

The newly elected French government announced a series of ambitious measures to decrease reliance on fossil fuels, promote sustainability, and support the environment.

Off-World

Stephen Hawking: “I Am Convinced That Humans Need to Leave Earth”

Hawking suggests we should start looking at real estate elsewhere in the universe — but first, we have to go back to the moon.

Falcon

SpaceX Just Successfully Launched the Third Falcon 9 in Less Than Two Weeks

This was the quickest succession of launches and one of the heaviest payloads ever for SpaceX.

Off-World

How Long Would it Take to Travel to the Nearest Star?

Medical

Scientists Want to Make This Medical Device From a Classic Sci-Fi Show a Reality

The Star Trek tricorder is closer than you think.