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Artificial Intelligence

It’s Time to Talk About How Siri is Reinforcing Gender Stereotypes

The world's top supercomputer, IBM Watson, has a man's name and voice while nearly all virtual assistants have female names and voices.

Milky Way’s Origins Are Not What They Seem
Off-World

Milky Way’s Origins Are Not What They Seem

This study transforms our understanding of how galaxies formed from the Big Bang.

10 Images of What Sunset Would Look Like If The Sun Were Swapped With Other Stars
Science & Energy

10 Images of What Sunset Would Look Like If The Sun Were Swapped With Other Stars

Chinese Researchers Just Unveiled the World’s Largest Virtual Universe Simulation
Science & Energy

Chinese Researchers Just Unveiled the World’s Largest Virtual Universe Simulation

It contains 2 trillion digital particles shaped into 25 billion virtual galaxies.

Report: The World Invested $264 Billion in New Renewables in 2016
Climate Change

Report: The World Invested $264 Billion in New Renewables in 2016

“Solar and wind are now cost-competitive almost everywhere.”

China to Start Using Blockchain to Collect Taxes and Send Invoices
Blockchain

China to Start Using Blockchain to Collect Taxes and Send Invoices

Another application for blockchain that's transforming the world as we know it.

Researchers Have Found a Drug That Can Help Slow the Spread of Multiple Cancers
Cancer

Researchers Have Found a Drug That Can Help Slow the Spread of Multiple Cancers

Tumors in mice shrunk by 50% when treated with it.

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Falcon

See How SpaceX Plans to Launch the Falcon Heavy This November

What’s trickier than landing one used rocket? Landing three.

This Tiny Supercomputer Consumes 98% Less Power and 99.93% Less Space
Computers

This Tiny Supercomputer Consumes 98% Less Power and 99.93% Less Space

It packs 1 PetaFLOPS of power into a single rack.

Here’s Your First Look at Tesla’s Beautiful Solar Roofs
Tesla

Here’s Your First Look at Tesla’s Beautiful Solar Roofs

Musk even provided unretouched photos of the installed solar tiles.

New Evidence Suggests Venus May Have Had an Ocean
Off-World

New Evidence Suggests Venus May Have Had an Ocean

This could help advance our search for habitable exoplanets.

A New Quantum Understanding is About to Turn Chemistry on Its Head
Chemistry

A New Quantum Understanding is About to Turn Chemistry on Its Head

Quantum mechanics have a major, majorly strange, affect on biochemical reactions

AI and VR Could Completely Transform How Doctors Diagnose and Treat Mental Disorders
Virtual Reality

AI and VR Could Completely Transform How Doctors Diagnose and Treat Mental Disorders

Your future therapist could be a chatbot.

15 Awesome Science Advertisements
Science & Energy

15 Awesome Science Advertisements

Can Astronomy Account For the Biblical Star of Bethlehem?
Science & Energy

Can Astronomy Account For the Biblical Star of Bethlehem?

5 Exotic Types of Alien Worlds
From Quarks to Quasars

5 Exotic Types of Alien Worlds

Researchers Are Finding Remarkable Ways to Combat Aging and Extend Human Health
Health & Medicine

Researchers Are Finding Remarkable Ways to Combat Aging and Extend Human Health

Treatments range from young blood transfusions to expensive injections.

SpaceX Helped Tesla Speed Up Their Car Production, Elon Musk Revealed
Elon Musk

SpaceX Helped Tesla Speed Up Their Car Production, Elon Musk Revealed

It's a valuable "cross-fertilization" of knowledge.

Two Babies Have Been Cancer-Free After Receiving Treatment Created With Gene Editing
Cancer

Two Babies Have Been Cancer-Free After Receiving Treatment Created With Gene Editing

The treatment has succeeded in keeping the two infants cancer-free for over a year.

Elon Musk Has “Zero Doubt” Tesla Can Achieve 10,000 Units per Week by 2018
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Has “Zero Doubt” Tesla Can Achieve 10,000 Units per Week by 2018

Tesla is up to the task.