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Off-World

The Latest Interstellar Messages Could Receive an Extraterrestrial Response in 25 Years

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

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Science & Energy

A Stable Plasma Ring Has Been Created in Open Air For the First Time Ever

This could be a radical new way to store energy.

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Bitcoin

Bitcoin Forks Could Play a Key Role in the Cryptocurrency’s Continued Development

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

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

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

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Artificial Intelligence

Bill Gates: Benefits of Robots, Healthcare AI Will Outweigh Pitfalls

"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

Neuroscientists Are Trying to Alter Our Brain Circuits to Eradicate Pain

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

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Climate Change

There’s a Radical Plan to Artificially Cool the Planet by Mimicking Volcanic Eruptions

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

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Future Society

Amazon and Microsoft are Combining their Robotic Assistants

"Alexa, open Cortana."

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Pollution

A Cheap, Accurate Machine-Learning Microscope Could Help Cut Air 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

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

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

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Health & Medicine

Doctors Performed a Surgery Inside the Womb for the First Time in Canada

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

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

This is a collective failure on a massive scale.

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Science & Energy

The Next Electric Car to Make it to Market May Have a One Minute Charge Time

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

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

MIT Has a Radical New Design for a Martian City

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

Watch CRISPR Edit DNA in Real Time
Science & Energy

Watch CRISPR Edit DNA in Real Time

See CRISPR alter the source code of life as it happens.

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Tesla

Here’s How to Watch and What to Expect From Tesla’s Semi Reveal

The heavy-duty electric truck is finally ready for the spotlight.

For the First Time, Scientists Used Gene Editing Inside a Living Patient
Gene Editing

For the First Time, Scientists Used Gene Editing Inside a Living Patient

This is a radical attempt to permanently change a person's DNA to cure a disease.

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Advanced Transport

The Owner of Volvo Just Acquired a Flying Car Company

Geely has joined the ranks of big automakers jockeying for the first mass-market flying vehicle.

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NASA

The NASA-SpaceX Partnership Saved NASA Hundreds of Millions

Commercial partnerships make space cheaper and more accessible.

Human Embryonic Stem Cells Were Just Used to Fix A Leading Cause of Blindness
Health & Medicine

Human Embryonic Stem Cells Were Just Used to Fix A Leading Cause of Blindness

This is revolutionary, as there's currently no treatment for the disease.