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Prosthetics and Devices

New Tech Is Giving Humanity Many Potential Paths to Immortality

It's no longer if we could, but rather if we should.

Head of IBM Watson Says AI Will Augment Human Beings
Artificial Intelligence

Head of IBM Watson Says AI Will Augment Human Beings

"The combination of the human and the tool together are greater than either one of them would've been by themselves."

Here’s Everything You Need to Know About the Recent Human Gene Editing Trial in the US
Gene Editing

Here’s Everything You Need to Know About the Recent Human Gene Editing Trial in the US

This technique may be able to cure serious diseases, but how can we regulate it?

10 Amazing Facts You Should Really Know About Black Holes
Science & Energy

10 Amazing Facts You Should Really Know About Black Holes

Water on Alien Worlds: Ganymede
Off-World

Water on Alien Worlds: Ganymede

7 Clever Carnivorous Plants
Science & Energy

7 Clever Carnivorous Plants

Meet the Opah: The First Fully Warm-Blooded Fish
Science & Energy

Meet the Opah: The First Fully Warm-Blooded Fish

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3D Printing

Scientists Have Developed a New Method to 3D-Print Living Tissue

Better artificial organs could be on the way.

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Science & Energy

Scientists Claim They Have “Solved the Mystery of How the First Animals Appeared on Earth”

Algae holds the answer.

infertility assisted reproduction stem cells male chromosomal infertility
Science & Energy

Scientists Have Officially Created Healthy Offspring from Genetically Infertile Male Mice

This technique may someday be applicable in humans.

Can A New Supplement Change How We Age?
Health & Medicine

Can A New Supplement Change How We Age?

It's not the fountain of youth, but it is pushing the bounds of health.

Buildings to Generate Their Own Power With Innovative Glass Blocks
Energy

Buildings to Generate Their Own Power With Innovative Glass Blocks

Buildings consume more than forty percent of the electricity produced across the globe.

Renewable Energy Isn’t Just Cutting Costs, It’s Saving Lives
Renewable Energy

Renewable Energy Isn’t Just Cutting Costs, It’s Saving Lives

The cut in air pollution prevented as many as 12,700 US deaths over nine years.

New Thruster Design Increases Efficiency for Future Spaceflight
Off-World

New Thruster Design Increases Efficiency for Future Spaceflight

The specific impulse of the thruster increased by 1.1 to 53.5 percent.

Researchers Used Tiny Autonomous Vehicles to Deliver Medicine to the Stomach of Mice
RX and Medicine

Researchers Used Tiny Autonomous Vehicles to Deliver Medicine to the Stomach of Mice

These hair-wide autonomous bots deploy antibiotics from deep inside the body.

The “Quantum Internet” Is Just a Decade Away. Here’s What You Need to Know.
Quantum Computing

The “Quantum Internet” Is Just a Decade Away. Here’s What You Need to Know.

Breaking down a future of “unhackable” emails, teleporting information, and more.

A New Theory Suggests We May be the Only Technologically Advanced Civilization Still Around
Exobiology

A New Theory Suggests We May be the Only Technologically Advanced Civilization Still Around

Most civilizations may exist briefly, and end badly.

Here’s Your Critical Guide to the Hospitable Earth-Like Exoplanets
Exoplanets

Here’s Your Critical Guide to the Hospitable Earth-Like Exoplanets

The candidates for humanity's next home are...

Researchers Have Devised a Method to Erase Memories Associated With Fear
Health & Medicine

Researchers Have Devised a Method to Erase Memories Associated With Fear

It could help patients suffering from PTSD.

Researchers May Have Just Discovered an Entirely New State of Matter
Science & Energy

Researchers May Have Just Discovered an Entirely New State of Matter

They needed to use a massive magnetic field to find it.