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Energy

One of the U.S.’s Largest Coal Plants Is Closing 25 Years Ahead of Schedule

That’s one down, but many more to go

Moon

Everything You Need to Know About SpaceX’s Trip to the Moon

Elon Musk says he's sending humans around the Moon next year.

Advanced Transport

Automation is Taking Over One of the Most Popular Professions

Millions of jobs are at risk, but their loss could be for the greater good.

DNA

Scientists Have Created A Way to “Delete” DNA in Living Cells

“Molecular scissors” can literally snip away disease-causing DNA.

Universal Basic Income

Bill Gates: The World Isn’t Ready for Universal Basic Income Now, But We Will be Soon

According to Gates, universal income may work someday, but that day's not today.

Off-World

Should We Try to Colonize Other Worlds or Stay and Fix Earth?

Alien worlds await. Should humans really go?

Artificial Intelligence

Softbank CEO: The Singularity Will Happen by 2047

So, what do we do then?

Health & Medicine

Researchers Have Found a “Reset Button” for Aging Cells

Who says you can’t teach old cells new tricks?

Robots and Machines

See a Haunting Vision of the War Machines of the Future

2048’s weaponry looks downright devastating.

Cancer

A New Cancer Treatment Has Given Terminal Patients a Second Chance at Life

Half the patients in the study are still alive, and a third show no signs of cancer at all.

Tesla

Report Asserts That Tesla’s Cars Are Taking Over the World

First, the United States. Then, the world.

From Quarks to Quasars

What are Magnetars?

Science & Energy

Geneticists Are Pioneering a Way to Postpone Death Using Human DNA

This is how you research your way into immortality.

Virtual Reality

Augmented Reality Is Bringing The Internet To Life

Soon, you won’t just surf the web, you’ll live in it.

Future Society

Forget Mammoths, We Could Bring Dinosaurs and Neanderthals Back to Life

Soft tissues from dinosaur bones could be genetically sequenced and used for cloning

Artificial Intelligence

Bill Gates: This Will Be the Biggest Technological Breakthrough of Our Lifetime

It will arrive while we still live, and we’ll truly be living in the future.

Advanced Transport

A Student Spent $700 to Make His Car Drive Itself

Is DIY the way to go with self-driving tech?

Food

One Fast Food Chain Is Adding Automated Kiosks to 1,000 of Its Restaurants in 2017

The robots are coming for our burgers and fries (or at least the people that serve them).

Boston Dynamics

New Boston Dynamics Robot is Terrifying Science Fiction Brought to Life

What has two legs, two wheels, and the ability to give you nightmares? This robot.

Virtual Reality

The Projector That Turns Every Surface Into a Touchscreen Arrives This Year

This device transforms tables and walls into interactive displays.