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Science & Energy

Researchers Uncover Critical New Clues About Cancer

This could help develop more personalized and accurate treatment.

Cancer

Cancer Deaths Have Dropped 25% in 20 Years

It's a slow but steady fight against this deadly disease.

Medical

Future Health: 2017’s Most Exciting Medical Advances

What does the next year have in store for the human body?

Science & Energy

New Treatment Could Help Your Teeth Repair Themselves

Say goodbye to dental fillings and the Tooth Fairy.

Universal Basic Income

Meet the Person Whose Life Is Being Changed by Universal Basic Income

Juha Jarvinen shows that UBI can be a motivator in creating a better life.

Future Society

Company Raises the Price of a Drug That Fights Infant Epilepsy by 85,000%

Medicine should be about patients, not patents.

Health & Medicine

This Device Hugs the Heart to Make It Pump Blood

With any luck, heart failure will soon be a thing of the past.

Advanced Transport

Meet the Near-Supersonic “Hyper-Tube Train”

A 5-hour ride would be cut down to 30 minutes.

Climate Change

All Mentions of Climate Change Were Just Deleted From the White House Website

First order of business: Delete climate change information page.

Health & Medicine

Key Researcher Suggests People “Have Senses That They Don’t Recognize”

As it turns out, we may all have more than 5 senses.

Tesla

Report: Tesla Crashes Dropped by 40% After Autopilot was Installed

Without humans, driving is rather safe.

Future Society

A Timely Reminder: Vaccines Don’t Cause Autism

Forget what you may have heard. The science shows that vaccines do not cause autism.

Space

It Looks Like Our Sci-Fi Future Won’t Be Including Star Trek

It may have stalled, but the tech it inspired lives on.

Science & Energy

USDA Approves Sale of Non-Browning GMO Apples

Would you buy and eat them?

Mars

We Just Found New Evidence of Water on Mars

Where there's mud, there's water (and possibly life).

Science & Energy

Another Form of Complex Life May Have Once Lived on Earth

An oxygen spike in Earth's past could be evidence of unknown lifeforms.

Science & Energy

Shark Undergoes World’s First Switch from Sexual to Asexual Reproduction

This shark can now reproduce without a mating partner.

Climate Change

We’ve Set a Climate Change Record for 2016, and It’s Awful

The planet is warming, and humans are to blame.

Medical

Researchers Use a Watch to Make Pacemakers Battery-Free

This mechanism forms a perfect loop of energy transfer.

Self-Driving Vehicles

This Month, Self-Driving Mini-Vans Offically Become Reality

The cars will be tested on California and Arizona roads.