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Google

Google’s Voice-Activated Home Assistant is a Virtual Butler That’s Always Listening

Google’s weapon against Amazon’s Echo is going live.

Solar Power

Shutdown of World’s Largest Solar Plant After Mirror Fire

The fire is an additional problem for the Ivanpah plant, which is already under threat of being shut down for its deficiencies in output performance.

Robotics

MIT Researchers Give The Robot Bee a Major Upgrade

The new improvement allows robot bees to conserve its limited energy supply, and extend its operational life.

Off-World

Astronomers Capture Image Of Universe 13 Billion Years Ago, “Where No Human Has Seen Before”

Long, long ago there was a galaxy far, far away. And we just saw it.

Science & Energy

New Biosensor Could Detect Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and Cancer

Welcome to the new era of rapid medical diagnosis.

Quantum Physics

Terahertz Firing Quantum Lasers May Soon Be Protecting Us From Bombs and Explosives

We're cutting detection time from minutes to microseconds...with a laser the size of a computer chip.

Artificial Intelligence

Fujitsu is Making a Robot to Judge Tokyo’s 2020 Olympics

I, Robot, do solemnly swear to be impartial.

Science & Energy

Stem Cell Regeneration in Mice Sparks New Hope for Those With Spinal Cord Injuries

Remarkably, they regained function in their limbs.

Robotics

Adidas Is Looking To Robots To Start Mass Producing Its Shoes

Fully automated shoe production is almost here.

Future Society

Scientists Enable Computers to Generate True Random Numbers

Random numbers from computers were never really random, until now.

3D Printing

Scientists Find A Way to 3D Print One Pill For All That Ails You

Multiple medications with different release times—all in one pill.

Off-World

New Evidence That Life on Earth Could Have Come From Outer Space

The Rosetta spacecraft just found the key building blocks for life on a comet.

3D Printing

To Kill Cancer, Scientists Are 3D Printing Brain Tumors

Some 250,000 people around the world have brain cancer. This could help us fight back.

Science & Energy

MRI Reveals How Schizophrenic Brains Can Regenerate, Opens New Doors for Treatment

Remarkably, this attempt at self-healing could be enhanced by the right medical treatments.

Mars

Lockheed Martin Plans to Send Humans to Mars by 2028

The campaign for a Mars Space Camp has begun.

Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says We Are All Probably Computer Simulations. Seriously.

Science & Energy

World’s Largest Math Proof Solved. And It Takes Up 200 Terabytes

Brain

Stroke Survivor Walks Again After Doctors Inject Stem Cells Directly into Brain

This work is causing doctors to question the extent to which brain damage is permanent and truly irreversible.

Space

Hubble Reveals That Our Universe Is Expanding Far Faster Than We Thought

The world “out there” just keeps getting bigger and bigger.

Robots and Machines

New Vacuum-Powered Rubber Mimics Skeletal Muscles

Biceps on robots are becoming softer, resembling that of human biceps.