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Self-Driving Vehicles

A New Uber Competitor Just Raised $16 million in Funding For Complete Autonomous Taxis

The company is using to fund to beat its coming deadline in two years.

Science & Energy

Even the South Pole Wasn’t Safe From the Asteroid that Killed the Dinosaurs, Study Finds

A new study finds that even the Poles weren't safe when the huge asteroid hit Earth.

Future Society

Skyn: The New Wearable That Could Saves Lives By Monitoring Blood Alcohol Level

Keep a continuous track of your blood alcohol content with this new wearable biosensor.

Future Society

EU Announces That All Scientific Articles Should Be Freely Accessible by 2020

Free knowledge for all. This is utterly revolutionary.

From Quarks to Quasars

1 in 4 Americans think the Sun Orbits the Earth? The Real Problem with Education in America

3D Printing

Airbus Makes World’s First Functional 3D Printed Motorcycle (and it’s €50,000)

This 3D printed motorcycle is smaller, lighter, leaner, and *very* expensive.

Artificial Intelligence

Watch Out, Doc. An AI is Going to Start Interpreting X-Rays

Tomorrow, your X-rays may be going to...an AI?

Artificial Intelligence

Australia to Field Test “Rancher Robot” that Monitors Animal Health and Well-Being

Australian ranchers are going to be farming...robots?

Physics

Real Life Yale Experiment Reveals Schrödinger’s Cat Can Be in 2 Boxes at Once

Turns out, the cat is alive and dead and in two places at once. And it could revolutionize quantum computing.

Robotics

Apple Supplier Just Cut 60,000 Jobs. Replaces Factory Workers With Robots

Because of robots, a factory with 110,000 employees just cut their number of workers to 50,000.

Physics

Physicists Think They Might Have Just Detected a Fifth Force of Nature

New evidence suggested that there could be a fifth fundamental force.

Cryptocurrency

Photons as Passwords: New Security System Can Match Quantum Computers

The future of encryption rest in harnessing the seemingly unconquerable world of quantum mechanics.

Science & Energy

Physicists Made a ‘Black Hole’ in a Lab That May Finally Prove Hawking Radiation Exists

Stephen Hawking could finally get his Nobel prize.

Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality Could Be Used to “Transport” Jurors to a Crime Scene

New technology in the courtroom? Virtual Reality could be the key to giving jurors better insight into cases.

Science & Energy

Thanks to Time Dilation, Earth’s Core is 2.5 Years Younger Than its Surface

Time slows near massive objects, and that has a rather strange impact on our planet.

Tesla

WATCH – A Tesla Using the Autopilot Feature Just Crashed Into a Truck

Watch as a Tesla driver's Model S Autopilot feature fail and crash into a truck.

Off-World

Giant Solar Storms May Have Fueled the Evolution of Life on Earth

Life on Earth may have gotten its start with a little help from colossal solar eruptions.

Future Society

Rochester Cloak: New Breakthrough Moves Real-Life Invisibility Cloak Closer To Reality

Say "hello" to continuous and multidirectional cloaking in three dimensions.

Physics

New Evidence Could ‘Break’ the Standard View of Quantum Mechanics

There's another theory regarding the fundamental physics of our universe, and it may be correct.

Science & Energy

Massive Asteroid Hit Earth 3.5 Billion Years Ago, Dwarfing One That Killed The Dinosaurs

In fact, it was 2 times the size of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs.