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Artificial Intelligence

Now You Can Get Your Kentucky Fried Chicken With a Side of Artificial Intelligence

Charge your cell phone wirelessly while you tell a robot your order. It's a dream come true.

Drones

Meet the SeaDrone: The Affordable Underwater Robot

Researchers are taking airborne drone technologies into the deep.

Exobiology

Life Where It’s Least Expected—New Study States Red Giants Can Unlock Life on Frozen Worlds

Red giants—the penultimate phase of stellar senescence—may harbor habitable zones that could be stable for billions of years, and create conditions suitable for life in the outer reaches of their planetary systems.

Science & Energy

Scientists Launched an Enormous Atlas of the Mathematical Universe

We're making a "genealogy" of the mathematical cosmos and have more than 20 million objects catalogued.

Science & Energy

Physicists Just Discovered a New Form of Light

Think the world already knows everything there is to know about light? Think again.

NASA

NASA Captures Magnetic Field Explosions Over Earth

For the first time ever, NASA has captured a (previously invisible) maelstrom.

Science & Energy

Scientists Find First Ever Microbe Without Mitochondria

We thought that no eukaryotic cell could exist without mitochondria. We were wrong.

Robots and Machines

Chinese Researchers Have Built a Mind Controlled Car

A team from China has just announced their newest creation: a mind-controlled car. A car that can go forward, back, stop, and do other things using only a person's thoughts.

RX and Medicine

Ingestible Origami Robot Unfolds When Ingested to Deliver Medicine or Patch Up Wounds

Origami capsule made of meat can be ingested to remove objects swallowed accidentally, patch up wounds or deliver medicine.

Artificial Intelligence

Hyundai is Developing an Iron Man-like Robotic Exoskeleton

The suit gives you super-strength and may be the future of transport.

Machine Learning

Machine Learning: AI That Runs on Human Failure Succeeds in Making Crystals

A team of US chemists has created an algorithm that predicts reactant conditions for making crystals. And it learns from our failures.

Robots and Machines

Change Colors, Not Clothes: New “Smart Thread” Can Make Chameleon-Like Clothing

This new thread can change its color, thanks to electrical charges.

Artificial Intelligence

This Five-Fingered Robot Hand Is Nimbler Than Your Own

Machine learning + an artificial hand = one dexterous robot.

3D Printing

Google’s Next Project? They’re 3D Mapping The Inside of Earth’s Buildings

Google Maps may be heading to your home, quite literally.

Science & Energy

New Images Reveal How Quickly Earth’s Magnetic Field is Changing

Oh, and the magnetic North pole is moving East towards Asia.

Genetics

Future Warfare: Meet The Electromagnetic Railgun

This is General Atomics’ Railgun “Blitzer.” And it just passed its first test with flying colors.

Off-World

The Forgotten Dwarf: Meet the Largest Unnamed Object in Our Solar System

It’s very dark, has a 45 hour day, and is the third-largest dwarf planet in the outer Solar System. Oh, and it has no name.

Physics

This Liquid Turns Solid When You Punch It, And Now We Know Why

We may finally understand why non-Newtonian fluids act so strange.

Energy

Germany Made So Much Electricity, They Paid People To Use It

In Germany, a sunny day and a strong breeze gets you free money.

Science & Energy

The Debate Is Over: 2-Dimensional Materials Can Be Superconductive

Superconductors are now at their thinnest.