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Star Trek’s Medical Tricorders Have Made It to the Final Round of XPrize
Medical

Star Trek’s Medical Tricorders Have Made It to the Final Round of XPrize

Futuristic tech can help us live long and prosper.

U.K. Approves Fertilization Treatment Using DNA From Multiple People to Make Babies
Treatments

U.K. Approves Fertilization Treatment Using DNA From Multiple People to Make Babies

Approval will help families give birth to healthy, genetically related children.

Dementia Will Be a Treatable Condition in 10 Years
Neuroscience and Brain

Dementia Will Be a Treatable Condition in 10 Years

According to expert, we are on our way to winning the war against memory loss.

Scientists Discover A Host of New Animal Species
Science & Energy

Scientists Discover A Host of New Animal Species

There's still a world to explore out there.

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Space

Scientists Want to Cool You Down By Beaming Heat Into Space

The cold dark vacuum of space is about to get a little warmer.

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Elon Musk

Elon Musk: To Eliminate Traffic “I’m Going to Build A Machine and Just Start Digging”

"Boring, it's what we do."

A World of Water: New Revelations About Ceres
Science & Energy

A World of Water: New Revelations About Ceres

Does it come from the planet's crust or from space itself?

$5.2 Trillion in Investments Pulled From the Fossil Fuel Industry
Energy

$5.2 Trillion in Investments Pulled From the Fossil Fuel Industry

More than 688 institutions and nearly 60,000 individual investors worth $5.2 trillion have pulled their investments from fossil fuel companies.

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Advanced Transport

Soccer Parents, Rejoice! This New Minivan Drives Itself

You can now cheer for your kid's team without worrying about driving to the match.

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Treatments

Breakthrough Treatment Proven to Prolong Life

A possible new weapon in the fight against neurodegenerative disease.

The Largest Ever Digital Survey of the Universe Just Mapped Billions of Stars
Science & Energy

The Largest Ever Digital Survey of the Universe Just Mapped Billions of Stars

The biggest map of the Earth's skies is here

Autonomous Drones Are Delivering the Mail in France
Drones

Autonomous Drones Are Delivering the Mail in France

By scooping up our packages, drones might leave us with fewer jobs.

The Goals of Extraterrestrial AI May “Conflict With Those of Biological Life”
Artificial Intelligence

The Goals of Extraterrestrial AI May “Conflict With Those of Biological Life”

The truth out there might be even more intelligent than we could imagine.

Survey Reveals Nearly 50% of Americans Favor a Universal Basic Income
Universal Basic Income

Survey Reveals Nearly 50% of Americans Favor a Universal Basic Income

This is the beginning of some very important conversations.

Nanoparticles May Bring an End to Death by Venomous Snakes
Nanotech

Nanoparticles May Bring an End to Death by Venomous Snakes

The process creates a workaround for a few of the most limiting aspects of antivenom production.

The Largest Astronomical Project in Existence Just Got Upgraded to Search for Alien Life
Science & Energy

The Largest Astronomical Project in Existence Just Got Upgraded to Search for Alien Life

Like a brand new pair of glasses, ALMA can see a lot more.

Stopping Trump: Obama Creates “Permanent” Ban on Oil Drilling in the Arctic
Fossil Fuels

Stopping Trump: Obama Creates “Permanent” Ban on Oil Drilling in the Arctic

But the coast is not completely clear.

Robots Are the Way to Secure Our Future, and the U.S. Is Being Left Behind
Future Society

Robots Are the Way to Secure Our Future, and the U.S. Is Being Left Behind

Mark Cuban proposes the government should spend $100 billion on robotics.

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Cancer

Lasers Cure Nearly 50% of Patients With Prostate Cancer in New Study

Experts have honed a cutting-edge method to kill off tumors with less damage to healthy cells.

Artificial Intelligence is Helping Restore Vision
Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence is Helping Restore Vision

Deep learning is allowing for a new vision to help improve human sight.