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New Paper Claims EM Drive Works, Produces Light As Exhaust
Physics

New Paper Claims EM Drive Works, Produces Light As Exhaust

EM Drive is heralded as "the fuel free travel of the future." The only problem? It seems to break physics as we know it.

New Form Of Atomic Nuclei Just Confirmed, And it Suggests Time Travel is Impossible
Physics

New Form Of Atomic Nuclei Just Confirmed, And it Suggests Time Travel is Impossible

A new discovery in physics indicates that we can never go back in time.

Check Out Microsoft’s Vision of A Future Without Mice and Keyboards
Virtual Reality

Check Out Microsoft’s Vision of A Future Without Mice and Keyboards

In the future, we may be interacting with our technology in a very different way.

MIT Engineers Develop Tough New Hydrogel Inspired by Human Skin
Robots and Machines

MIT Engineers Develop Tough New Hydrogel Inspired by Human Skin

The new material can be used to create synthetic skin and deliver drugs.

Meet The Axolotl: The Mexican Walking Fish
From Quarks to Quasars

Meet The Axolotl: The Mexican Walking Fish

Rolls-Royce To Launch Robot Cargo Ships By “End of the Decade”
Artificial Intelligence

Rolls-Royce To Launch Robot Cargo Ships By “End of the Decade”

The maker of luxury cars is making ships that won't need luxury or personal trappings.

This 100 Kilometer-Long Floating Barrier May Soon Be Collecting Our Ocean Trash
Pollution

This 100 Kilometer-Long Floating Barrier May Soon Be Collecting Our Ocean Trash

The garbage collector won't interfere with wildlife and can survive extreme weather.

Cambridge Scientists Want to Make Sustainable, Self-Healing Cities Using Bone
Robots and Machines

Cambridge Scientists Want to Make Sustainable, Self-Healing Cities Using Bone

The backbone of 'the city of the future' might literally be bone.

Zero Emissions: Sweden Just Opened The World’s First “Electric Highway”
Science & Energy

Zero Emissions: Sweden Just Opened The World’s First “Electric Highway”

A step towards fossil-free transport - when vehicles are connected, they have zero emissions.

Toyota is Spending $1 Billion to Make Helper-Robots For the Elderly
Artificial Intelligence

Toyota is Spending $1 Billion to Make Helper-Robots For the Elderly

The elderly are about to get their own fleet of robots.

Pluto’s Tiny Moon Has a “Super Canyon” That’s Five Times Deeper Than The Grand Canyon
Moon

Pluto’s Tiny Moon Has a “Super Canyon” That’s Five Times Deeper Than The Grand Canyon

Scientists just learned that this little world has a canyon five times the depth of the Grand Canyon.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Gets to Stay Up For Five More Years
NASA

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Gets to Stay Up For Five More Years

Hubble won't be resting anytime soon, thanks to this contract extension.

The Ability to Use Food Stamps Online Could Lead to a Healthier Future
Food

The Ability to Use Food Stamps Online Could Lead to a Healthier Future

Using your food stamps at McDonalds? Fine. Using them online to buy organic peanut butter? Nope.

Curiosity Could Soon be Sampling Martian Water
Off-World

Curiosity Could Soon be Sampling Martian Water

The rover must be pretty thirsty after all this time.

This Autonomous Patrol Drone System Can Even Change its own Batteries
Drones

This Autonomous Patrol Drone System Can Even Change its own Batteries

This UAV can even carry a load of 1-kilogram for 30 minutes.

Art + Technology: A New Way To Educate
Future Society

Art + Technology: A New Way To Educate

Technology can take art (and education itself) to a whole new level.

The (Rather Weird) Era of Virtual Reality Porn is Upon Us
Off-World

The (Rather Weird) Era of Virtual Reality Porn is Upon Us

Naughty America has released a series of virtual reality demos...of porn.

IBM Will Have A 200-Petaflop Supercomputer Ready by 2018
Computers

IBM Will Have A 200-Petaflop Supercomputer Ready by 2018

This computer will be nearly twice as fast as the current record holder.

NASA Finds Neptune-Sized Planet Very Close to Home
NASA

NASA Finds Neptune-Sized Planet Very Close to Home

The "baby" planet is prompting astronomers to rethink previous assumptions.

Fighting Cancer With Genetic Modification: CRISPR Approved For First Human Trial
Cancer

Fighting Cancer With Genetic Modification: CRISPR Approved For First Human Trial