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The HP Omnicept measures biometrics to tell when people are stressed, which could be a good tool for high-stakes job simulations.
Virtual Reality

It monitors your heartbeat, pupil size and more — all in a bid to measure your stress level.

By Dan Robitzski

The biotech company LambdaVision is launching a project to manufacture artificial retinas for blind patients out in space.
Developments

NASA is launching its first experiment to the space station this month.

By Dan Robitzski

A new enzyme, which is really a hybrid of two others, can break down plastic waste six times faster than the next best one.
Environment

The new enzyme breaks down plastic six times faster than the previous best one.

By Dan Robitzski

Despite all of Amazon's claims to the contrary, warehouse workers suffer extremely high rates of injuries, and impossible quotas and robots make it worse.
Future Society

The robots made Amazon more efficient — but also far more dangerous.

By Dan Robitzski

According to an update, NASA's ground analysis concluded that the leak on board the International Space Station "appeared to grow in size."
International Space Station

The ISS leak "appeared to grow in size," according to a NASA spokesperson.

By Victor Tangermann

An aviation company ZeroAvia successfully flight tested a hydrogen-powered passenger plane and has more ambitious tests planned in the future.
Advanced Transport

It's an impressive proof of concept for hydrogen-powered air travel.

By Dan Robitzski

Last week, a meteoroid briefly visited our planet before bouncing off our atmosphere like a stone skipping across a lake.
Science & Energy

Swerve!

By Dan Robitzski

NASA has officially set the date for SpaceX's long awaited Crew-1 mission to the International Space Station for 2:40 am Eastern time on October 31.
NASA

Trick or treat!

By Victor Tangermann

Cornell scientists developed a robot so tiny that it's invisible to the human eye — and they say it could someday hunt for cancer inside your body.
Robotics

Its creators hope the microscopic bot will crawl around inside your body to fight cancer.

By Dan Robitzski

A UK helicopter emergency services charity is in talks with Gravity Industries to allow paramedics to jetpack up a mountain to provide first aid.
Robots and Machines

It could cut a grueling trip up a mountain down to a 90 second flight.

By Victor Tangermann

Japan Outlines Plan to Power Spacecraft With Moon Ice
Moon

Generating fuel on the Moon is a lot cheaper than bringing your own.

By Victor Tangermann

An outrageously strange paper claims, among other things, that there's a black hole at the center of the Earth. Sometthing's fishy.
Science & Energy

Don't worry — there's a perfectly reasonable explanation.

By Jon Christian

A team of scientists measured the mass of 1,800 galaxy clusters to get the most precise number for how much matter is in the universe yet.
Physics

Evenly distributed, the universe only has six hydrogen atoms per cubic meter.

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists just announced the discovery of two organisms that eats viruses — the first credible finding of that type of creature.
Viruses

Take that, viruses!

By Jon Christian

The Italian scientists who found an undergound lake beneath the south pole of Mars revisited their data — and uncovered three more.
Science & Energy

There could be as many as four underground lakes beneath the south pole.

By Dan Robitzski

A hacker forced a smart coffeemaker to turn on its heating element and spit steaming water onto it while showing a ransomware message.
Robots and Machines

How much harm could a hacked coffeemaker do?

By Jon Christian

A new brain-computer interface system can generate an image of a face based just on someone's neural activity as they picture certain characteristics.
Neuroscience and Brain

The brain-computer interface was able to generate faces as people pictured them.

By Dan Robitzski

Army officials want to upgrade SpaceX's Starlink satellites to serve as a navigational network more precise and secure than GPS.
Military

"If you have a million times more opportunity to send information down from your satellite, the data can be much closer to the truth."

By Dan Robitzski

In a recent interview, Elon Musk suggested that oil tycoons might not have known how much they were damaging the planet when they got into the business.
Elon Musk

What changed, man?

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, scientists say they've ascertained how radioactive the Moon is — a finding that could have implications for the future of space travel.
Moon

The Moon is about 200 times as radioactive as the Earth, according to new research.

By Jon Christian