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Researchers have developed a new deep learning algorithm that can detect heart disease just by analyzing four photographs of a person's face.
Studies

Algorithm Detects Heart Disease by Analyzing Selfies

"This could be a cheap, simple and effective [method] of identifying patients who need further investigation."

By Victor Tangermann

The Russian government is about to start a 40,000-person experiment on its COVID-19 vaccine, which is usually something that happens before they approve it.
Viruses

40,000 Russians Are About to Get That Untested COVID-19 Vaccine

"It’s essential we don’t cut corners in safety or efficacy."

By Dan Robitzski

NASA warns that harvesting lunar ice for future settlers' drinking water could make it impossible to study the ice down the road.
Moon

Mining Lunar Ice Could Irrevocably Damage the Moon’s Environment

Harvesting lunar ice could ruin future scientific research.

By Dan Robitzski

A new NASA facility will communicate with distant spacecraft via lasers, vastly improving the bandwidth of interplanetary communications.
Science & Energy

NASA Facility Will Beam Messages to Space Through Lasers

NASA wants a laser relay to connect Earth to distant spacecraft.

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla is seeking approval from the FCC to market a sensor that can tell if a child is being left behind in a hot car, Reuters reports.
Tesla

Tesla Asks USA For Permission to Automatically Detect Kids Left in Hot Car

Okay, this is pretty cool.

By Victor Tangermann

An AI-controlled virtual fighter jet just beat a human pilot in a dogfight, winning five rounds to zero as part of a DARPA contest.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Fighter Jet Obliterates Human Air Force Pilot in Simulated Dogfight

This could be a turning point in AI warfare.

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is investigating a small air leak on board the International Space Station. Luckily, the three current crew members aren't in immediate danger.
International Space Station

NASA Says There’s a Small Leak on the International Space Station

Luckily, the crew is safe.

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists developed a new kind of plastic that can be broken down and recycled an indefinite number of times without losing quality.
Science & Energy

A New Kind of Plastic Could Be Recycled Indefinitely

The plastic can maintain its quality after being broken down and reshaped.

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers have built a tiny microbot that weighs less than a gram and can run entirely on methanol, a type of alcohol.
Robotics

Relatable: This Tiny Robot Is Powered by Alcohol

"We were able to make it so light and small because we’re not relying on batteries."

By Victor Tangermann

New research reveals that kids with COVID-19 have a much higher viral load — meaning the virus reproduces more rampantly in their bodies — than expected.
Viruses

According to New Research, Kids Spread COVID-19 Like Crazy

Just in time for school.

By Dan Robitzski

Blue Origin just delivered an engineering mockup of a lander that could one day carry American astronauts down to the surface of the Moon to NASA.
Moon

Blue Origin Engineers Deliver Full-Scale Prototype Moon Lander to NASA

The vision of returning American astronauts to the Moon by 2024 is looking more real than ever.

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have observed that two bubbles around the center of the Milky Way are spitting out clusters of cold molecular gas "like bullets."
Science & Energy

Astronomers Detect “Bullets” of Gas Shooting Out of Our Galactic Center

They have no idea what's behind it.

By Victor Tangermann

Authorities in Florida just approved a plan for biotech company Oxitec to release over 750 million genetically modified mosquitoes over the next two years.
Science & Energy

Florida Is Releasing Almost a Billion Gene-Hacked Mosquitoes

Environmental advocacy groups are furious.

By Victor Tangermann

DARPA is training artificial intelligence algorithms to fly fighter planes then pitting them against each other in virutal combat.
Artificial Intelligence

DARPA Is Testing F-16s Flown by AI in Virtual Combat

"A lot of them killed themselves on accident."

By Dan Robitzski

These Robots Can Store Energy in “Fat Reserves,” Like Humans
Robotics

These Robots Can Store Energy in “Fat Reserves,” Like Humans

"Robots could have 72 times more power capacity if their exteriors were replaced with zinc batteries."

By Victor Tangermann

The Air Force wants to test its artificial intellgience-driven drones in "some sort fo air-to-air" against human fighter pilots.
Artificial Intelligence

Air Force Pilots Are About to Do Battle With Autonomous Drones

The Air Force wants drones to face a "human, manned system in some sort of air-to-air."

By Dan Robitzski

Once the James Webb Space Telescope launches, NASA plans to use it to take 3D images of distant quasars and their host galaxies.
Science & Energy

3D Space Images Could Reveal How Quasars Influence Galaxies

Another amazing plan for the James Webb Space Telescope.

By Dan Robitzski

Newly-discovered bacteria can help neutralize dangerous toxins, potentially leading to a new way to clean Superfund sites.
Bacteria

Scientists Find Bacteria That Devours Cancer-Causing Pollutants

They say they could use it to clean up toxic waste sites.

By Dan Robitzski

Electric car company Lucid Motors just announced that its Lucid Air luxury sedan "will be the fastest charging electric vehicle ever offered."
Tesla

Tesla Competitor Claims Its Car Will Be the “Fastest Charging” EV Ever

About 300 miles of range in just 20 minutes of charging.

By Victor Tangermann

An upcoming experiment called DUNE hopes to scoop up neutrinos, elusive particles blasted out by supernova explosions, as they sail through Earth.
Physics

This Underground Experiment Will Hunt for Supernova Shrapnel

It hopes to scoop up supernova neutrinos as they fly through Earth.

By Dan Robitzski