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A nonprofit is suing the Federal Communication Commission in an attempt to force it to reconsider the impact of cell phone radiation on human health.
FCC

Nonprofit Sues FCC for Ignoring Science on Cell Phone Radiation

The suit alleges that the FCC is ignoring information that cell phone radiation is “associated with severe health effects in humans.”

By Kristin Houser

Americans who recently returned from China are putting themselves under a voluntary quarantine for coronavirus. Some are facing dangerous rumors.
Viruses

Here’s What It’s Like to Live Under Coronavirus Quarantine

"The social media creates a certain amount of frenzy."

By Dan Robitzski

A new pair of AR smart glasses don't project an image onto its lenses. Instead, it uses lasers to shoot an image directly into the eyeball.
Virtual Reality

These AR Smart Glasses Shoot Lasers Directly Onto Your Retina

The glasses do away with the common approach of projecting an image onto its lenses.

By Dan Robitzski

2,666 and 1,045 crew members have been quarantined on the luxury cruise ship Diamond Princess of the Japanese coast for two weeks.
Developments

Thousands Are Quarantined On a Virus-Stricken Luxury Cruise Ship

They've been trapped at sea for weeks.

By Victor Tangermann

Waymo workers have told The Verge that passengers keep shooting up in the company's self-driving cars and leaving their used needles behind.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo Workers: People Keep Injecting Drugs in Self-Driving Cars

Employees keep finding used needles in self-driving cars.

By Kristin Houser

The US Navy is looking to arm nuclear submarines with high-energy laser weapons, according to Popular Mechanics. It won't reveal why.
Nuclear Fusion

The US Navy Wants to Arm Nuclear Submarines With Laser Cannons

There's just one problem: Laser weapons don't work underwater.

By Victor Tangermann

Health experts recently warned that the coronavirus 2019-nCoV is more contagious than they originally predicted, and they still don't know how much so.
Viruses

Scientists: The Coronavirus May Be More Contagious Than Thought

"The rapid acceleration of cases is of concern."

By Dan Robitzski

In a filing with the FCC, SpaceX revealed that it's requesting permission to fly its recent Starship prototype on a flight to an altitude of 12.4 miles.
Starship

SpaceX Is Planning a Miles-High Starship Flight as Early as March

It'll reach an altitude about halfway to the edge of space.

By Victor Tangermann

The U.S. Army is working with chemists to develop fabrics that can absorb and neutralize nerve agents for use in future military uniforms. 
Military

The US Army Is Developing Fabrics That Neutralize Nerve Agents

It plans to use the cloths to create tomorrow’s military uniforms.

By Kristin Houser

A handheld device that "prints" sheets of artificial skin directly onto the wounds of burn victims is one step closer to actual use in burn clinics.
Prosthetics and Devices

Handheld Device “Prints” New Skin Directly Onto Wounds

And it just passed a test on pigs with flying colors.

By Kristin Houser

Chinese authorities are using high-tech tools to track and limit the 2019-nCoV coronavirus outbreak such as lasers that can spot people with fevers.
Developments

China Deploys Infrared Sensors to Detect Infected Citizens in Public

This seems a bit totalitarian.

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk revealed that his secretive brain-computer interface startup Neuralink is working on an "awesome" new version of the company's prototype.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says Upcoming Version of Neuralink is “Awesome”

"The potential is truly transformational for restoring brain & motor functions."

By Victor Tangermann

NASA astronaut Jessica Meir snapped an out-of-this-world selfie during an International Space Station spacewalk in January.
NASA

NASA Astronaut Snaps Epic Selfie in Space Station Reflection

She used one of the space station's solar panels as a mirror.

By Kristin Houser

Google says a "technical issue" caused its Takeout service to send backups of users' videos to strangers in November 2019.
Future Society

Google Accidentally Sent Users’ Private Videos to Strangers

The company says a "technical issue" caused the glitch.

By Kristin Houser

We still don't know who won the Iowa caucus because the Iowa Democratic Party's (IDP) use of an app to report results was an epic fail.
Future Society

Iowa Tried to Use an App for an Election. It Was a Disaster.

The Iowa Democratic Party blamed the debacle on a "coding issue."

By Kristin Houser

Surgeons Gave This Adorable Cat Four Amazing 3D-Printed Paws
3D Printing

Surgeons Gave This Adorable Cat Four Amazing 3D-Printed Paws

Four titanium legs gave poor little Dymka a new lease on life.

By Victor Tangermann

Li Wenliang, a doctor in Wuhan, China, was censored after he warned med school classmates about the coronavirus. Now he's sick in the hospital.
Viruses

After China Censored This Wuhan Doctor, He Caught the Coronavirus

Li Wenliang was one of the first to warn about the outbreak. Then he caught it himself.

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists believe they've identified a case where someone infected another person with the coronavirus 2019-nCoV before ever displaying symptoms.
Viruses

New Research: People Without Symptoms Can Spread Coronavirus [UPDATED]

If true, the finding presents a dire threat to international effort to contain the outbreak.

By Dan Robitzski

In a grim milestone, the coronavirus has now taken more American lives than Al Qaeda did on the September 11 terror attack in 2001.
Viruses

Scientists Warn: You Can Catch Coronavirus More Than Once

"For those patients who have been cured, there is a likelihood of a relapse."

By Dan Robitzski

A team of French researchers have grown yarn from human skin cells that could be used by surgeons as simple sutures or assembled into skin grafts.
Developments

This Horrific “Yarn” Is Made From Human Flesh

"We can sew pouches, create tubes, valves and perforated membranes."

By Victor Tangermann