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This AI Draws Horrifying New Pokémon
Artificial Intelligence

Gotta catch 'em all?

Kanye West just shared a new shoe prototype from his Yeezy fashion line — and the kicks contain environmentally friendly algae foam.
Science & Energy

"We're going to be farming and going seed to sole."

Last week, Sophia the robot answered a question about love by saying it doesn't have sex. Now, Sophia's developers say the robot got confused.
Robotics

We got an explanation for Sophia's sexual outburst last week.

NASA: Boeing Spaceflights Are Way Pricier Than SpaceX
Boeing

Boeing is charging more than what NASA currently pays Russia to send Americans to the ISS.

Rising global temperatures could lead to more unplanned explosions of military ammunition stockpiles, experts told Scientific American.
Science & Energy

"In the military, everything is more difficult when it’s summer. And now summer never ends."

Research suggests that extended trips into space might cause cognitive decline in astronauts, as the brain changes without the influence of gravity.
Science & Energy

At least, that's what early brain scans suggest.

Nine year old Belgian genius Laurent Simons is on track to graduate with a degree in electrical engineering this year. He plans to grow artificial organs.
Science & Energy

Next, he's planning on a doctorate and a medical degree.

In a new paper, an international team of quantum physicists argue that thanks to the unusual rules of quantum mechanics, reality is actually be subjective.
Quantum Physics

There is no spoon. Or at least on the quantum level.

Researchers from the University of Sussex have found a way to create cutting-edge holograms that you can not only see but also hear and even feel.
Science & Energy

Watch a video of the amazing hologram in action.

According to a shocking new report by NASA scientists, blood flow can stop and even reverse in the upper bodies of astronauts.
NASA

Scientists are shocked — spending lots of time in space could be far more dangerous than previously believed.

Phil Schiller, the head of marketing at Apple, argues that students with Chromebooks in their classroom instead of iPads won't succeed.
Science & Energy

The company behind iPads says iPads are the ultimate learning tool.

Japan's Hayabusa2 space probe started making its long trek back to Earth after collecting asteroid rock samples some 186 million miles away.
Science & Energy

The tiny spacecraft has nearly 200 million miles to cover.

Microsoft-owned Github dumped physical copies of the world's open source code in an apocalypse-proof vault to save it for when society collapses.
Future Society

GitHub's archives are backed up on microfilm in an Arctic mine.

Elon Musk recently claimed that Neuralink tech would be able to "cure" autism, along with schizophrenia. But autism isn't a brain disease that needs a cure.
Neuroscience and Brain

He incorrectly suggested that autism is a brain disease.

In a move seemingly done to express his Tesla hate, a man in a Honda Odyssey nearly ran a couple off the road in Avon, Ohio.
Tesla

"Why are you putting our lives in danger?"

In a call with reporters on Wednesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that the social media company has nixed 5.4 billion fake accounts in 2019 alone.
Future Society

That's over two thirds of the global population.

Chilean protestors banded together to disable a hovering police drone using hundreds of consumer laser pointers in a dazzling concerted effort.
Future Society

Chilean protestors are borrowing a page from the Hong Kong playbook.

Doctors are treating two people in China for an outbreak of the pneumonic plague, the most serious form of the infamous Black Death disease.
Developments

"The plague is not the most terrifying part. What’s even scarier is the information not being made public."

China has successfully launched its Tianwen-1 — Heavenly Questions — mission to Mars, including an orbiter, lander, and a rover.
Mars

Both China and the U.S. are planning to launch uncrewed missions to the Red Planet next year.

Nobel-winning cosmologist James Peebles argues that we need a better way to describe how the beginning of the universe happened than the "Big Bang."
Science & Energy

"We don't have a strong test of what happened earlier in time."