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Your brain is hardwired to prevent you from considering your fear of your own death, according to a new study set for publication in the journal NeuroImage.
Neuroscience and Brain

Think happy thoughts.

By Kristin Houser

A famous supernova has a cloudy, cotton candy-like appearance. Finally, scientists think they may have an idea of where its bizarre clumps came from.
Science & Energy

Cosmic annihilation never looked so good.

By Dan Robitzski

The Trump administration is planning to force almost all future asylum seekers and migrants to have their DNA taken and added to a database.
Future Society

The data would be added to an already massive FBI database.

By Victor Tangermann

Militants for the terrorist group Islamic State, also known as ISIS, are using the social media video app TikTok to spread propaganda.
Future Society

Some of the posts were backed by catchy songs and adorned with pink hearts.

By Victor Tangermann

When deployed its remote-controlled robot tanks in Syria, the Russian military ran into all sorts of problems like delayed signals and inadequate sensors.
Robotics

These killer robots were a glitchy mess.

By Dan Robitzski

To help teens battle their smartphone addiction, South Korea's government now funds more than a dozen detox camps every year.
Health & Medicine

They're taking a 12-day breather from their phones.

By Kristin Houser

20 year-old Austin Grabas from Edmonton, Alberta turned himself in after vandalizing a Tesla Model 3 by keying it in a parking lot last week.
Tesla

This is why you don't mess with a Tesla.

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI build an AI-powered robot hand that can solve a Rubik's cube more often than not, even when they started messing around with it.
Robotics

Look ma, one (robot) hand!

By Dan Robitzski

Customers using Amazon to buy food have reported receiving spoiled, expired products, and the company isn't always quick to grant a refund.
Food

For sale on Amazon: moldy beef jerky, "rancid smelling" coffee creamers, and Hostess brownies more than a year past their expiration date.

By Kristin Houser

Researchers managed to extend the lifespan of lab mice significantly, making them live longer by cultivating embryonic cells without genetic modification.
Gene Editing

Amazingly, the mice were also less likely to develop tumors and other age-related effects.

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists used stem cells to grow a living mouse embryo in a lab without using any sperm or egg cells whatsoever for the first time.
RX and Medicine

This may be the first-ever animal created without sperm or eggs.

By Dan Robitzski

By the end of 2018, 50 Salt Lake City-based users of a CBD vape product called Yolo! experienced "an intense high of hallucinations and even seizures."
Developments

Investigators found traces of synthetic marijuana — not the advertised CBD — in the vapes.

By Victor Tangermann

As lab-grown mini brains become increasingly complex, some neuroscientists warn that scientists may be creating and killing off sentient life.
Science & Energy

Imagine the endless horror of conscious existence with no body.

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers have developed a human-inspired, artificial skin that can "augment" interactive devices, including a phone and wearables.
Artificial Intelligence

We wish we were kidding: "The intensity of the touch controls the size of the emojis."

By Victor Tangermann

One of the mockup Moon habitats NASA is considering is a 55-foot-long inflatable tent that reaches a height equivalent to a two-story building.
Moon

This giant balloon could house six astronauts.

By Kristin Houser

Severe storms can actually shake the ocean floor, causing "stormquakes," according to a newly published study of seismic activity.
Science & Energy

Researchers dubbed this newly discovered phenomenon a "stormquake."

By Kristin Houser

A local photographer used his heat-seeking drone to find a six-year-old boy who'd gotten lost in a cornfield in Minnesota.
Drones

The drone spotted Ethan in a cornfield at 2 a.m.

By Kristin Houser

When Donald Trump confused the first all-female ISS spacewalk for the first female spacewalk, astronaut Jessica Meir was quick to correct him.
Off-World

During a call with the Space Station, Trump said something that wasn't true — and NASA astronaut Jessica Meir was quick to correct him.

By Jon Christian

Russian biologist Denis Rebrikov has begun editing human eggs, putting him one step closer to his goal of creating CRISPR babies.
Gene Editing

He's already editing donated human eggs and bodily cells.

By Kristin Houser

Public health researcher Joel Moskowitz argues that we don't yet understand the risks of 5G, such as causing cancer, and that more research is necessary.
Cancer

"Meanwhile, we are seeing increases in certain types of head and neck tumors."

By Jon Christian