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Scientists working with DARPA developed a living concrete, teeming with bacteria, that resembles Jell-O. It can grow and regenerate itself when it breaks.
Science & Energy

Scientists Create “Living Concrete” That Can Heal Itself

"It really does look like a Frankenstein material."

By Dan Robitzski

Spotify is launching a playlist generator today that can line up some killer tunes for you and your hamster, bird, iguana, dog or cat.
Future Society

New Spotify Feature Will Generate a Playlist For Your Iguana

"While music for pets isn’t an exact science, we consulted with experts in the pet industry for the best approximation for what might work best for our featured animals."

By Victor Tangermann

Trump is displeased that Apple refused to give the FBI backdoor access into iPhone security, but the company already sends lots of data to law enforcement.
Future Society

Trump Demands That Apple Give Government Access to iPhones

"We have always maintained there is no such thing as a backdoor just for the good guys."

By Dan Robitzski

Even tardigrades — one of the most resilient creatures in the known universe — might not be able to survive global warming, according to a new study.
Global Warming

Scientists: Global Warming Could Kill Tardigrades

"We had found their Achilles' heel."

By Kristin Houser

Swiss watchmaker H. Moser & Cie. has partnered with Surrey NanoSystems — the company behind Vantablack — to create a watch that looks like a black hole.
Future Society

This Vantablack Watch Costs $75,000

It's like staring into a black hole on your wrist.

By Victor Tangermann

A new book takes a deep dive into panpsychism, a millennia-old theory that argues that all forms of matter experience consciousness.
Science & Energy

Professor: Electrons and Quarks May Experience Consciousness

"What this offers us is a beautifully simple, elegant way of integrating consciousness into our scientific worldview..."

By Kristin Houser

17 children and nine adults are being treated for minor injuries today after a jet approaching LAX dumped a bunch of jet fuel over an elementary school.
Future Society

Boeing 777 Dumps Fuel on California Schoolchildren

As if climate change wasn't enough.

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers from the University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland have found a way to keep human livers alive for an entire week outside the body.
Developments

Scientists Keep Human Livers Alive In Machine For a Week

The machine features an artificial heart, pancreas, lung, kidneys, bowels, and even an artificial diaphragm.

By Victor Tangermann

A new report has found that Grindr, Tinder, and other dating apps have been covertly selling users' sensitive information to third-party companies.
Data Privacy

Researchers: Grindr and Tinder Are Selling Your Personal Data

"These practices are out of control..."

By Kristin Houser

For the second time, LIGO researchers detected gravitational waves given off by a merging pair of neutron stars, but the collision challenges their models.
Science & Energy

Scientists Detect Epic Neutron Star Collision

LIGO picked up gravitational waves from a brutal crash.

By Dan Robitzski

Microsoft has created a tool that analyzes text-based chats for signs of pedophiles online — and it's giving it away for free.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Says New Tool Detects Pedophiles Grooming Kids Online

And they're giving it away to qualified companies.

By Kristin Houser

A scientist has compared the amount of heat causing ocean warming to the amount of energy released by the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
Science & Energy

Scientists: Ocean Warming at the Rate of Five A-Bombs per Second

"It’s about five Hiroshima bombs of heat, every second, day and night, 365 days a year."

By Kristin Houser

Tesla is selling a new T-shirt featuring an image of the glass that was shattered during the company's Cybertruck unveiling in November.
Tesla

New Tesla Merch Pokes Fun at Cybertruck Unveil Fail

It's good to be able to laugh at yourself.

By Victor Tangermann

On Saturday, a man named Adam Gorlitsky, who is paralyzed from the waist down, broke a world record for finishing a marathon wearing a robotic exoskeleton.
Health & Medicine

Paralyzed Man Runs Marathon In Robotic Exoskeleton

"I want to challenge [the previous record holder] to a one-on-one exoskeleton race one day."

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers confirmed that climate change is indeed making wildfires worse after analyzing 57 peer-reviewed papers published since 2013.
Climate Change

Research: Climate Change Is Indeed Making Wildfires Worse

Climate change isn't just making wildfires more severe — they're also happening more frequently.

By Victor Tangermann

Many of San Francisco's recently opened robot restaurants are already going out of business, as pointed out by a new Business Insider story.
Robotics

San Francisco’s Robot Restaurants Are Going out of Business

The futuristic eateries are closing almost as quickly as they opened.

By Kristin Houser

China's world record, "alien-hunting" telescope, FAST, became fully operational on Saturday, quadrupling the amount of the universe astronomers can examine.
Science & Energy

China Finally Boots Up Colossal Alien-Hunting Radio Telescope

You could fit an entire neighborhood inside this massive dish.

By Dan Robitzski

A link between the protein Sestrin and exercise could one day allow us to enjoy the benefits of physical activity without ever leaving our couches.
Treatments

Study: Treatment Provides Benefits of Exercise Without Exercising

It works on mice and fruit flies. Could something similar work in humans?

By Kristin Houser

A team of researchers have developed an AI that can detect hyoglycaemic events — drops in blood sugar — in raw ECG data from a wearable.
Prosthetics and Devices

This AI Can Detect Low Blood Sugar From ECG Readings

This is impressive.

By Victor Tangermann

On opposite side of the Earth's core lie two massive, mysterious blobs of ultrahot ancient rock that have scientists locked in a decades-long disagreement.
Science & Energy

Geologists Baffled By “Massive Anomalies” at Edge of Earth’s Core

"It would be like having an object in the sky, and asking, 'Is that the moon?' And people are like, no. 'Is that the sun?' No. 'What is it?' We don’t know."

By Dan Robitzski