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A team of scientists at the University of Richmond, Virginia have taught rats how to drive tiny cars around a track to get to a food reward.
Science & Energy

Scientists Taught Rats How to Drive Tiny Cars

Well, this is absolutely adorable.

By Victor Tangermann

The AI systems now used to grade essays on standardized tests in 21 states are deeply flawed, according to a new Motherboard investigation.
Artificial Intelligence

21 States Are Using AI to Grade Essays on Standardized Tests

And the systems are doing a terrible job.

By Kristin Houser

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

New Research Explains Why We Don’t Live In Constant Fear of Death

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

Here’s Why the Remains of This Supernova Look Like Cotton Candy

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

Trump Admin to Require DNA Samples From Asylum Seekers

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

ISIS Is Using TikTok to Spread Propaganda

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

Russia’s Semi-Autonomous Robot Tanks Were Utterly Useless in Syria

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

Phone-Addicted Teens Are Now Enrolling in Detox Camps

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

Pickup Truck Driver Turns Himself In After Vandalizing 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

Watch a Robot Hand Solve a Rubik’s Cube

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

Amazon Keeps Delivering Moldy, Spoiled Food to Customers

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

Scientists Made Mice Live 12% Longer by Hacking Their Telomeres

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

Scientists Grew Living Mouse Embryos Using Only Stem Cells

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

A CBD Vape Called “Yolo!” Contained a Psychosis-Inducing Drug

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

Scientists Worried That Human Brains Grown in Lab May Be Sentient

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

Scientists Wrapped a Phone in Fake Human Skin

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

NASA’s Considering Giant Inflatable Tents for Moon Habitats

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

Some Storms Are so Strong They Shake the Ocean Floor, Says Study

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

Man Uses His Heat-Seeking Drone to Find Missing Child

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

Watch Astronaut Jessica Meir Tell Trump He’s Wrong, From Space

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