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Robot umpires are making their way into professional baseball, calling strikes and balls at the Atlantic League's all-star game Wednesday night.
Future Society

But a human ump still stood behind home plate.

By Kristin Houser

NASA just dropped an astonishing elaborate map of the over 4,003 exoplanets that we know to exist outside our Solar System.
Exoplanets

We've discovered over 4,000 exoplanets since the early 1990s.

By Victor Tangermann

A haptic feedback vest could help working dogs perform their jobs better than before by issuing specific commands through controlled vibrations.
Robot Dogs

Dogs were trained to respond to vibrations sent from a remote control.

By Dan Robitzski

Israeli startup REE has unveiled a modular car design that puts everything typically found under the hood of an electric vehicle into its wheels.
Advanced Transport

They packed everything normally found under an EV's hood into its wheels.

By Kristin Houser

What You Need to Know about Sarin, One of the World’s Deadliest Nerve Agents
From Quarks to Quasars

By Futurism

Physicist Sterling Backus is 3D printing a full-scale Lamborghini Aventador-inspired supercar in his own backyard with the help of his son.
3D Printing

You wouldn't download a car. Or would you?

By Victor Tangermann

A Russian sub caught fire on Monday, killing 14 sailors — and Russia won't say what kind of sub it was or what it was doing near the ocean floor.
Advanced Transport

And it may have been nuclear-powered, too.

By Kristin Houser

Once the cost of testing an embryo for genetic conditions drops, most parents will forgo traditional reproduction, according to author Henry T. Greely.
Health & Medicine

"In 20 to 40 years, most people all over the world with good health coverage will choose to conceive in a lab."

By Kristin Houser

Robots might one day steal the right to raise children away from humans, according to author and AI ethics expert John C. Havens.
Artificial Intelligence

We already expect robots to take our jobs. Could they take our kids, too?

By Kristin Houser

Clergy within the Russian Orthodox Church want to end the practice of blessing Russia's nuclear weapons, but others are happy to frame nukes as holy.
Future Society

Give us each day our daily nuke.

By Dan Robitzski

Virgin Orbit just dropped a rocket that was strapped beneath a modified Boeing 747 jumbo jet. The system could greatly reduce satellite launch costs.
Future Society

Launching satellites from mid-air could greatly reduce launch costs.

By Victor Tangermann

New research suggests that some moons may escape their host planets' orbits to become "ploonets" — and Earth's own Moon could eventually join their ranks.
Science & Energy

A hypothetical new type of world could explain a lot about our universe.

By Kristin Houser

Impossible Foods, the fake meat company behind the plant-based Impossible Burger, is now working on a recipe for plant-based fish meat.
Science & Energy

But plant-based fish may not have the same market as beef.

By Dan Robitzski

A woman in Cleveland is now the second in the world and first in the U.S. to give birth using a uterus harvested from a deceased donor.
Health & Medicine

“We couldn’t have asked for a better outcome... the mother and baby girl are doing great."

By Kristin Houser

A new breathalyzer called the Keyto can help people on the keto diet track how well they're doing at cutting carbs out of their diets.
Health & Medicine

The Keyto combines the keto diet with vaping in public.

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers have found radiation levels up to 800,000 times higher than expected in the sea water around a sunken nuclear sub.
Nuclear Fusion

Some samples showed radiation levels 800,000 times higher than normal.

By Kristin Houser

India is getting ready to launch its first-ever lunar lander mission called Chandrayaan 2 on Sunday, including an orbiter, lander, and rover.
Moon

India's 56-pound mobile rover could soon be exploring the far side of the Moon.

By Victor Tangermann

Russia space agency Roscosmos confirmed that it's planning to 3D print structures on the moon to protect astronauts from the harsh environment by 2040.
Moon

Could natural resources on the Moon be 3D printed into habitats and tools?

By Victor Tangermann

To train more handy robots, scientists built "adversarial objects" — small, die-like figures that are as difficult to grasp as possible.
Robotics

It's a fumble!

By Dan Robitzski

Thirteen paralyzed patients can now use their hands again thanks to Australian Natasha van Zyl's pioneering nerve transfer surgery.
Health & Medicine

"It’s really a life-changing thing."

By Kristin Houser