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Department store Bloomingdale's incorporated robots into its 2019 holiday window displays — and the whimsical scenes could foreshadow the future of retail.
Robotics

Robots Decorate Trees, Perform Carols in Store’s Holiday Display

Bloomingdale's brought out the robots this holiday season.

By Kristin Houser

Russia is pouring big money into quantum research in a bid to catch up to other world leaders' quantum computer programs.
Quantum Physics

Russia Desperately Wants a Quantum Computer

"We're five to 10 years behind."

By Dan Robitzski

A team of Brazilian researchers have succesfully bioprinted tiny organoids like a mini-liver that perform all of the human liver's functions.
Developments

Scientists Print Functional Human “Mini-Livers”

Another step closer to ending our reliance on a short supply of donor organs.

By Victor Tangermann

NASA recently spotted yet another gigantic storm on Jupiter's south pole, bringing the total count up to seven swirling vortices.
Science & Energy

Check Out This Hypnotic Array of Colossal Storms on Jupiter

Yet another cyclone popped up on Jupiter's south pole.

By Dan Robitzski

A group is developing an AI to finished Ludwig van Beethoven's 10th symphony, which the composer was writing when he died in 1827.
Artificial Intelligence

An AI Is Completing Beethoven’s Unfinished Symphony

In April, a full symphony orchestra will perform the piece live.

By Kristin Houser

NASA is sending Boeing's Starliner passenger spacecraft to the International Space Station early Friday morning from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Boeing

This Week, Boeing Will Try to Dock Its Space Taxi With the ISS

"Being on the cusp of this huge moment in history is really exciting," said a NASA spokesperson.

By Victor Tangermann

Unless it's particularly old, your car is likely spying on you, sending an unsettling amount of information about you and your behavior to the manufacturer.
Advanced Transport

Cars Are Secretly Spying on Us

Your car is constantly sending out a massive torrent of information about you.

By Dan Robitzski

New York-based research and design company Lars Buro has come up with the "Cybunker," a "hi-tech depot" or "off-grid residence" for you and your Cybertruck.
Advanced Transport

Check Out the “Cybunker,” a Post-Apocalyptic Cybertruck Garage

Oh, and you can live in it.

By Victor Tangermann

New research reveals that Mars auroras — the Red Planet's version of the Northern Lights, are far more common than previously thought.
Science & Energy

Majestic Auroras Sweep the Martian Sky Almost Every Day

Mars has its own version of the Northern Lights.

By Dan Robitzski

Someone shared GIFs of strobe lights via Twitter and tagged the Epilepsy Foundation in an apparent attempt to trigger seizures in people with epilepsy.
Future Society

Cyberattack Aims to Cause Seizures in Twitter Users With Epilepsy

The attacker shared posts of strobe lights — and tagged the Epilepsy Foundation.

By Kristin Houser

Amazon is full of third-party merchants selling food and other stuff they found in the garbage. It turns out it's not hard to sneak through the system.
Food

Scammers Are Selling Dumpster-Dived Food on Amazon

Oh no.

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers have created an AI that is able to come up with a recipe for "perovskite" that could one day be used to create spray-on solar cells.
Solar Power

Scientists Are Working on Spray-On Solar Panels

This artificial intelligence might make it a reality.

By Victor Tangermann

Former NASA engineer Mark Rober is back with a new-and-improved Glitter Bomb Trap 2.0, an upgrade to his rigged package for "porch pirates."
NASA

NASA Alum Upgrades Glitter Stink Bomb for “Porch Pirates”

If you've ever had a package stolen, you'll want to watch this.

By Kristin Houser

Google fired a fifth employee who had been trying to organize the comapny's workforce, though the tech giant denies that was the root issue.
Future Society

Google Reportedly Fires Fifth Worker For Organizing Unionization

Kathryn Spiers distributed educational tools about labor rights.

By Dan Robitzski

Urban flight company Skyryse has shown off what it calls the "world's most intelligent helicopter" — a modified self-flying helicopter.
Advanced Transport

Watch the First Commercial Self-Flying Helicopter Take Off

They call it the "world's most intelligent helicopter."

By Victor Tangermann

Newly discovered "cocoons" of gaseous carbon around young galaxies could help solve the mystery of how the element spread throughout the universe.
Science & Energy

Strange “Cocoons” Surround These Young Galaxies

"We are witnessing... the earliest environmental pollution in the Universe."

By Kristin Houser

NASA just released a new image, the clearest yet, of 2I/Borisov, the second ever interstellar visitor we've seen enter our solar system.
Science & Energy

NASA Releases New Image of Interstellar Visitor

"Borisov is the first known interstellar comet, and we would like to know how many others there are."

By Dan Robitzski

Starting in January, Boeing will halt production on its 737 MAX passenger jets, two of which recently crashed, killing everyone on board.
Advanced Transport

Boeing to Halt Production of Disaster-Prone 737 MAX Jet

It'll stop manufacturing the controversial planes in January.

By Kristin Houser

Thousands of engineers have been designing and working on a gigantic intergovernmental radio telescope network called the Square Kilometer Array (SKA).
Science & Energy

Africa Unveils Massive Alien-Hunting Antenna Network

3,000 dishes will span eight African countries.

By Victor Tangermann

A car in the U.K. exploded because its driver sprayed an "excessive" amount of flammable air freshener in the vehicle and then lit a cigarette.
Advanced Transport

A Driver Used so Much Air Freshener His Car Literally Exploded

Everything was going fine until he lit up a cigarette.

By Kristin Houser