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Artificial Intelligence

Facebook’s “Superhuman” Poker AI Out-Bluffs World’s Top Players

“It’s safe to say we’re at a superhuman level and that’s not going to change.”

By Victor Tangermann

Nickelodeon is sending a batch of its iconic slime to the astronauts aboard the ISS to be used for experiments, which will be filmed and later broadcast.
International Space Station

Astronauts on the ISS Are About to Get Slimed — for Science

The green goo is headed to space.

By Kristin Houser

A distant black hole is surrounded by a much larger disk of spacestuff than scientists expected, giving them a rare glimpse of special relativity in action.
Physics

This Might Be the Strangest Black Hole Yet

The cosmic monster could help test Einstein's theories of relativity.

By Dan Robitzski

News recently broke about worms that had allegedly been frozen in Arctic permafrost for 40,000 years. It turns out they're probably a lot younger.
Biology

That Story About the Ancient Frozen Worms Might Be Bologna

A closer look at that "ancient worm" story raises new questions.

By Dan Robitzski

Startup Luminar has announceda production-ready lidar system for autonomous cars that costs just $500 — a huge decrease in price over existing systems.
Elon Musk

This $500 Lidar System Could Prove Elon Musk Wrong

"Anyone relying on lidar is doomed," Musk said. "Doomed!"

By Kristin Houser

Protests broke out at an Amazon AWS Summit in New York City on Thursday. Tech workers and immigration activists demanded the company stop helping ICE.
Future Society

Protesters Interrupt Amazon Event to Decry Its Work With ICE

"Amazon Rekognition is primed for abuse in the hands of governments."

By Dan Robitzski

As the world continues to heat up from climate change, tens of thousands of important archaeological sites throughout the Arctic will be destroyed.
Climate Change

Climate Change Is Destroying Greenland’s Historic Viking Towns

As the world heats up, history will rot away.

By Dan Robitzski

The diagnostic tools on experimental fusion reactors are too fragile for industrial-scale facilities. A new technique may be able to replace them.
Energy

New Tool Helps Contain Molten Plasma in Fusion Reactors

A new technique lets scientists peer inside powerful fusion reactors.

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers discovered two distant supermassive black holes on a crash course with each other. They hope to learn whether such mergers are possible.
Physics

Two Supermassive Black Holes Are on a Devastating Crash Course

"It's a major embarrassment for astronomy that we don't know if supermassive black holes merge."

By Dan Robitzski

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

Robot Umpires Make Professional Baseball Debut

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

NASA Just Released an Incredible Map of All Known 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

A Vibrating Haptic Feedback Vest Could “Steer” Rescue 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

Startup Thinks Its Modular Car Design Is the Future of EVs

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

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

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

A Physicist and His Son Are 3D-Printing a Full-Scale Lamborghini

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

Russian Sub That Caught Fire Possibly Sent to Cut Internet Cables

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

The Era of Sex for Reproduction Is Coming to an End, Says Author

"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

Expert: Future Robots Could Steal Your Children

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

The Russian Orthodox Church May Stop Blessing Nuclear Weapons

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

Virgin Just Dropped a Massive Rocket from a Gutted Jumbo Jet

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

By Victor Tangermann