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A new roach-like robot out of UC Berkely can withstand the weight of a person stepping on it and scuttle at a speed of 20 body lengths per second.
Robotics

This Roach-Sized Robot Keeps Going Even After You Step on It

This bot may be tiny, but it's also tough.

By Kristin Houser

Before his controversial gene-hacking research was condemned, He Jiankui wanted to open a designer baby clinic in China or Thailand.
Health & Medicine

That “CRISPR Baby” Scientist Wanted to Open a Designer Baby Clinic

He Jiankui hoped to gene-hack babies for the rich and powerful.

By Dan Robitzski

Before we make first contact with any aliens out there, we should figure out whether we're willing to kill them to further our scientific knowledge.
Future Society

Scientist: We Should Be Prepared to Kill Aliens

Here's a brutal reality: to understand aliens, we're probably going to have to kill and dissect them.

By Dan Robitzski

A new crypto platform called SpankPay wants to become the go-to payment service for porn and adult entertainment, circumventing more hostile financiers.
Science & Energy

Finally, Porn Is on the Blockchain

SpankChain wants to be the go-to payment service for adult content.

By Dan Robitzski

Burger King is adding the Impossible Whopper to the menu at all of its U.S. locations, a sign that plant-based meat is catching on in America.
Future Society

Burger King’s Impossible Whopper Is Going Nationwide on August 8

America is ready to bite into plant-based meat.

By Kristin Houser

Physicists built a "mini-sun" that's helping them study solar winds and why the Sun occasionally ejects blasts of plasma into space.
Physics

Scientists Built a Ball of Plasma They Call a “Mini-Sun”

It's easier than studying the real Sun up close.

By Dan Robitzski

Lyft e-bikes are catching fire in San Francisco, prompting the company to pull the city's entire fleet untl it can figure out what's going on.
Advanced Transport

Lyft Suspends SF E-Bikes Because They’re Bursting Into Flames

City supervisor: "The last thing you need is a flaming bike as you’re riding down the street."

By Kristin Houser

Andrew Yang says it's too late to stop some of the effects of climate change, and we should all migrate uphill to avoid floods.
Climate Change

Yang’s Climate Plan: “Start Moving Our People to Higher Ground”

"We are too late. We are 10 years too late."

By Dan Robitzski

An experimental HIV vaccine that showed promise in past studies is about to be tested on thousands of people from around the world.
Health & Medicine

Thousands of People Are About to Test an HIV Vaccine

3,800 people will be vaccinated in September.

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers have found that a distant exoplanet is so drawn by the gravitational pull from its host star, it's being deformed into the shape of a football.
Science & Energy

Scientists Just Found a Hellish Exoplanet Shaped Like a Football

Make no mistake: this planet is basically Hell.

By Victor Tangermann

The Tesla Dog Mode feature has a serious flaw that is putting pets' lives in danger, but thankfully, the company is already working on a fix.
Tesla

A Glitch in Tesla’s Dog Mode Is Trapping Pups In Hot Cars

But Elon Musk says a fix is on the way.

By Kristin Houser

Researchers at DeepMind have found that their machine learning AI could alert medical health professionals of future kidney injury 48 hours early.
Artificial Intelligence

This “AI Doctor” Can Predict Acute Kidney Conditions 2 Days Early

Will machines one day alert doctors of life-threatening conditions way ahead of time?

By Victor Tangermann

During the closest encounter we've ever had with the Sun, NASA's Parker Solar Probe took an impressive picture of the solar corona.
Off-World

Here’s the Closest Picture We’ve Ever Taken of the Sun

NASA's Parker Solar Probe had to fly pretty damn fast to snap this one.

By Victor Tangermann

MOZI 2, a solar-powered drone with a wingspan of 15 meters, just successfully completed its maiden flight, according to Chinese media reports.
Drones

This Strange Solar-Powered Drone Could Save You in a Disaster

Its maiden flight just went off without a hitch.

By Kristin Houser

Jailed sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein reportedly met with prominent scientists for years to discuss his interest in eugenics and other fringe sciences.
Science & Energy

Sex Trafficker Jeffrey Epstein Obsessed With Eugenics, Cryogenics

Epstein wanted to cryogenically freeze his penis and seed humanity with his DNA.

By Dan Robitzski

A Denver beverage company is developing teas and coffees infused with psilocybin, the compound that gives "magic mushrooms" hallucinogenic properties.
Health & Medicine

This Startup Is Developing Tea, Coffee Infused With Psilocybin

They're taking the "magic" out of shrooms and putting it in your morning mocha.

By Kristin Houser

An experiment called BioRock is figuring out whether bacteria could turn space rocks into farmable soil for future off-world settlements.
Biology

Astronomers Want to Use Bacteria to Mine Space Rocks

They're investigating how well mineral-leeching microbes fare without gravity.

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers have developed a new Turing Test to determine when machines are able to not only think like humans, but act like us as well.
Artificial Intelligence

Advanced Robotics Forced Scientists to Invent a New Turing Test

It's designed for humanoids, not just computer programs.

By Kristin Houser

For the last nine years, the U.S. government has been working on a top-secret military artificial intelligence "brain" platform called "Sentient."
Artificial Intelligence

The Military Secretly Built An “Artificial Brain” Called Sentient

The system can guide satellites and direct military operations.

By Dan Robitzski

The Pentagon is working on a laser that can beam human speech directly into people's brains, tech that could warn intruders as they approach military bases.
Robots and Machines

Pentagon: New Laser Tech Can Make People Hear Voice Commands

The U.S. Military wants to make you hear voices.

By Dan Robitzski