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We need to create a World Carbon Bank to incentivize developing nations to go green, according to Harvard University economist Kenneth Rogoff.
Climate Change

Economist Calls for World Carbon Bank to Fight Climate Change

It could incentivize nations to transition to greener energy sources.

Next year, astronauts on the International Space Station will attempt to bake cookies in space. It's part PR stunt, part lesson in zero-g manufacturing.
Science & Energy

Astronauts Are Planning to Bake Cookies on the Space Station

That's just how the cookie crumbles.

Chameleon Theory provides an alternative explanation for galaxy formation and the universe's expansion from Einstein's General Relativity.
Energy

New “Chameleon Theory” Could Explain Dark Energy, How Galaxies Formed

Chameleon Theory provides a possible alternative to General Relativity.

Officials from the FBI, ICE, and other government agencies are using facial recognition tech to scan databases of DMV photos.
Artificial Intelligence

The FBI Is Scanning DMV Photos of Law-Abiding Americans

"It’s really a surveillance-first, ask-permission-later system."

A small fire broke out today at SpaceX's facility in Florida that's focused on bringing the Starship rocket to life, as TechCrunch reports.
Starship

Fire Breaks Out at SpaceX Starship Facility in Florida

Someone streamed the fire live on Twitch.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a tweet that it'll take a "massive effort" to create the Autopilot software needed to facilitate safe autonomous driving.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk: It’ll Take “Massive Effort” to Create Safe Autopilot

And fully autonomous cars are going to cost way, way more.

A robot arm called the Jaco can attach to the wheelchairs of people with limited upper mobility and help them better manage everyday tasks.
Robotics

This Robot Arm Can Help Wheelchair Users Drink Coffee, Open Doors

The $35,000 device makes everyday tasks more accessible.

Russian biologist Denis Rebrikov says he's found five couples who want him to use CRISPR to ensure their offspring do not inherit their deafness.
Prosthetics and Devices

Five Couples Agree to CRISPR Their Babies to Avoid Deafness

But are the benefits of hearing worth the risks of gene editing?

It sounds like a joke, but members of Congress and their staff are getting together Wednesday to play the video game "Rocket League."
Future Society

Members of Congress Are Gonna Play “Rocket League” on Twitch

Politicians are gamers now — or, at least, that's what they want you to believe.

As LightSail 2 orbits Earth and explores the cosmos, people back home can track the progress of the solar sail and monitor its status through a new website.
Solar Power

A New Website Tracks the Just-Launched Solar Sail Spaceship

It updates every time LightSail 2 sends a transmission.

A giant asteroid the size of a car just showed up on the University of Hawaii's survey telescopes mere hours before it entered the Earth's atmosphere.
Science & Energy

Massive Asteroid Explodes Above Puerto Rico Mere Hours After Detection

Despite little warning this time, we're getting better at spotting asteroids.

Alphabet-owned subsidiary Sidewalk Labs just released a massive 1,524 page document outlining its plans for a $1.3 billion 190 acre smart city in Toronto.
Future Society

Alphabet-Owned Company Unveils Plans for Smart City

What was meant to be a 12-acre plot redevelopment just turned into something far more ambitious.

Federal agents used postage bought online to track down two dark web drug dealers selling methamphetamine they marketed as Adderall.
Future Society

Feds Bust Dark Web Drug Dealers After They Buy Postage Online

They really should've just taken a trip to the post office.

New computer simulations upend our understanding of how distant space rocks called trans-Neptunian objects formed during the solar system's earliest days.
Off-World

Space Rocks Near Neptune Could Reveal the Solar System’s Origins

A new simulation reveals how trans-Neptunian Objects could have formed.

Buzz Aldrin: Stephen Hawking Said We Shouldn’t Colonize Mars Yet
Mars

Buzz Aldrin: Stephen Hawking Said We Shouldn’t Colonize Mars Yet

The late astrophysicist told Aldrin we need to "colonize the Moon first."

A third CRISPR baby was expected to be due in late June or early July, but the Chinese government is keeping quiet about the gene-hacking controversy.
Biology

We May Never Know When That Third CRISPR Baby Is Born

The third gene-hacked birth was expected to happen right around now.

AI tools like GROVER are very good at flooding the internet with fake news and spam. The solution may come in the form of smarter Google filters.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Poised to Ruin Internet Using “Massive Tsunami” of Fake News

The cat-and-mouse game is stacked against us.

Using a combination of CRISPR and antiretroviral therapy, researcher eliminated the HIV virus from the genomes of mice engineered to produce human T cells.
Health & Medicine

CRISPR Helps Scientists Cure HIV In Living Animals For First Time

Human trials of the new treatment could kick off within the year.

To some, collecting resources from other planets or asteroids instead of using up the Earth could be the key to ensuring that we — and our planet — survive.
Off-World

Billionaires Are Dead Serious About Moving Factories to Space

"The solar system can support a billion times greater industry than we have on Earth."

Astronomers have detected over ten radio bursts from distant galaxies in the last week. The sudden frequency could help us figure out what's causing them.
Science & Energy

Possible Alien Radio Signals Way More Common Than Believed

Astronomers just detected ten more bursts in the last week.