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Human traffickers are selling slaves via Instagram and other apps, according to a disturbing new investigation by BBC News Arabic.
Future Society

Human Traffickers Are Literally Selling Slaves on Instagram

They tried to sell a 16-year-old girl on Instagram. "This is the quintessential example of modern slavery," said a UN representative.

By Kristin Houser

NASA: Four Astronauts Will Stay on the Moon For Two Weeks
Moon

NASA: Four Astronauts Will Stay on the Moon For Two Weeks

They're also sending a remote controlled Moon rover.

By Kristin Houser

AI-AItech, the company behind a sex robot named Emma, plans to release a more realistic model that can walk, move its arms, and breathe in and out.
Robotics

This Company Invented a Sex Robot That Breathes

This might be the most unholy use of robotics tech yet.

By Dan Robitzski

India's space agency is waiting for the green light on a planned mission to visit and map out the entire surface of Venus.
Science & Energy

India’s Space Agency Wants to Explore Venus

It wants to map out the planet's entire surface.

By Dan Robitzski

In a video uploaded by MIT's Biomimetics department, nine Mini Cheetah robots can be seen rustling up some autumn leaves and doing the occasional backflip.
Robotics

Watch a Pack of MIT’s Mini Robots Cavort in Autumn Leaves

Who needs dogs when you can watch 20-pound robots play?

By Victor Tangermann

A company called Genomic Prediction offers report cards based on the DNA test of frozen embryos. Experts say it's reminiscent of eugenics.
DNA

DNA Test Startup Claims It Can Spot Embryos With Low Intelligence

"Right off the bat it raises all kind of questions about eugenics."

By Dan Robitzski

A glitch by third-party text platform Syniverse resulted in the delayed delivery of thousands of texts originally penned on Valentine's Day.
Future Society

People Are Suddenly Getting Texts From Last Valentine’s Day

An IT glitch resulted in the delayed delivery of 168,149 texts.

By Kristin Houser

Over a year later, the veteran who got the world's first penis transplant that included the scrotum and surrounding flesh reports that he's doing just fine.
Developments

Doctors Announce First Ever “Fully Functional” Penis Transplant

Over a year later, the transplant remains successful.

By Dan Robitzski

By connecting satellites with ultra-thin tethers, engineers could safely steer them back to Earth with a space propulsion system, no fuel required.
Off-World

The US Is Testing a Space Propulsion System That Doesn’t Use Fuel

"In other words, it is the sailing ship of space."

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX has released an amazing video that shows half of a nose cone (or fairing) from a Falcon Heavy rocket plummet back own to Earth.
SpaceX

Watch a Piece of a SpaceX Rocket Careen Back Down to Earth

That same piece will be reused as early as next week.

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk elaborated on his extremely ambitious plans to establish a sustainable settlement on Mars by sending 1,000 Starship rockets.
Starship

Elon Musk: I Can Build a Martian City With 1,000 Starships

It will take 20 years to send 100 million tons of cargo to the Red Planet.

By Victor Tangermann

A Canadian space launch startup has partnered with commercial space services company to develop a way to reuse old rocket parts in space.
Off-World

This Startup Wants to Turn Space Junk Into Orbital Hotels

Rockets' upper stages could be turned into space stations.

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have created an unsinkable metal by using lasers to etch an air-trapping pattern onto an aluminum structure's surface.
Science & Energy

Watch a Piece of Metal Refuse to Sink in Water

Where was this tech when they were building the Titanic?

By Kristin Houser

In September 2020, Italy will begin making it mandatory for students to learn about climate change in school for 33 hours per year.
Climate Change

Italy Will Soon Force Public Schools to Teach Climate Change

"The 21st century citizen must be a sustainable citizen."

By Kristin Houser

In China, minors are no longer allowed to play video games between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m., or for more than 90 minutes total on weekdays.
Health & Medicine

China Bans Minors From Playing Video Games After 10 PM

Kids are also limited to just 90 minutes of game play on weekdays.

By Kristin Houser

Researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine found that stem cells-derived heart muscle cells adapted to microgravity really quickly.
Space

Something Strange Happened to Human Heart Cells in Space

The study could "benefit astronaut health during long-duration spaceflight."

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk says he's "looking into" making a Tesla feature that turns off proximity sensors while people wait in drive-through lanes.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Alarmed That Teslas Beep Constantly in Drive-Thru Lanes

Apparently the cars' parking sensors go hogwild in drive-through lanes.

By Dan Robitzski

The likelihood of human extinction in any given year is as high as one in 14,000, but people don't seem to see the loss of humanity as uniquely tragic.
Future Society

Scientists: Human Extinction Is Extremely Likely

And people don't seem all that bothered by the possibility.

By Kristin Houser

A Redditor designed a hat to thwart facial recognition by literally putting on a picture of Chinese President XI Jinping's face which blocks their face.
Future Society

This Ingenious Hat Blocks Facial Recognition

One easy trick to defeat the surveillance state.

By Dan Robitzski

Geneticist Chris Mason has an unusual idea for helping future astronauts survive the trip to Mars: gene-hack them with tardigrade DNA that blocks radiation.
Mars

This Scientist Wants to Gene-Hack Hybrid Humans to Survive Mars

He wants to splice tardigrade DNA into humans so they can survive Mars.

By Dan Robitzski