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Fertility clinics around the world are asking He Jiankui if he'd be willing t teach them how to use CRISPR to create designer babies.
Prosthetics and Devices

Sketchy Clinics Are Trying to Hire Doctor Who Gene-Edited Babies

Clinics across the world want to use CRISPR to create gray-market designer babies.

As the planet heats up, climate change has melted the snow off of Mt. Everest, revealing the remains of long-dead climbers.
Climate Change

Climate Change Is Thawing out the Corpses on Mt. Everest

As snow melts, human remains poke out of the surface.

Ferrari's first plug-in hybrid, the 986-horsepower SF90 Stradale, is the most powerful production car the company has ever released.
Advanced Transport

Ferrari’s Most Powerful Production Car Ever Is a Plug-in Hybrid

It has a top speed of 211 miles an hour — and three electric motors.

A new weapon called the Wattozz fires out wireless "bullets" that can be used to shock and incapacitate a would-be assailant.
Robots and Machines

This Futuristic Non-Lethal Weapon Will Electrocute Your Enemies

Freeze!

A lobbyist for Chevron was caught asking the company's retirees to oppose legislation supporting electric cars in Arizona.
Advanced Transport

Big Oil Operative Gets Busted Secretly Undermining Electric Cars

This letter-writing campaign turned out to be industry astroturfing — from Chevron.

Scientists built a neural net called GROVER that can create — and identify — fake news better than any human or algorithm out there.
Artificial Intelligence

New AI Generates Horrifyingly Plausible Fake News

But the scientists who built it say it's the best tool against online propaganda.

startup Alaka'i has designed a flying car that the company touts as the "first air mobility vehicle powered by hydrogen fuel cells."
Advanced Transport

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Flying Car Has a Range of 400 Miles

Could hydrogen-powered flying taxis go the extra mile?

The buyer of a $85 million penthouse in Manhattan will get a slew of perks to go with it, including a Hamptons mansion, a yacht, and two tickets to space.
Off-World

This Luxury Apartment Comes With Two Free Tickets to Space

The path to space might run through Manhattan.

The director of China's space agency told the press that scientists are currently attaching scientific instruments to its Mars rover.
Mars

China Is Now Assembling Its 2020 Mars Rover

NASA is the only group ever to land a spacecraft on Mars. China wants to be second.

Hungary is planning on building a fully carbon-neutral town from the ground up in the northwest of the country to boost fruit and vegetable production.
Renewable Energy

Hungary is Building a $1 Billion Carbon-Neutral Town From Scratch

"This investment is the biggest and most complex agricultural and food industrial project of the last few decades."

Google will ban any marijuana or THC products from being sold over apps available on its platform, likely in a bid to be more child-friendly.
Future Society

Google Bans Weed Delivery Apps From Play Store

Selling weed on Google Play conflicts with plans to be child-friendly.

Physicists created a sonic black hole in the lab and then took its temperature — and the measurement seems to confirm a prediction made by Stephen Hawking.
Science & Energy

Scientists Just Took the Temperature of a Lab-Made Black Hole

And the measurement confirms a prediction made by Stephen Hawking.

Volkswagen's futuristic Golf GTI Aurora concept has a high-end sound system in its trunk that can be operated through a hologram.
Advanced Transport

This Volkswagen Prototype Has a Holographic Interface

Tailgates in the future will be awesome.

NASA scientists report that Jupiter's Great Red Spot is shrinking and that it could totally dissipate within the next 20 years.
Off-World

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Is Dying

The iconic oval storm could dissipate in a matter of decades.

Chinese state scientists claim to have developed a network of meter-long radar systems capable of spotting and tracking stealth aircraft.
Military

China Says New Tech Can Detect Stealth Jets Including F-22, F-35

The new system can spot and target radar-skirting stealth planes.

The Navy will outfit a destroyer with the HELIOS laser weapon system for the first time in 2021, and hopes to upgrade the technology from there.
Military

The US Military Is Officially Rolling out Its HELIOS Laser Weapon

It'll be the last line of defense against missiles from China or Russia.

Amazon's new privacy updates for its Alexa voice assistant are a step in the right direction, but the company still has a lot of ground to make up.
Artificial Intelligence

You Can Now Tell Alexa to Delete Everything You Said Today

Amazon is making it slightly easier for you to control your private data.

According to the World Health Organization, burnout is now a fully-recognized work-related psychological condition and can be diagnosed as such.
Health & Medicine

So Tired: Doctors Can Now Diagnose You With Burnout

The World Health Organization finally recognized work-related exhaustion.

For the first time ever, astronomers have discovered a "forbidden planet" in an orbit previously thought to be impossible.
Off-World

Astronomers Find Distant “Forbidden Planet” In “Neptunian Desert”

This alien world whips around its sun every 1.3 days.

After using AI to analyze "junk" DNA, a Princeton-led team concluded that mutations within the noncoding DNA can cause autism.
DNA

Princeton Scientists: Mutations in “Junk” DNA Can Cause Autism

The impact of their research could shed light on many other disorders.