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NASA announced a new contest in which contestants are asked to come up with a design for a space garden capable of growing crops.
NASA

New NASA Contest Seeks Way to Grow a Space Garden

You can’t colonize the cosmos without a balanced breakfast.

Astrobiologists believe that the answer to what alien life could look like on icy moons like Saturn's moon Enceladus could lie deep on the ocean floor.
Science & Energy

Aliens on Icy Moons Could Look Like Organisms Near Seafloor Volcanoes

An underwater volcano near the Big Island of Hawaii could be the perfect analog for Saturn's moon Enceladus.

To prevent farm animals from contribute to methane emissions, scientists suggest feeding them foods less likely to produce the greenhouse gas.
Climate Change

Gut Microbe Manipulation Could End Climate-Destroying Sheep Farts

We could cut the methane off at its source.

Casinos in China are using artifiical intelligence and facial recognition tools to track and cater to gamblers who are more likely to make riskier bets.
Facial recognition

Chinese Casinos Use AI, Facial Recognition to Spot Suckers

Algorithms learn to figure out which high rollers will part with the most cash.

Researchers achieved quantum teleportation within a diamond, an achievement that could shape how we share and store sensitive information in the future.
Quantum Physics

Physicists Just Teleported Quantum Information Inside a Diamond

The achievement could shape how we share and store sensitive information in the future.

New lab-grown mini brains are the most advanced yet, spontaneously forming into neural circuits resembling the cerebral cortex and mirroring brain activity.
Brain

New Lab-Grown Mini Brains Are the Most Advanced Yet

The organelles can even mimic some complex neural activity.

Google just announced plans to build its third private undersea internet cable, expected to begin connecting Europe and Africa in 2021.
Science & Energy

Google’s Next Subsea Internet Cable to Connect Africa and Europe

The company claims "Equiano" will improve the continents' online infrastructure.

SpinLaunch, a company that specializes in a space katapult launch system, just signed a contract with the U.S. Department of Defense's Innovation Unit (DIU).
Off-World

Hypersonic Space Catapult Startup Signs Military Contract

Slinging satellites into space wouldn't require rockets or propellants.

A new molecule latches onto uranium isotopes, making them easier for the kidneys to guide out of the bodies of people suffering from uranium poisoning.
Health & Medicine

This Molecular “Claw” Pulls Uranium From Irradiated Mice

It removed four times more uranium from their kidneys than existing treatments.

As part of project Dragonfly, NASA is planning to send a small spacecraft to Saturn's moon Titan, a moon with an extremely dense atmosphere.
Moon

Breaking: NASA Announces Mission to Saturn’s Largest Moon Titan

The Dragonfly mission will send a tiny rotorcraft to the ocean world to look for signs of life.

Contrails given off by airplanes contribute more to global warming than we thought. By 2050, they'll warm the planet twice as much as the plane's emissions.
Environment

Airplane Contrails Might Actually be a Problem for the Environment

The heat trapped by contrails will triple by 2050.

The White House plans to host a social media summit on July 11, but so far, none of the expected invitees have commented on the event.
Future Society

Trump Slams Tech Titans, White House Announces Social Media Summit

"We should sue Facebook. Think Mark Zuckerberg will come to my party?" – Trump, probably

Elon Musk just revealed that the base model Roadster will accelerate from 0-60 mph in just over two seconds "before adding rocket thruster option."
Advanced Transport

Musk: Roadster to Go 0-60 in 2.1 Seconds “Before Thruster Option”

You'll have to pay extra to cross the two-second threshold.

By stacking two layers of graphene, physicists produced entirely new quantum states that they think might help overcome a major hurdle to quantum computers.
Graphene

Stacking Graphene Creates Entirely New Quantum States

The "supermaterial" has a super power we didn't know about.

The biggest supplier of police body cameras and software called Axon just called it quits on using AI-powered facial recognition systems for its devices.
Facial recognition

Police Body Camera Maker Decides Against Using Facial Recognition

There's a growing backlash against using facial recognition for law enforcement.

A new set of equations can make sense of the physics behind turbulence, letting scientists better understand weather and the ways galaxies form.
Physics

New Turbulence Models Could Predict Galaxy Formation

As it tumbles outward, turbulence tends to fall into a uniform pattern.

Amazon's re:MARS conference for emerging artificial intelligence technology was more of a thinly-veiled advertisement for Amazon's own goals.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazon’s Re:Mars AI Conference Was Like a “Cloud Computing Cult”

The event was packed with promotions for Amazon Web Services.

Elon Musk took to Twitter to compare an Earth-to-Earth trip aboard SpaceX's powerful Starship rocket to a ride on Disney's Space Mountain roller coaster.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Compares Rocket Rides to Disney Roller Coaster

Please keep your hands inside the spacecraft at all times.

By embedding engineered bacteria into the fingers of a robot arm, researchers have created a biohybrid bot that can "taste" for certain chemicals.
Robotics

Robot Arm Uses Bacteria in Its Fingers to “Taste” Its Environment

Robots are becoming better equipped to respond to the world around them.

The U.S. Special Forces are developing a device that can detect a person's unique cardiac signature using an IR laser from a distance.
Science & Energy

New Laser Can Identify People From a Distance By Their Heartbeat

The device can detect tiny vibrations caused by heartbeats from over 650 feet away.