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From Quarks to Quasars

Newtonian Physics vs. Special Relativity

Moleculin Biotech, a company that conducts clinical research for cancer treatments, found a way to speed up the process by moving its research to Poland.
Health & Medicine

Expensive US Drug Trials Are Pushing Pharma Research Overseas

Poland offers a low-cost alternative to American trials, where participants are in high demand.

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis wants to make sure that AI is built to serve, not conquer humanity, and wants to make sure important choices aren't automated.
Artificial Intelligence

Meet the Rabbi Fighting Back Against AI Armageddon

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis is troubled by AI that makes morals-based decisions.

U.S. internet service provider (ISP) Cox Communications is offering a new tier of internet service called "Elite Gamer" for an additional $15 a month.
Future Society

An Internet Provider Is Selling an “Elite Gamer” Service

"Fast lane" internet is exactly what net neutrality supporters have been fighting against.

No matter how cute or emotionally-savvy some robots may seem, experts warn that it's an illusion. Artificial intelligence simply isn't that sophisticated.
Robotics

Expert Warns Against Forming Emotional Attachments With Robots

In spite of their cute designs, robots can't love you back.

AI researcher Os Keyes envisions several "nightmare scenarios" for transgendered people that could result from the deployment of facial recognition tech.
Facial recognition

Researcher: Facial Recognition Tech Could Get Trans People Killed

"The worst case scenario is...they end up shot or arrested or harassed."

A scientist argues that the sheer volume of potentially habitable planets and moons coupled with the existence of water in space makes life inevitable.
Off-World

Scientist: “Alien Life Now Seems Inevitable and Possibly Imminent”

"The ancient question 'Are we alone?' has graduated from being a philosophical musing to a testable hypothesis."

A UK college has launched the Imperial Centre for Psychedelic Research — the world's first formal center for research into psychedelics.
Health & Medicine

World’s First Center for Psychedelics Research Opens in UK

It'll focus on the use of psychedelics for mental health care and the study of consciousness.

Amazon's AI automatically tracked and fired hundreds of fulfillment center employees for failing to meet productivity quotas.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Used An AI to Automatically Fire Low-Productivity Workers

It's a grim glimpse of a future in which AI is your boss — and you're disposable.

UK-based design agency Layer teamed up with Chinese electric car maker Nio to create a smart scooter that can learn where you want to go.
Artificial Intelligence

Autonomous Scooter Uses AI to Learn Your Favorite Routes

You didn't know you needed a smart, self-navigating scooter.

Next week, the European Space Agency will live-tweet an exercise where volunteers play out how a hypothetical asteroid impact might unfold.
Off-World

The European Space Agency Will Live-Tweet a Mock Asteroid Impact

The plan is to predict how things would unfold around a catastrophic asteroid impact.

Researchers have created a nanofiber yarn that allows damaged muscles and tendons to continue healing even without movement restrictions.
Nanotech

New “Nanofiber Yarn” Keeps Cells Alive While Injured Tissues Heal

It could mean no more movement restrictions while recovering from muscle and tendon injuries.

The AI Group Elon Musk Quit Just Released An Amazing Music AI
Elon Musk

The AI Group Elon Musk Quit Just Released An Amazing Music AI

Here's your chance to listen to Rachmaninoff's take on Adele's Someone Like You.

New data from the Hubble Space Telescope all-but confirms past findings that the rate of the universe's expansion has accelerated over time.
Off-World

Hubble Data: The Universe Is Expanding Faster and Faster

But we don't know why it's speeding up.

This Martian Greenhouse Concept Just Won a NASA Award
NASA

This Martian Greenhouse Concept Just Won a NASA Award

Up to eight different food crops could sustain four astronauts over 600 days on Mars.

The newest version of the Brave web browser lets users opt into a program that will pay them in cryptocurrency to watch ads.
Future Society

Ad-Blocking Web Browser Will Now Pay You Crypto to Watch Ads

But don't expect to be able to spend it on yourself just yet.

A couple from Massachusetts found a way to train a neural network to tell apart real oil paintings from Dutch painter Rembrandt from imitations. 
Artificial Intelligence

A New AI Can Spot Art Forgeries

The neural network has one simple trick to identify an imitation from the real thing.

A lawyer argues that we should set up international agreements that would let us nuke an incoming asteroid before it's too late.
Off-World

Lawyer: Make a Rule Saying We Can Nuke Apocalyptic Asteroids

When it comes to extinction, an expert argues that political niceties should come second.

Lyft's Grocery Access Program offers people living in food deserts with discounted rides to grocery stores, giving them healthier food options.
Future Society

Lyft Expands Program to Help Families Get Healthy Groceries

The program is helping Americans overcome the barrier to nutritious food.

Japan's asteroid bomb created a crater much larger than expected, leading scientists to wonder if there's something they don't know about the asteroid.
Science & Energy

New Image Shows Aftermath of Japan’s Asteroid Bomb

It turns out, the projectile packed more of a punch than anticipated.