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A drone just flew through an Icelandic cave and generated a 3D map of the area in minutes, in a test run for systems that will do the same on Mars.
NASA

The drone quickly completed a test run in Iceland.

By Dan Robitzski

A new antimicrobial coating kept bacteria from growing on the International Space Station's door, which could protect immune-compromised astronauts.
International Space Station

A new antimicrobial coating could give the ISS bathroom a much-needed cleaning.

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers invented a "toilet seat–based cardiovascular monitoring system" that could help hospitals monitor congestive heart failure patients.
Health & Medicine

Heart disease accounts for one in every four deaths a year in the U.S. Maybe this toilet seat can help.

By Victor Tangermann

Indian police just caught a man who was smuggling a live, human embryo into the country from Malaysia, where fertility treatments are more expensive.
Health & Medicine

Durai had hidden the embryo in a "nitrogen-packed canister."

By Dan Robitzski

Faced with a critical land shortage, the city of Hong Kong is planning to build one of the most ambitious artificial islands in the history of the world.
Future Society

Hong Kong wants to build one most ambitious artificial islands in the history of the world.

By Jon Christian

China just closed the bidding period for contractors looking to build the country's first nuclear-powered icebreaker, set to be the largest in the world.
Nuclear Fusion

Designed to grind and smash through ice, it'll be one of the most epic ships on Earth.

By Dan Robitzski

NASA collaborators admitted that they're not sure what's wrong with the InSight lander's instrument that was supposed to dig into the surface of Mars.
Mars

Something has gone wrong on the Red Planet, according to NASA collaborators.

By Jon Christian

Pilots on board the Lion Air plane that crashed in October "scoured a handbook as they struggled to understand why the jet was lurching downwards."
Boeing

"It is like a test where there are 100 questions and when the time is up you have only answered 75."

By Victor Tangermann

Though Google's Project Dragonfly made headlines, a number of American scientists are helping Chinese build its ubiquitous surveillance state.
Education

MIT and Yale — and possibly Microsoft — are helping build China's surveillance state.

By Dan Robitzski

A new report by UBS predicts that soon high speed travel through the near reaches of space will compete with long-haul airline flights.
Advanced Transport

"Space tourism could be the stepping stone for the development of long-haul travel on earth serviced by space."

By Victor Tangermann

A new report by Spain's IE University found that a quarter of Europeans would rather be governed by artificial intelligence than a human politician.
Artificial Intelligence

They'd rather ditch human politicians and put robots in charge, according to new research.

By Dan Robitzski

A Call to Action on the First Day of Spring to Help Our Planet
Climate Change

A powerful solution to rebalance our planet: trees.

By Dan Lambe, president of the Arbor Day Foundation

Ford is officially building a new self-driving car plant in Michigan aimed at its line-up of next-generation all-electric or hybrid vehicles.
Self-Driving Vehicles

"This facility will be about more than just putting the brains into these autonomous vehicles."

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese officials have cloned a top-performing police dog, state media announced, with the goal of stamping out genetically identical dog cops.
Science & Energy

The goal is to stamp out perfect, identical K-9 units.

By Jon Christian

A panel of scientists just recommended to the Japanese government that CRISPR-edited foods should be declared safe to eat.
Food

This could be a huge moment for global food systems.

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new report the U.S. added 64,389 full-time legal cannabis jobs last year — a 44 percent gain in the workforce in 2018.
Future Society

"US marijuana legalization is a rare example of disruption creating jobs rather than destroying them."

By Victor Tangermann

"Super Worm Moon" and "Super Moon" don't mean anything. They may get people hyped about space, but they can be misleading.
Moon

Calm down, Karen. "Super Moons" happen all the time.

By Jacob Banas

Engineer and author Kevin Morris argues that an "economic singularity" may be coming, where robots and AI can automate all the jobs there are.
Future Society

Automated workplaces are no good if people don't have the incomes to support them.

By Dan Robitzski

With CRISPR gene editing, scientists hope to be able to create human-pig hybrids that will let us grow and harvest life-saving human organs.
Health & Medicine

"It would be horrible to imagine a form of human consciousness locked in the body of an animal."

By Dan Robitzski

A city in South Korea installed flickering lights and laser beams at its crosswalks to grab the attention of "smartphone zombies."
Future Society

Hold on, my phone says there's a car about to run over me.

By Victor Tangermann