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Researchers have created a version of an MRI machine that's so scaled down, it can capture detailed images of individual atoms.
Quantum Physics

World’s Smallest MRI Machine Means We Can Now Scan Individual Atoms

This device could be a massive step into the era of quantum computing.

By Kristin Houser

NASA tested its Orion spacecraft's Launch Abort System (LAS) on Tuesday — and it seems the astronaut escape plan worked exactly as hoped.
NASA

NASA’s Orion Crew Capsule Aced Its Abort System Test

"By all first accounts, it was magnificent."

By Kristin Houser

An in-depth study of 'Oumuamua, the first interstellar visitor to our solar system, seems to finally put to bed the theory that it's an alien spacecraft.
Science & Energy

Sorry, but ’Oumuamua the Asteroid Wasn’t Sent by Aliens, Say Scientists, For Some Reason Dignifying This Yet Again

"‘Oumuamua’s properties are consistent with a natural origin."

By Kristin Houser

The most extravagant Fourth of July fireworks can't hold a candle to the stunning cosmic fireworks display the Hubble telescope has captured.
Off-World

Stunning Cosmic Fireworks Display Captured by Hubble, Right on Time

The images' greatness goes well beyond their beauty.

By Kristin Houser

NASA's TESS mission has a new discovery: a small exoplanet named L 98-59b, the tiniest TESS has ever spotted, which NASA says could have its own atmosphere.
Exoplanets

NASA’s TESS Mission Has Spotted Its Smallest Exoplanet Ever

The little planet clocks in a bit smaller than Earth, but bigger than Mars.

By Natalie Coleman

Soldiers in Afghanistan will be the first in the United States military to use its pocket-sized Black Hornet recon drones.
Drones

US Army Announces First Deployment of Its Pocket-Sized Drones

"This kind of technology will be a life-saver for us..."

By Kristin Houser

You can now peruse online profiles to pick someone you want to hang out with on a platonic level —as long as renting friends is something you can afford.
Future Society

This Is What You Get When You Rent Friends From the Internet

If you have the money, they have the time.

By Kristin Houser

A month after launch, SpaceX confirmed that three of the 60 Starlink satellites it sent into space have failed — and it won't elaborate as to why.
SpaceX

SpaceX Being Sketch(X) About the 3 Starlink Satellites That Failed

The company either doesn’t know why they failed or is keeping the reason a secret.

By Kristin Houser

A massive new survey is designed to determine how the general public feels about aliens and what humans should do if ET ever reaches out.
Off-World

Scientists Want Your Input on Our Alien Response Plan

If aliens came calling, how would you want humanity to react?

By Kristin Houser

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Advanced Transport

Allianz Wants to Tackle the Challenge of Creating Sustainable Urban Living

The global urban population is increasing. Are cities built to sustain them?

By Rachelle Dragani

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.

By Dan Robitzski

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.

By Victor Tangermann

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.

By Kristin Houser

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.

By Dan Robitzski

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.

By Kristin Houser

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.

By Dan Robitzski

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.

By Dan Robitzski

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.

By Victor Tangermann

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.

By Kristin Houser

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.

By Victor Tangermann