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According to researchers from Imperial College London, the party drug MDMA could be an effective treatment for alcohol addiction.
Neuroscience and Brain

Study: MDMA Appears to Be an Effective Treatment for Alcoholism

"It’s the perfect drug for trauma-focused psychotherapy.”

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists found a less intensive, more effective cure against the most dangerous strain of tuberculosis, which infects 10 million every year.
RX and Medicine

We Have a Cure for the Deadliest Form of Tuberculosis

Patients need to take five pills every day for six months.

By Dan Robitzski

The New York Police Department is growing a massive DNA database of thousands of genetic profiles, The New York Times reports.
Future Society

Police Are Collecting DNA From People Without Telling Them

A 12-year-old had a sample of his DNA collected from a straw after talking to the police.

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists believe they spotted the supernova of the largest star to ever detonate, giving them a glimpse into the universe's past.
Science & Energy

This Is the Most Brutal Supernova in Recorded History

It took scientists years to believe what they saw.

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers from Harvard's Wyss Institute developed a pair of stride-enhancing, wearable robotic shorts to make walking easier.
Prosthetics and Devices

Scientists Built Robo-Shorts to Make Walking Easier

Harvard's stride-enhancing shorts could put an extra spring your step.

By Jacob Banas

Elon Musk tweeted "Nuke Mars!" on Thursday, likely to double down on his ill-advised dream of terraforming the Red Planet through nuclear strikes.
Mars

Elon Musk Really, Really Wants to Nuke Mars

He's tweeting again.

By Dan Robitzski

Virgin Galactic revealed on Thursday what its spaceport at its new New Mexico home looks like — a beautiful vision of the airport's space successor.
Advanced Transport

Virgin Galactic Unveils Luxurious Spaceport Lounge

This is where you'll wait to board a rocket to space — if you can afford it.

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook announced that it plans to extend its fact-checking program to Instagram, but it's not clear that checking memes will accomplish anything.
Future Society

Instagram Wants to Fact-Check Your Memes

But it's not clear that it'll help.

By Dan Robitzski

In an attempt to convince its two billion users that it truly cares about their privacy, Facebook is opening a number of pop-up privacy check-up cafes.
Privacy

Facebook is Opening Privacy Check-Up Cafes, for Some Reason

After all, it's up to you to protect your data — not Facebook.

By Victor Tangermann

During its debut flight, Norway's electric plane crash-landed into a lake. The country still hopes to electrify all domestic aircraft by 2040.
Advanced Transport

Norway’s New Electric Plane Crashes During Demo Flight

"This is not good for the work we do."

By Dan Robitzski

An army of clearly-fake "Amazon FC Ambassador" accounts once more flooded Twitter to brag about a job that offers great perks like "using a real bathroom."
Science & Energy

Those Obviously-Fake Amazon Warehouse Workers Are Still Tweeting

"Actually, we aren't robots!"

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon confirmed that those bizarre "fulfillment center ambassadors" on Twitter are actually real employees, not the bizarre chatbots that they sound like.
Future Society

Amazon: Those Bizarre Brand Ambassadors Are Real Employees

Amazon is paying people to tweet about their numerous bathroom breaks.

By Dan Robitzski

DARPA's Subterranean Challenge is kicking off today, and robotics teams from across the nation are mapping underground environments with robots.
Robotics

These Robots Could One Day Explore Caves on Distant Planets

"If there is life in the solar system, these are the most likely places to harbor it."

By Victor Tangermann

Now there's an AI assistant to help DJs pick songs for their sets in real time. It's unclear what, exactly, is left for the DJ to do.
Artificial Intelligence

If You Were Worried DJs Were Working Too Hard, This Idiotic AI Literally Picks Songs for Them

It's like going to a concert where someone just plugged in their iPod Shuffle.

By Dan Robitzski

Report: The World’s First Solar Road is an Absolute Disaster
Advanced Transport

Report: The World’s First Solar Road is an Absolute Disaster

Thunderstorms and rotting leaves did a number on the road's solar panels.

By Victor Tangermann

It turns out that the NSA, the secretive intelligence agency, uses the same version of the messaging app Slack as your office.
Future Society

The NSA Won’t Say Anything About Its Slack Account

The government agency uses an off-the-shelf messaging app.

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers from Florida Atlantic University (FAU) set out with an ambitious task, to build a robodog which combined all the best parts of Siri, 3D-printing, and robots like Boston Dynamics SpotMini.
Boston Dynamics

This Boston Dynamics-Esque Bot Has Horrifying, Human-Like Eyes

It looks like it's wearing the eyes of its last victim.

By Jacob Banas

To carry their dirt bikes into the desert, an electric car conversion company chopped off the back of a damaged Tesla Model S to turn it into a pickup.
Tesla

Watch This Hacked-Together Tesla “Pickup” Do Wicked Donuts

"Epiphany! Let's go chop off a Tesla."

By Victor Tangermann

For the past few months, UPS has sent giant self-driving trucks on the roads to deliver cargo loads between Phoenix, Tucson, and Arizona.
Self-Driving Vehicles

UPS Has Been Quietly Shipping Packages on Self-Driving Trucks

The company announced a minority stake in an autonomous trucking startup.

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk has said that he hopes Neuralink will help people keep pace with future AI. But psychologist Susan Scheider warns that would be ill-advised.
Brain

Scientist: Merging Your Brain With AI Would Basically Be Suicide

"You could augment your intelligence with chips, but there will be a point at which you end your life."

By Dan Robitzski