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NASA Is Looking For New Ways to Detect Alien Technology

NASA Is Looking For New Ways to Detect Alien Technology

By Kristin Houser

Reports: Elon Musk Turned Down an SEC Settlement

Reports: Elon Musk Turned Down an SEC Settlement

By Jon Christian

Preventing bird collisions with planes and other manmade objects could be as simply as adding red or blue LEDs to our creations.

Science & Energy

Planes Kill Huge Numbers of Birds. LEDs Could Save Their Lives.

By Kristin Houser

By labeling edited social media photos as edited, we could decrease thin ideal internalization, the belief that a woman would be better if she were thinner.

Labelling Edited Selfies on Social Media Might Make Us Less Miserable

By Kristin Houser

This robotic finger attaches to a smartphone or tablet, allowing the device to crawl itself across a table or stroke the back of a user's hand.

Robots and Machines

Look at This Creepy Finger You Can Plug Into Your Smartphone

By Kristin Houser

Breaking: Hackers Accessed 50 Million Facebook Accounts

Breaking: Hackers Accessed 50 Million Facebook Accounts

By Jon Christian

Ludicrous Mode: SEC Sues Elon Musk, Causing a Quick Drop in Tesla Stock

Ludicrous Mode: SEC Sues Elon Musk, Causing a Quick Drop in Tesla Stock

By Kristin Houser

Paint it Clear: This Coating Could Make Your AC Obsolete

Science & Energy

Paint it Clear: This Coating Could Make Your AC Obsolete

By Kristin Houser

If We Want Drone Delivery To Be A Reality, We’ve Gotta Keep It Simple

If We Want Drone Delivery To Be A Reality, We’ve Gotta Keep It Simple

By Jon Christian

A high-tech suit vibrates to let users feel music — a new way for everyone to experience sound, according to its creators, but especially for deaf people.

Prosthetics and Devices

Make Music A Full Body Experience With A “Vibro-Tactile” Suit

By Jon Christian

Automation is eating into food and hospitality jobs. Unions are demanding measures that will protect staff from being replaced by robots.

Artificial Intelligence

Robots Are Coming for Service Jobs

By Jon Christian

For the first time ever, researchers have discovered radio jets launching from a neutron star with a strong magnetic field.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Discover a New Source of Spectacular Radio Jets

By Kristin Houser

MIT researchers have created Fiberbots, autonomous robots that can weave fiberglass into tall tubes that we could one day use for construction projects.

These Robots Weave Super Durable Fiberglass Structures So Humans Don’t Have To

By Kristin Houser

A new NIH program aims to sequence the DNA of a million volunteers, to better understand genetic variation between people and develop new treatments.

Health & Medicine

Everyone’s Genome Is Different. That’s Why Scientists Are About to Sequence a Million of Them.

By Jon Christian

This week, Philippine inventor Kyxz Mendiola took his Koncepto Milenya, a flying sports car prototype, out for its first public test flight.

This “Flying Sports Car” Is Like a Giant Drone You Can Ride In

By Kristin Houser

Researchers in Hong Kong have invented a robot that looks like a caterpillar. It's designed to travel through your body and release drugs.

Scientists Want to Put a Horrifying Caterpillar Robot Inside Your Body

By Jon Christian

Researchers have created an AI that can identify a person with 92 percent accuracy after recording just seven consecutive footsteps.

Artificial Intelligence

Tread Lightly: This AI Can Identify You by Monitoring Your Footsteps

By Kristin Houser

Japanese space exploration company ispace is teaming up with SpaceX on two lunar missions, one in mid-2020 and the other in mid-2021.

SpaceX Will Send Another Company’s Robots to the Moon in 2021

By Kristin Houser

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Culturally Sensitive Robots Are Here to Care for the Elderly

By Kristin Houser

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Scientists Wiped Out a Mosquito Population by Hacking Their DNA With CRISPR

By Kristin Houser

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Spotify Will Make a Playlist Based on Your DNA

By Jon Christian

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Science & Energy

We Can Now See Individual Cells in This Mummy’s Hand

By Jon Christian

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Artificial Intelligence

This AI Stops People From Lighting up Cigarettes at the Gas Pump

By Kristin Houser

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Artificial Intelligence

This Musician Created an AI to Write Songs For Him, And They’re Pretty Strange

By Kristin Houser

Steel Is A Huge Polluter. New Technologies Could Make it Green.

Science & Energy

Steel Is A Huge Polluter. New Technologies Could Make it Green.

By Jon Christian

Scientists Just Took A “Spectacular Step” Towards Lab-Grown Human Egg Cells

Health & Medicine

Scientists Just Took A “Spectacular Step” Towards Lab-Grown Human Egg Cells

By Kristin Houser

Here Are the First Photos Japan’s Robot Landers Sent Back From an Asteroid

Here Are the First Photos Japan’s Robot Landers Sent Back From an Asteroid

By Kristin Houser

Electrical Stimulation Helped A Man With Paralyzed Legs Walk Again

Health & Medicine

Electrical Stimulation Helped A Man With Paralyzed Legs Walk Again

By Kristin Houser

Social Media Games Your Psychology. Ethical Design Could Change That.

Social Media Games Your Psychology. Ethical Design Could Change That.

By Jon Christian

Americans Are Living Longer. That Will Mean More People With Alzheimer’s.

Health & Medicine

Americans Are Living Longer. That Will Mean More People With Alzheimer’s.

By Kristin Houser

Ten Crypto Exchanges Told Us How They Work. Looks Like They’re at Least as Sketchy as We Thought.

Ten Crypto Exchanges Told Us How They Work. Looks Like They’re at Least as Sketchy as We Thought.

By Kristin Houser

CDC officials have traced an outbreak of the antibiotic-resistant bacteria Campylobacter jejuni to pet-store puppies unnecessarily prescribed antibiotics.

Pet Store Puppies Are Spreading Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

By Kristin Houser

One Way to Sate South Africa’s Thirst: Bring in an Iceberg

Science & Energy

One Way to Sate South Africa’s Thirst: Bring in an Iceberg

By Jon Christian

Japan's space agency just deployed two asteroid-exploring robots from its Hayabusa2 spacecraft, and they could teach us about the solar system's past.

A Pair of Japanese Robots (Hopefully) Just Landed on an Asteroid

By Kristin Houser

Facebook Makes Dating Service “Facebook Official”

Facebook Makes Dating Service “Facebook Official”

By Kristin Houser

Traveling To Mars Will Blast Astronauts With Deadly Cosmic Radiation, New Data Shows

Traveling To Mars Will Blast Astronauts With Deadly Cosmic Radiation, New Data Shows

By Kristin Houser

Researchers have created a synthetic skin that could give people with prosthetics the ability to sense touch with super-human sensitivity.

Prosthetics and Devices

“Synthetic Skin” Could Give Prosthesis Users a Superhuman Sense of Touch

By Kristin Houser

MIT data scientists say a new approach that uses deep learning to detect credit card fraud could cut false positives in half.

Artificial Intelligence

New AI Could Stop Your Bank From Freezing Your Card When You Buy Something Weird

By Jon Christian

Here’s Why Google Built an AI-Powered Lion Statue That Spits out Poems

Here’s Why Google Built an AI-Powered Lion Statue That Spits out Poems

By Jon Christian

Researchers have created the first lab-grown esophagus using pluripotent stem cells, and it could help identify new treatments for digestive disorders.

Health & Medicine

Why Scientists Grew a Tiny Human Esophagus in a Lab

By Kristin Houser

UK researchers are now testing RemoveDEBRIS, a satellite designed to trap space debris in a net so it can be removed before it damages spacecraft.

UK Researchers Just Deployed a Massive Net to Catch Space Debris

By Kristin Houser

People Are Zapping Their Brains to Boost Creativity. Experts Have Concerns.

People Are Zapping Their Brains to Boost Creativity. Experts Have Concerns.

By Jon Christian

Researchers from the University of Tokyo have created the strongest-ever controllable magnetic field, and it could help make nuclear fusion a reality.

This Super Powerful Magnetic Field Puts Us One Step Closer to Nuclear Fusion

By Kristin Houser

Yale researchers have created a robotic skin that they can wrap around inanimate objects to give them the ability to move.

This “Robotic Skin” Can Turn Pretty Much Anything Into a Robot

By Kristin Houser

A consortium of prominent energy and financial institutions say they'll soon start trading commodities on a new blockchain platform called Komgo.

All Our Stuff Is Gonna Be Traded on the Blockchain, Finance Companies Say

By Jon Christian

Clearing Faulty Cells Out Of The Brain May Stave Off Cognitive Decline

Clearing Faulty Cells Out Of The Brain May Stave Off Cognitive Decline

By Dan Robitzski

A major auto manufacturing alliance has tapped Google to create the next generation of built-in media displays for its vehicles.

Google Thinks It Can Make Your Car’s Dashboard Not Suck

By Kristin Houser

DARPA just unveiled a research project that lets people control multiple jet planes at once with just their thoughts. For now, it requires invasive surgery.

Military Pilots Can Control Three Jets at Once via a Neural Implant

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just shared the first image produces by Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a satellite designed to help in the hunt for exoplanets.

Science & Energy

See the First Image Produced by NASA’s Newest Planet Hunter

By Kristin Houser

Alphabet AI Is Helping Release Sterile Mosquitoes in Singapore

Artificial Intelligence

Alphabet AI Is Helping Release Sterile Mosquitoes in Singapore

By Kristin Houser

Mild-Mannered Botnet Hunts Down Malware so It Can Fix It

Artificial Intelligence

Mild-Mannered Botnet Hunts Down Malware so It Can Fix It

By Jon Christian

IKEA’s Got Some Strange, Beautiful Ideas About What AVs Might Look Like

Advanced Transport

IKEA’s Got Some Strange, Beautiful Ideas About What AVs Might Look Like

By Jon Christian

This AI Dreams Up Brain Tumor Scans to Train Other AIs

Artificial Intelligence

This AI Dreams Up Brain Tumor Scans to Train Other AIs

By Kristin Houser

Live Update: SpaceX Unveils Future Moon Passenger

Live Update: SpaceX Unveils Future Moon Passenger

By Kristin Houser

Elon Musk Tweeted Some Very Cool New Renders of the Big Falcon Rocket

Elon Musk Tweeted Some Very Cool New Renders of the Big Falcon Rocket

By Kristin Houser

Germany Just Rolled Out the World’s First Hydrogen-Powered Trains

Science & Energy

Germany Just Rolled Out the World’s First Hydrogen-Powered Trains

By Kristin Houser

Oregon Breweries Now Sell Beer In Reusable Bottles

Science & Energy

Oregon Breweries Now Sell Beer In Reusable Bottles

By Jon Christian

Lawmakers: Deepfakes Could “Undermine Public Trust” in “Objective Depictions of Reality”

Artificial Intelligence

Lawmakers: Deepfakes Could “Undermine Public Trust” in “Objective Depictions of Reality”

By Jon Christian

Rappers Are Making Tesla Sexy, Which Might Be Good For the Planet

Rappers Are Making Tesla Sexy, Which Might Be Good For the Planet

By Alexandra Ossola

Researchers Just Got Funding to Grow a Neural Network in a Petri Dish

Artificial Intelligence

Researchers Just Got Funding to Grow a Neural Network in a Petri Dish

By Jon Christian

A New Contest Is Looking For AI That Can Fix How We Get Our News

Artificial Intelligence

A New Contest Is Looking For AI That Can Fix How We Get Our News

By Dan Robitzski

Behold: A Robot That Can Do Improv Comedy Just as Badly as a Human

Artificial Intelligence

Behold: A Robot That Can Do Improv Comedy Just as Badly as a Human

By Jon Christian

Never Heard of Edge Computing? It’s About to Make Augmented Reality Way Better.

Virtual Reality

Never Heard of Edge Computing? It’s About to Make Augmented Reality Way Better.

By Kristin Houser

Plastics Made Without BPA Might Also Be Bad For You

Health & Medicine

Plastics Made Without BPA Might Also Be Bad For You

By Jon Christian