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Finding ways to connect the human body to technology could have broad applications in health and entertainment. A new "electric plastic" could make self-powered...

Meta Has Launched the World’s ‘Most Advanced’ Glasses. Will They Replace Smartphones?

October 1, 2024

DNA Computing Evolves: New System Stores Data, Plays Chess, and Solves Sudoku Puzzles

September 20, 2024

Quantum Computers Will Kill Digital Security. These Algorithms Could Stop Them.

August 15, 2024

Bitcoin Miners Flush With Chips Are Pivoting to AI in Search of New Riches

August 6, 2024

Scientists Created Artificial Neurons That Can Make a Venus Flytrap Snap

Edd Gent - February 25, 2022

Metasurfaces Open the Door to Telekinesis and Telepathy With Technology

Shelly Fan - June 28, 2022

IBM’s New Artificial Neurons a Big Step Toward Powerful Brain-Like Computers

Shelly Fan - August 14, 2016

New Chip Rewires Itself Like the Brain to Help AI Learn Continuously

Edd Gent - February 7, 2022

Space

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Europe Aims to Visit This Large Asteroid When It Brushes by Earth in 2029

Or Graur - November 5, 2024

The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called Apophis. If approved at a...

Nuclear Rockets Could Take Us to Mars in Half the Time. NASA Plans to Fly One by 2027.

October 22, 2024

Dusty Snow on Mars Could Harbor Life According to a New NASA Simulation

October 21, 2024

Cosmology Is at a Tipping Point—We May Be on the Verge of Discovering New Physics

September 24, 2024

Scientists Discover New Evidence Earth May Once Have Had a Ring Like Saturn

September 17, 2024

‘Wait But Why’: Elon Musk’s Favorite Blog Makes Good Ideas Available to Everyone, With Cartoons

Aaron Frank - January 20, 2016

Scientists Discover New Evidence Earth May Once Have Had a Ring Like Saturn

Andrew Tomkins - September 17, 2024

Can AI save us from AI?

Jason Dorrier - December 9, 2014

How to Build a Starship — and Why We Should Start Thinking About It Now

Ian Crawford - January 27, 2016

Energy

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Scientists Say Net Zero Aviation Is Possible by 2050—If We Act Now

Edd Gent - September 27, 2024

Aviation has proven to be one of the most stubbornly difficult industries to decarbonize. But a new roadmap outlined by University of Cambridge researchers...

There Are Now More Electric Vehicles Than Gas-Powered Cars in Norway

September 19, 2024

UK Gives Sneak Peek of a Novel Fusion Reactor Shaped Like a Cored Apple

September 12, 2024

Meta Looks to Next-Gen Geothermal to Fuel Ravenous Data Centers

September 9, 2024

The US Is Adding Grid-Scale Batteries at 10 Times the Pace of Natural Gas This Year

September 2, 2024

Magnetizable Concrete in Roads Could Charge Electric Cars While You Drive

Edd Gent - August 9, 2021

Singularity University Comes Home: Global Summit Kicks off Today in San Francisco

Alison E. Berman - August 28, 2016

You Can Buy This Electric Car for $7,999 in California

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - November 12, 2020

Hyundai Goes All-In on Hydrogen With Its ‘Trailer Drone’ and More

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - September 8, 2021

Future

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Could We Ever Decipher an Alien Language? Uncovering How AI Communicates May Be Key

Olaf Lipinski - November 12, 2024

In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language consisting of palindromic phrases,...