While looking for drugs to potentially fight Alzheimer’s, a high school researcher's AI did “comically” bad, until he thought of it as a search engine. | Continue reading
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NASA is staging a week-long asteroid impact simulation during which participants will need to respond to a hypothetical impact scenario. | Continue reading
Carbon Robotics’ Autonomous Weeder is a smart farming robot that identifies weeds and then kills them using high-power lasers. | Continue reading
Influenza’s constant genetic shifting means flu vaccines aim at a moving target. But a universal flu vaccine just passed its phase 1 trials. | Continue reading
This cost-efficient and environmentally-conscious supersonic jet could become the commercial airliner of the future. | Continue reading
Coating implantable electronics in the polymer PEDOT can extend their life, which could make cyborgs more common in the future. | Continue reading
DEF CON’s Space Security Challenge 2020 tasked teams with hacking satellites. The grand prize? Nothing less than the moon. | Continue reading
To rapidly test for COVID-19 treatments without animal studies, researchers make a model human body out of “organ chips.” | Continue reading
Thousands of volunteers are data scraping public websites to compile police records into a single national database for researchers to mine. | Continue reading
The data suggests that most murderers in America get away with it. How did we get here, and what can we do about it? | Continue reading
Pharmaceutical startup MindMed is developing tech it believes could serve as an “off switch” for an LSD trip during therapy sessions. | Continue reading
This dad couldn’t find a theme park that worked for his daughter with special needs - so he built one. Watch now to meet the man making a difference for everyone in his inclusive amusement park. | Continue reading
More than 25 Y Combinator startups have joined the COVID-19 response effort — find out how you can help these businesses fighting the coronavirus. | Continue reading
The Earth’s interior may be the last wild frontier, but not for long. These underwater drones are scanning the ocean to create a 3D model of its internal dynamics. | Continue reading
This model, created by doctoral students, provides a convincing explanation for a mystery that is thousands of years old - the cause of static electricity. | Continue reading
Johns Hopkins is throwing its considerable clout behind the fast-growing field of psychedelic research, pouring $17 million into a research center to study the hallucinogenic drugs. | Continue reading
Let's imagine aliens exist. How would you send them a message they can understand? And what would you say? Daniel Oberhaus has a few ideas. | Continue reading
Cutting-edge carbon capture technology is bringing the world’s top scientists and engineers much closer to solving the climate change puzzle. | Continue reading
Margaret Rossiter has made it her lifework to spotlight female scientists who were written out of history books through systematic censorship. Read our Q&A with this groundbreaking historian. | Continue reading
Coral reefs are the foundation of ocean life, and yet 50% of them have been lost. Here’s why coral reefs are dying and what one group is doing to stop it. | Continue reading
In the search for more sustainable methods of global food production, one couple in the Netherlands is taking an unconventional approach: they have become the operators of the world's first and only floating dairy farm. | Continue reading