High Schooler Created a Drug Discovery Search Engine – Freethink

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


@freethink.com | 3 years ago

YouTuber Builds VR Gloves for Just $22

YouTuber Lucas VRTech developed a pair of open source, finger-tracking VR gloves that cost just $22 in materials. | Continue reading


@freethink.com | 3 years ago

NASA Set to Run Tabletop Exercise of Asteroid Impact

NASA is staging a week-long asteroid impact simulation during which participants will need to respond to a hypothetical impact scenario. | Continue reading


@freethink.com | 3 years ago

Farming robot kills 100k weeds per hour with lasers

Carbon Robotics’ Autonomous Weeder is a smart farming robot that identifies weeds and then kills them using high-power lasers. | Continue reading


@freethink.com | 3 years ago

A Universal Flu Vaccine Has Aced Phase I Trials

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


@freethink.com | 3 years ago

Boom Supersonic CEO: “We can live on the planet the way we would live in a city”

This cost-efficient and environmentally-conscious supersonic jet could become the commercial airliner of the future. | Continue reading


@freethink.com | 4 years ago

Pedot can make our bodies play nice with implanted electronics

Coating implantable electronics in the polymer PEDOT can extend their life, which could make cyborgs more common in the future. | Continue reading


@freethink.com | 4 years ago

DEF Con Hackers Compete to Hijack a Satellite in Orbit

DEF CON’s Space Security Challenge 2020 tasked teams with hacking satellites. The grand prize? Nothing less than the moon. | Continue reading


@freethink.com | 4 years ago

Human-Like “Organ Chips” Could Eliminate Animal Studies

To rapidly test for COVID-19 treatments without animal studies, researchers make a model human body out of “organ chips.” | Continue reading


@freethink.com | 4 years ago

Volunteers Build First Nationwide Database of Police Records

Thousands of volunteers are data scraping public websites to compile police records into a single national database for researchers to mine. | Continue reading


@freethink.com | 4 years ago

Why don't we solve murders anymore? (2017)

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


@freethink.com | 4 years ago

An LSD Trip “Off-Switch” May Be Coming Soon

Pharmaceutical startup MindMed is developing tech it believes could serve as an “off switch” for an LSD trip during therapy sessions. | Continue reading


@freethink.com | 4 years ago

Welcome to Morgan’s Wonderland: A Truly Inclusive Amusement Park (2019)

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


@freethink.com | 4 years ago

Y Combinator Startups Turn Resources Toward Coronavirus

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


@freethink.com | 4 years ago

Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s, Tourette’s

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@freethink.com | 4 years ago

Underwater Drones Are Probing Earth’s Interior

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


@freethink.com | 4 years ago

What Is Static Electricity? We May Finally Have an Answer

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


@freethink.com | 4 years ago

Take a Trip – Hopkins Psychedelic Research Center

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


@freethink.com | 5 years ago

Author breaks down humankind’s attempts at extraterrestrial communication

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


@freethink.com | 5 years ago

Carbon Capture Technology Could Solve Climate Change

Cutting-edge carbon capture technology is bringing the world’s top scientists and engineers much closer to solving the climate change puzzle. | Continue reading


@freethink.com | 5 years ago

Female scientists were written out of history books

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


@freethink.com | 5 years ago

Coral Reefs Are Dying, but Here’s Why There’s Still Hope

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


@freethink.com | 5 years ago

The First Floating Dairy Farm

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


@freethink.com | 5 years ago