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The same parts of the brain that help us navigate complex social interactions can also drive us to make wildly bad investments.
Using image analysis tools developed for astronomy, researchers are predicting cancer therapy responses.
Wireless charging isn’t just for phones and laptops. It could also power medical devices like heart implants.
Some scientists believe that DMT could revolutionize the treatment of depression.
NicoBoard is an app that helps parents make sense of a frightening time.
An innovation’s value is found between the technophile’s promises and the Luddite’s doomsday scenarios.
The famous social robot is about to start rolling off the assembly line.
SpinLaunch’s launcher, which is larger than the Statue of Liberty and works like the Olympic hammer-throw event, just came online in the New Mexico desert.
Technology designed to listen for atomic bombs can also hear tornadoes.
Experts believe they could cut the time it takes a rocket to reach Mars by up to 25%, shaving about two months off the trip.
South Korea is piloting a CCTV system it hopes will save lives.
The new brain tumor treatment targets a cancer that kills 75% of patients within a year.
It could analyze a photo of the Martian surface in just five seconds. NASA scientists need 40 minutes.
Asteroid Bennu is still far more likely to fly right by us than to make impact.
It walked enough miles to nearly circle the Earth twice.
Scientists want to use dream hacking devices to improve your creativity and memory.
One day, we could fly across the U.S. in half an hour. A state-of-the-art hypersonic flight testing facility at UTSA could help make that dream a reality.
Air conditioning may keep a room cool, but using it is heating up the planet. It is time for something new — or old.
China has reached a new record for nuclear fusion at 120 million degrees Celsius.
Russia’s cyberattacks against Ukraine have been prolific and ongoing for several years. The future of war may begin in cyberspace.
Scientists created the mineral lonsdaleite in a lab and tested its strength using sound waves — before it was obliterated.
The first nation to make bitcoin legal tender will use geothermal energy to mine it.
Every star we can see, including our sun, was born in one of these violent clouds.
Space missions in 2022 will include massive rockets and asteroid collisions. This is also the year space tourism starts to hit its stride.
Michio Kaku predicts, among other things, how we’ll build cities on Mars and why cancer will one day be like the common cold.
Space planes could radically lower the cost of spaceflight.
The fully functional plant will serve to demo TerraPower’s nuclear tech.
A lucky discovery involving lithium-sulfur batteries has a legitimate chance to revolutionize how we power our world.
The two-year pilot program will be a test of harm reduction strategies.