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• Watch Elon Musk's rescue "submarine" for the Thai soccer boys' team in testing

  Elon Musk offered his support to the Thai soccer team rescue mission by promising to have a "kid-size submarine" built - ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Scientific publishing is rigged — at our expense

  If ‘money makes the world go round,’ then the world of scientific publishing has proved to be no exception to the rule. When ...

  • Anita Schjøll Brede

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  Watch MIT's blind robot run, jump, and climb stairs

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Amazon could be delivering to the Moon by 2023

  At least, as long as Jeff Bezos' other company, Blue Origin, chooses to do business with them instead of a different company ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Scientists created an artificial neural network out of DNA

  Caltech researchers created a functioning artificial neural network out of DNA. It can read patterns based on handwritten ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Scientists are slaughtering radio-tracked hornets to save the bees

  Bees and other pollinators are pretty important to, you know, life as we know it. Unfortunately, things aren't always rosy for our buzzing friends. Aside from habitat loss, parasites, and pesticides, they also have to deal with a burgeoning population of bee-eating Asian hornets. ...

  • Callum Booth

• Scientists can now use sound waves to detect cancer

  Researchers from Duke University, MIT and Nanyang Technological University have demonstrated how sound waves can be used ...

  • Callum Booth

• Electrical shock therapy shows new promise against violent behavior

  Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania are bringing the classics back, namely electrical shock treatment. A new study ...

  • Tristan Greene

• How quantum computers will change everything without you noticing

  Everyone keeps saying quantum computers are going to change everything, but how come we're still buying regular ones? Chances ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Chinese AI beats 15 doctors in tumor diagnosis competition

  An AI system has wiped the floor with some of China's top doctors when it comes to diagnosing brain tumors and predicting hematoma ...

  • Callum Booth

• Chinese firm claims its laser rifle burns clothes and skin up to 800 meters away

  A Chinese firm wants to arm the country's police forces with a whole new kind of weapon for the battlefield: an assault rifle ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Honda pulls the plug on its cute ASIMO humanoid robots

  ASIMO, Honda’s 18 year old humanoid robot project, and the brainchild for their quest for self-balancing bipedal robots, ...

  • Vishwam Sankaran