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Can this futuristic, driverless tram revitalize abandoned railways?

Would you travel in one of these?

NASA wants to build a swarm of tiny, wedge-shaped robots to look for life on faraway worlds

How to look for life on unfriendly bodies like Europa or Enceladus? Just make a bunch of swimmy robots and have them look for it.

UK’s public health service will use drones to deliver chemotherapy drugs

It's just a trial so far, but it could be expanded if deemed successful.

Are we breeding a generation of racist AI?

It's very easy for AI to reflect the biases and discrimination we already have in society.

Zero-emissions electric boat-plane could transform sea travel

It's a plane. No, it's a boat. No, it's kind of ... both?

This DALL-E mini AI can create original digital paintings of anything -- so why is it obsessed with women in saris?

Try DALL E mini and you'll be obsessed too.

A blue pigment loved by artists could suck up precious metals from your discarded cell phone

Prussian blue changed art in the 18th century. Three hundred years later, the pigment could help solve our electronic and nuclear waste problem.

Virginia is about to 3D-print an entire neighborhood of homes -- and it's cheaper than you think

This unique construction project may fulfill the affordable housing dream of many people living in underserved rural areas.

Researchers develop 'living skin' and graft it onto a robotic finger

Researchers have successfully grown self-healing ‘human-like’ skin on a robotic finger.

No driver required. Autonomous taxis are finally arriving in San Francisco

The cars will only operate in less congested areas and when the weather's good, but it's an important start.

AI on a photonic chip conducts image recognition at the speed of light

By eliminating sensors, memories, processors, and other hardware, this chip can classify images almost instantaneously.

An AI-based voice program did the dialog delivery for Val Kilmer in Top Gun: Maverick

AI is emerging as a useful technology for voice dubbing in films, and looks like even Tom Cruise loves it.

So what happens when a robot files for a patent?

Existing laws only allow for humans as creators -- but some are fighting to change this.

Rock-like thermal camouflage makes soldiers nearly invisible on the battlefield

It's like a real-life invisibility cloak.

What the world's first nuclear waste 'tomb' in Finland could mean for nuclear energy

In tunnels deep underground, Finland will bury nuclear waste safely in copper sarcophagi for at least 100,000 years.

Americans grossly underestimate the range of modern electric vehicles -- and this keeps them from buying one

An EV with a range of 300 kilometers (186 miles) will cover more than 90% of the average person's needs. But most think they need much more than that.

These tiny soft robots can monitor complex environments ranging from deserts to the hot lunar surface

They can get the job done just by using heat and light.

Scientists want to make space bricks out of human urine on Mars

Everything we need to build stuff would already be available on Mars.

Portable briefcase-sized device could make saltwater drinkable

The unit was tested at the beach and it worked on its first run.

New batteries could charge electric vehicles to 60% in 6 minutes

A major tweak to ubiquitous lithium-ion batteries could bring charging time closer to those at the gas station.

The pharmanauts: how will astronauts produce drugs on deep space missions?

Scientists have come up with some pretty inventive ways to produce interstellar drugs -- because astronauts will likely need them.

New magneto-electric transistor cuts energy use while saving space. Here's why this could be huge

This could be the next major iteration in computing.

The Journey To Complete Meat Substitution: Are We There Yet?

Meat replacements are coming.

Researchers create hi-tech, quantum-dot LED light using discarded rice husks

About 100 million tons of rice husk are produced every year. Why not use it to create new things?

AI paints night vision images into full color

It's an early step towards night vision devices that produce more ‘day-like’ images.

Korean researchers develop new ultrasonic wireless charging technique that could power medical implants

Implants like pacemakers or drug delivery systems could be charged with a new wireless charging technology.

Google made an annoying AI that explains why jokes are supposed to be funny

The ultimate goal is to close the gap between machine and human reasoning.

AI turns speech into portraits -- and it's eerily accurate sometimes

It's the racist uncle of computers.

Why we've seen very little cyberwarfare in Ukraine

There is little evidence that Russia has coordinated cyber operations with conventional military operations in Ukraine.

Flying-V plane could be the future of sustainable flight

The revolutionary aircraft design could cut fuel consumption by 20%.

Scientists find the speed limit of computer chips: one million gigahertz

There's still a lot of room to improve data transmission speeds.

Cheap AI sensors could help us curve pesticide use

We may be headed towards another agricultural revolution.

Ukraine is using AI facial recognition to identify victims and vet people at checkpoints

High-tech facial recognition AI is now joining the battlefield in Ukraine.

U.S. Army tests its first high-energy laser weapon

The high-power laser weapon is meant to be deployed against drones, as well as rockets, artillery, and mortars.

These hard-bodied robots can reproduce, learn and evolve autonomously

Virtual code has become virtual DNA.

These nanobots powered by magnets can successfully remove water pollutants

They could guide the design of sustainable tech for the removal of pollutants

People find AI-generated faces to be more trustworthy than real faces -- and it could be a problem

Deepfakes are on the rise. It could just be the tip of the iceberg.

An AI was just used to control plasma inside a nuclear fusion reactor

The prospect of clean, limitless energy is still a ways off -- but it's starting to take shape.

Cultured meat is coming. But will people eat it?

Cultured meat has a lot of advantages. But if people won't eat it, it's all for naught.

These spinal cord implants allow paralyzed patients to stand, walk, and even swim and cycle

The personalized spinal cord stimulation restored motor movements in completely paralyzed patients within a few hours.

Half plane, half rocket, this Chinese supersonic jet could fly Beijing to New York in only an hour

There's a new player in the space flight game.

Chinese AI 'nanny' cares for mouse babies in artificial womb

The robot developed by researchers in China spies embryos as they develop into fetuses.

Researchers successfully regrow limbs on frogs. They want to do the same thing with humans

A drug cocktail has shown promise in regrowing lost limbs.

A brilliant 100-year-old Nikola Tesla invention is just beginning to make sense

The patent never received too much attention, but scientists think it could have modern uses.

Startup turns non-recyclable plastic into building blocks

It's challenging the notion of what non-recyclable plastic even means in the first place -- and we like it a lot!

China builds the world’s first artificial moon

Scientists will use the new moon to aid in future interstellar colonization.

Device harvests power from your sweaty fingers even while you sleep

Your fingers can now power small electronics and sensors.

The swarm is near: get ready for the flying microbots

Scientists have developed minute artificial muscles to power Lilliputian drones.

World's tiniest antenna is made from DNA

Although it's thousands of times thinner than a strand of human hair, the DNA antenna can both receive and transmit radio waves.

This robotic thermal bore can cut through undrillable rock without making direct contact

Tunnelling is anything but boring with this robot.