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We trained AI to recognise footprints, but it won’t replace forensic experts yet

Bloody footprints are common at violent crime scenes, and AI may help us find the murderers.

The crowd can do as good a job spotting fake news as professional fact-checkers -- if you group up enough people

"Quantity has a quality all its own" is an infamous quote, but it's not wrong.

The next innovative material for clothes? How about muscles

Synthetic biology could make clothes from a very unexpected material.

Batman cloak-like chainmail switches from flexible to tough on command

When jammed, the chainmail particles stiffen into a fabric that can support a load 50 times its weight.

4 Technological Trends Shaping The Post-Pandemic Future Of Business

As the pandemic continues to linger, businesses are trying to find solutions to adapt to the new normal.

3D-printed components are now in use at US nuclear plant

The technology is no longer just for gifts and gadgets -- it's reliable enough to be used for nuclear energy.

Men could significantly outnumber women within decades -- and this is a problem

Researchers anticipate an even larger deficit of female births

Why Stonehenge megaliths stay up after 5,000 years -- it's all geology

A long-lost piece from the monument brought some answers

AI helps NASA look at the Sun with new eyes

Hindsight is 20/20 -- and so is a telescope equipped with AI.

The first ever 3D-printed steel bridge opens in Amsterdam

Researchers will now measure its performance and see how it handles traffic.

Japan just shattered the internet speed record: 319 Terabits per Second

Japan is living in the future.

Can AI helps us discover new, innovative materials?

To find shortcuts in material science, researchers are increasingly looking at artificial intelligence.

Beetles produce a lubricant that’s more slippery than Teflon

It could be useful for small-scale robots and prosthetics

Scientists develop world’s thinnest technology – only two atoms thick

It could be ground-breaking for modern tech devices

This 5,000-year-old-man may have been the “oldest” plague victim

A contender for "patient zero" for the plague.

Almost half of the goals scored in football (soccer) have some sort of randomness to them

Football is a surprisingly random game.

The sound of music: violins could soon be designed by Artificial Intelligence

Designing violins is an art -- but it could soon become a science.

Graphene protective coatings could improve hard disk data storage potential ten-fold

Not bad at all.

Drones can elicit emotions from people, which could help integrate them into society more easily

Joy, sadness, fear, anger, and surprise were the easiest to recognize.

Microsoft releases simple "auto-complete for programmers" that uses mammoth AI

Your new personal assistant.

New approach creates power out of thin WiFi

Wireless power, here we come!

No green thumb required: Open-source robots can now grow a small farm for you

The only thing cooler than a smart, useful robot is a smart, useful, open-source robot.

Eco-friendly geometry: smart pasta can halve packaging waste at no extra cost

Mathematics to the rescue!

Ukraine seizes spirit made from apples grown near the Chernobyl nuclear site

The company hopes to get it soon on the UK market.

Does cryptocurrency need governance? These researchers say so

Bitcoin has done a lot for some people, but what has it really done for society?

Citrus fruit stands poised to make transparent wood more sustainable, stronger, and more transparent

This is a whole new level of 'when life gives you lemons'.

Bitcoin has an energy problem. Now what?

By 2024, the bitcoin network is set to use as much energy as a medium-sized country like Italy.

Researchers use machine learning to build 3D maps from historical maps

Literally adding a new dimension to old maps.

France to start using algorithms to detect terrorists -- but are algorithms that good?

The arms race between terrorists and officials is going online.

Goodbye, pesticides? This new robot can kill 100,000 weeds per hour using lasers

Technology is increasingly making its way to the crops.

France just ordered 12 electric hydrogen trains

It's a historic step towards sustainability.

Japanese metallic tail can help keep the elderly upright

It's a weird evolutionary thing that we'd build robotic tails.

Watch a 3D printer produce an entire boat

0 metal, 100% boat.

Study finds first evidence of honey hunting in prehistoric West Africa

Our relationship with honey goes way back.

If we want to reduce global inequality, we could learn a thing or two from Mario Kart

Study finds metaphor that could be applied in the real world

Simple seaweed could be used to heal human wounds with bio-ink

Seaweed keeps surprising us with even further virtues

This giant stone slab might be the oldest known 3D map in Europe

It was stored for decades but researchers found it in a cellar in 2014

Scientists Find New Technique to Defeat Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

By administering two doses, one while bacteria are swarming and one while in transition into a biofilm, antibiotic-resistant bacteria were eradicated.

Even without fans, the home team advantage still exists

Fans or no fans, playing at home still grants you an advantage.

Researchers develop underwater WiFi

The internet of things is going deep -- deep underwater, that is.

Our phones have their own microbial communities, just like us

You're never really alone; there's always a group of microbes along for the ride.

Dump the plastic: Scientists create edible food packaging films from seaweed

They are water-soluble and eco-friendly, you can eat them or throw them away.

Want people to stop sharing fake news? Just make them reflect on what they're sharing

Social media is riddled with misleading stories. Researchers are zooming in on ways to address that.

Scientists observe nanobots coordinating inside a living host for the first time

We're talking swarms of millions of bots here.

Artificial Intelligence can debate and it's pretty good at it (but not as good as the best humans)

AI is ready to stop playing games and move on to other challenges.

The merging of Milky Way and Andromeda’s supermassive black holes

Milkomeda is really happening -- #couplegoals.

Scientists continue unlocking the mysteries of the world's oldest computer

The entire front panel was recreated with a 3D computer model, and that's when researchers noticed something.

Cheap plastics could soon be turned into sustainable fabrics

We need as many ways to get rid of plastic as possible.

Fossils in China reveal an impressive evolutionary secret of plants

Study sheds light on plant's evolutionary race

Researchers find a way to grow wood in a lab, and it could curb global deforestation

Your future furniture might be produced with lab-grown wood

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