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MIT researchers develop printable electronics

MIT engineers have developed a fast, reliable and relatively cheap process through which they can print electronic surfaces.

Time to update the Paleo Diet -- it was heavy on plants and veggies, archaeologists found

Best enjoyed with a stone fork from a bark plate.

There are 30 trillion tons of human-made stuff all over the planet

And it's called the technosphere.

NASA plans to build robots that explore frozen worlds from metallic glass so they don't shatter

"Cold enough to shatter robots" is pretty cold in my book.

Boom Supersonic XB-1 unveiled: the aircraft that will take you from NYC to London in 3.15 hours

Fashionable supersonic flight is back!

Parents might soon watch their unborn babies grow up in 3D

Modern technology is impressive, extremely useful, and sometimes a bit disturbing.

Hyperloop rail might connect Dubai and Abu Dhabi in 12 minutes

It takes 2 hours to take a bus from Dubai to Abu Dhabi. It's a 90-minute drive. The Hyperloop could get you there in 12 minutes.

NASA's morphing wing will make airplanes smoother, more efficient

Taking a cue from nature.

Scientists make semiconductor-free chip that work similarly to vacuum tubes

Taking hints from pre-1950s technology, researchers devised semiconductor-free electronics that operate faster and can handle more power.

Atomic-sandwich material could make computers 100 times more energy efficient

Don't need a calculator to know that's a lot.

China is building an impressive magnetic levitation train that can go at 600 km/h (373 mph)

If there's one thing that China does well, it's going big.

Russian scientists stumble upon secret Nazi base in the Arctic

They did Nazi that coming.

Google's AI just created its own form of encryption

Just two algorithms sending messages to each other - and you can't peek in.

Study finds viewing selfies on social media can make you miserable or jolly -- depending on how you see yourself

Seriously, why are selfies a thing?

DeepMind can now learn how to use its memories, apply knowledge to new tasks

The AI developed by Alphabet, Google's parent company, just received a new and powerful update.

Scientists develop tape that adheres to anything and rejects all liquids

They call it a superomniphobic tape.

A Russian start-up schools Google and Facebook facial recognition technology

NTechLab is only one year old, but it's already making headlines and playing with the big boys in the industry.

For the last 18 years, robotic mussels have been watching over our oceans

They've collected staggering amounts of data.

Study ranks 63 countries by empathy, Ecuador tops the list

How nice are your neighbours?

Newly discovered Japanese plant doesn't photosynthesize, pollinates itself

The most self-sufficient plant I know of.

Second generation EM drive is just around the corner, patent made public on Friday

No gas? No problem!

Google's Artificial Intelligence algorithm just navigated London's underground without any prior knowledge

Google's DeepMind algorithm just got one step closer to behaving like a human.

Skin impression of one of the last dinosaurs found in Spain

Some 60 million years ago, one dinosaur laid down to rest -- creating something unique in the whole of Europe.

Higgs Boson physicist develops a fertility app to replace the pill. It's 99.5% effective

Safe sex, no pregnancy, and an app. My kind of technology.

The 2016 Nobel Prize run-down

Gotta catch them all!

Greek arts may have led to the creation of the Terracotta Army in ancient China

An army made to last forever.

Ancient stone-carved Greek lease document found in Turkey

Nothing more binding than a document set in stone.

New exoskeleton helps disabled people get back on their feet

I've said it before and I'll say it again: the future is here.

UK successfully transmits data via the national electricity grid, in a global premiere

Smart grids, smart cities.

Hurricane Matthews exposed a trove of Civil War cannonballs in South Carolina

Oldies but still dangerous.

Silkworms spin super silk after eating carbon nanotubes and graphene

Worms + graphene = great silk.

Modern humans lost some of their smoke-resistance genes and we don't know why

So remember, don't smoke kids.

How the brain makes drinking water feel like a pain once you're hydrated

Drinks for the thirsty, gag reflex for the over-hydrated.

Scientists create the smallest transistor ever

Smallest. Transistor. Ever

Bees can feel optimism, possibly other 'emotion-like states' as well, study finds

All it takes to make them happy is some sugar.

Five genes could give dogs their unique human interaction -- and they share four with us

Woof.

Globalization offers us a huge choice of foodstuffs -- but we're not having it

Game theory doesn't apply to farming like it does to other areas of industry.

Gold growing on trees offers a new prospecting tool

Who said money doesn't grow on trees? Take this grandpa!

"Extinct" elms discovered doing just fine in the Queen's gardens, Edinburgh

It's good to be Queen. But it's even better to be the Queen's elms.

Archaeologists unearth a huge dinosaur footprint in the Gobi desert

A titanic footprint from a titan of a beast.

Drugs clear HIV from British patient's system, offering hope for a cure

Five UK universities working together hope to bring an end to HIV.

Fossil Friday: the earliest known shells from 809 million years ago

Shifting ocean chemistry and predatory pressure made organisms bunker up for the first time.

First case of Zika transmitted through touch in Utah was a freak occurrence, paper finds

A lot of things worked together to allow infection via casual touch alone.

Mark Zuckerberg just shared pictures from Facebook's Data Center, and it's like a dystopian sci-fi

It's scary and awesome at the same time.

Bad news for cancer cells -- your immune system immunity has been revoked

Scientists discovered how cancerous cells hide from immune system -- and how to make them targets again.

A WHO report says 92% of humans breathe dangerously polluted air

Canned air doesn't seem like such a publicity stunt now, does it?

How one Japanese used Deep Learning to sort his parents' cucumbers

You don't need to change the world for deep learning to have a meaningful impact in your life.

Ancient Chinese skeletons found in London could hint at unknown ancient community and trade

Archaeologists are still divided on what the finding actually means.

Mercury will join the Solar System's "tectonically active" planet club

Scientists found several faults with its application.

China launches FAST, the largest radio-telescope in the world

Big country, big telescope.

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