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Dinosaurs probably cooed, not roared

Dinosaurs might not have been as terrifying as we thought.

Crops employ "austerity measures" to conserve water in drought conditions

By limiting the growth of their roots, grassy crops conserve soil water during drought.

New Sage Therapeutics drug alleviates postpartum depression in majority of patients

The drug might be a big step forward in the treatment of postpartum depression.

Researchers coax neurons into regenerating and restore vision in mice

This could allow us to restore vision, mobility or fight diseases like Alzheimer's.

A more sustainable leather industry built from a petri dish

This biomaterial is not only better, but more humane than traditional leather.

Scientists create light-activated stingray robot composed of rat cells

A stingray created from living rat cells blurs the line between technology and nature.

Designed for astronauts, the RoboHand can double your hand's strength -- and soon, it will be available on Earth

Handy.

NASA’s Dawn mission reveals Ceres craters that can trap water ice

Thirsty, anyone?

Your smartwatch might be giving away your ATM PIN

Smart devices are quickly taking over our lives, but they may also be giving away our secrets.

A software bug could render the last 15 years of brain research meaningless

Some 40,000 studies need to be re-examined. Ouch.

Dutch designer creates device that turns smog into beautiful jewelry

Wear it on your fingers, not in your lungs.

Turns out goats and dogs aren't that different when communicating with humans

There's a lot more going on under those horns than you'd think.

The world's tiniest game of Pac-Man is both awesome and educational

I'm gonna need a smaller controller.

This illusion can hack your brain into feeling the space around you

All you need is a brush and a rubber hand.

These migrating birds fly non-stop for six months

A truly amazing animal.

First fatal crash involving Tesla's Autopilot raises some serious ethical questions

The man in question was killed after his car rammed into the side of a tractor trailer which drove across the highway perpendicular to the Model S.

Rocks prove Mars used to resemble the Earth a lot -- but no, that doesn't mean there was life on it

But maybe our neighbour wasn't always so red-faced after all.

Climate change is making the Arctic red -- and we should be very worried about it

A tiny algae could spiral out of control with huge consequences.

Vegetables grown on Mars could be healthier than their Earth-grown counterparts

Food grown on Mars has been officially declared edible.

New NASA transfer protocol makes space Wi-Fi better than yours

NASA always gets the best of everything.

Hyperloop One and Russia sign deal to build an ultra-fast Silk Road

The short-term plan involves bringing the Hyperloop to Moscow and its 16 million citizens, but the long-term plan is even more ambitious...

MIT makes an AI that can predict what the future looks and sounds like

Artificial intelligence is learning in seconds what took humans a lifetime to master.

This is the world's first 1,000-processor chip

It works 100 times more efficiently than your laptop.

Researchers open hairy new chapter in 3-D printing

You just can't brush off this technology.

Future shoes: sizeless, lightweight, lace-free

A Japanese designer and an Italian shoemaker teamed up to create the shoes of the future.

Planet Earth got hold of a new companion, and it's here to stay

Not much bigger than an apartment building, 2016 HO3 has been confirmed as Earth's newest satellite.

New silicon chip technology amplifies light using sound waves

A whole new world of signal processing may be just around the corner.

Scientists find another way to show that vaccines work: using Google

The fact that people still debate the effectiveness of vaccines is ridiculous.

Scientists make everyday objects invisible from multiple angles

Inching along the path towards the perfect invisibility cloak.

Origami battery that runs on a few drops of water could revolutionize biosensors

This disposable battery runs on bacteria and folds like an origami ninja star. Sold!

Harvard team turns bacteria into living hard drives

Make your data evolve!

Wearable artificial kidney may change how we perform dialysis forever

Dialysis on the go may soon become reality.

This 25-year-old carried his artificial heart in a backpack for a year before receiving a transplant

A 25-year-old from the US has been living without a heart for more than a year.

Google scientists propose adding a 'kill switch' for A.I.

When in danger of A.I. overlords, press the big red button.

The US is rolling out superhuman hearing for its soldiers

Wearable tech could save the hearing of thousands of soldiers.

Simulate your way out of (or into) the perfect traffic jam

Computer models like Traffic-Simulation are designed to figure out how each traffic component adds towards a jam. The simulation models various conditions such as number of trucks or cars on the road, average distance and speed of cars, lane geometry and so forth, to explain how they develop.

Musical horns reveal 2,000 year old cultural ties between Europe and India

An archeologist studying Irish iron-age musical horns has found a very surprising correspondent of the ancient musical arts in Europe: these artistic practices, long considered to be dead, are still alive and well in south India.

We've found the genetic key to making red blood cells

Researchers from Lund University in Sweden and the Center of Regenerative Medicine in Barcelona have identified four sequences of genetic code that can reprogram mice skin cells to produce red blood cells. If this method can be used on human tissues, it would provide a reliable source of blood for transfusions and people with anemia.

Ultra-thin flat lens leads to smaller, better, cheaper optical devices: from telescopes to VR goggles

Flat lenses could revolutionize optics, researchers say.

Norway to 'completely ban all petrol powered cars by 2025'

Norway wants to make all cars electric in the next decade.

Facebook is using your phone to listen to everything you say, professor suggests

The good news is that it's easy to turn this off.

Colorful shrimp could teach us how to build stronger materials

Researchers are now one step closer to developing super strong composite materials, thanks to the mantis shrimp - a marine crustacean strong enough to cut a finger.

In 2002 Airbus patented a trap door to keep terrorists away from the cockpit

Take that, terrorists!

MIT-designed interface can mimic physical properties of any substance

Materiable is a novel shape changing interface designed to not only offer shapes that let you physically manipulate data, but also recreate the material properties of any substance.

Untreatable bacteria identified in the US

A strain of E. coli resistant to last-resort antibiotics has been identified on United States soil for the first time. Health officials say this could be the end of the road for antibiotics, leaving us virtually helpless in fighting future infections.

The U.S. Military is still using floppy disks to coordinate its nuclear arsenal

Some might be surprised to learn that the country's entire nuclear arsenal is still programmed on floppy disks, and army personnel is still reliant on the antiqued IBM Series/1 computer to implement the launch codes.

Beautiful Kinetic Artwork Sorts River Stones by Age

Fulfilling the job that scientists and unlucky undergrads have been doing for years, the kinetic machine Jller selects and sorts pebbles found on a 6 1/2 x 13 foot platform into a grid organized by geologic age. Without any assistance, the machine analyzes rocks based on their shape and sizes, understand their correct placement and transports them […]

Can China's straddling bus be a solution for crowded roads?

This extraordinary bus concept has been all over the internet, promising to revolutionize public transportation, making it more efficient and greener in the process. But could it actually work?

Humans got smarter to care for needy infants, making them more helpless in the process

University of Rochester researchers developed a new evolutionary model that suggests human intelligence developed to meet the demands of our infants, in a self-reinforcing cycle: bigger brains led to shorter pregnancies, requiring parents to have even bigger brains.

Engineers Just Smashed Record for Fast Wireless Data Trasmission: 6 Gigabits per second

A team of researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics just beat the previous record by a factor of 10.

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