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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

Most conversations don't end when people want them to, study finds

We might need to reconsider our conversation skills -- and stop talking.

Latin American's science contribution against COVID-19

Research against Covid-19 in Latin America brings hope in the middle of the crisis.

How does an air conditioner work?

Simple questions often lead to very rich topics.

Smart glasses made in Japan could slow down or even reverse myopia

Myopia affects almost 2 billion people. For many of them, surgery is not an option.

Scientists zoom in on snake skin to see how they navigate sandy surfaces

Sidewinder snakes helped solve a puzzling conundrum.

The first 3D printed house in the US is now officially on sale -- for $300,000

It's a lot of money, but it's still cheaper than what you get in the area.

Korean researchers develop fully transparent solar panels -- and they're smartphone compatible

Smartphones might soon power themselves.

NASA cut short a "critical test" of its new rocket on Sunday

Nobody was hurt and nothing blew up so, altogether, not that bad!

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