The three Astrobee robots aboard the ISS foreshadow a future in which autonomous bots are NASA astronauts’ partners in space. | Continue reading
MIT has developed a $4 solar desalination device that could provide a family of four with all the drinking water it needed to survive. | Continue reading
A trial testing a new CRISPR-based treatment to lower cholesterol has officially kicked off in New Zealand. | Continue reading
Human limb regeneration is closer to reality thanks to new studies that refine our understanding of what mammals need to regrow body parts. | Continue reading
A CRISPR therapy for sickle cell disease and beta thalassemia looks close to 100% effective three years after infusion. | Continue reading
US cities are covering the capped sites of former landfills with solar panels, turning the “brownfields” into “brightfields.” | Continue reading
An underwater garden off the coast of Italy is introducing the world to a new type of sustainable agriculture. | Continue reading
A raft of “space bubbles” could be used to reverse global warming, according to an MIT group's solar geoengineering proposal. | Continue reading
This tech is identifying missing children in minutes, not weeks. | Continue reading
Maryland high schoolers have created a filter that removes lead in water. It costs just $1 and alerts users when it needs to be replaced. | Continue reading
The pandemic has turned an age-old gesture into a faux pas. As more people are wary of spreading germs, handshakes are becoming less of a cultural norm. | Continue reading
Russia ramped up its cyberattacks on Ukraine prior to its physical invasion, potentially foreshadowing how future conflicts will play out. | Continue reading
MIT’s biodegradable surgical tape is designed to seal tears in the gastrointestinal tract, potentially preventing sepsis-causing leaks. | Continue reading
Inspired by steam engines and water-walking insects, this soft robot may one day mop up oil spills at sea. | Continue reading
Engineers in Japan have set a new world record for fastest internet speed — 319 Tb/s — using a specially developed fiber-optic cable. | Continue reading
An implantable, wireless device could be better than popping a pill. | Continue reading
Can this recycled technology save the citizens of Tornado Alley? | Continue reading
Your circadian clock controls more than when you sleep and wake. Researchers are developing a simple blood test to try and accurately tell your time. | Continue reading
Fecal transplants from younger to older mice appear to reverse aging in the brains of the seniors, improving their memories and cognition. | Continue reading
A revival of the boarding house — popular in the 1800s, banned by modern zoning — could help solve America’s affordable housing woes. | Continue reading
VR theme park experiences are adding a new dimension to an industry that’s long relied on 20th-century technology. | Continue reading
These biohackers plan to give away their instructions for how to make insulin for free. | Continue reading
While looking for drugs to potentially fight Alzheimer’s, a high school researcher's AI did “comically” bad, until he thought of it as a search engine. | Continue reading
YouTuber Lucas VRTech developed a pair of open source, finger-tracking VR gloves that cost just $22 in materials. | Continue reading
NASA is staging a week-long asteroid impact simulation during which participants will need to respond to a hypothetical impact scenario. | Continue reading
Carbon Robotics’ Autonomous Weeder is a smart farming robot that identifies weeds and then kills them using high-power lasers. | Continue reading
Influenza’s constant genetic shifting means flu vaccines aim at a moving target. But a universal flu vaccine just passed its phase 1 trials. | Continue reading
This cost-efficient and environmentally-conscious supersonic jet could become the commercial airliner of the future. | Continue reading
Coating implantable electronics in the polymer PEDOT can extend their life, which could make cyborgs more common in the future. | Continue reading
DEF CON’s Space Security Challenge 2020 tasked teams with hacking satellites. The grand prize? Nothing less than the moon. | Continue reading
To rapidly test for COVID-19 treatments without animal studies, researchers make a model human body out of “organ chips.” | Continue reading
Thousands of volunteers are data scraping public websites to compile police records into a single national database for researchers to mine. | Continue reading
The data suggests that most murderers in America get away with it. How did we get here, and what can we do about it? | Continue reading
Pharmaceutical startup MindMed is developing tech it believes could serve as an “off switch” for an LSD trip during therapy sessions. | Continue reading
This dad couldn’t find a theme park that worked for his daughter with special needs - so he built one. Watch now to meet the man making a difference for everyone in his inclusive amusement park. | Continue reading
More than 25 Y Combinator startups have joined the COVID-19 response effort — find out how you can help these businesses fighting the coronavirus. | Continue reading
The Earth’s interior may be the last wild frontier, but not for long. These underwater drones are scanning the ocean to create a 3D model of its internal dynamics. | Continue reading
This model, created by doctoral students, provides a convincing explanation for a mystery that is thousands of years old - the cause of static electricity. | Continue reading
Johns Hopkins is throwing its considerable clout behind the fast-growing field of psychedelic research, pouring $17 million into a research center to study the hallucinogenic drugs. | Continue reading
Let's imagine aliens exist. How would you send them a message they can understand? And what would you say? Daniel Oberhaus has a few ideas. | Continue reading
Cutting-edge carbon capture technology is bringing the world’s top scientists and engineers much closer to solving the climate change puzzle. | Continue reading
Margaret Rossiter has made it her lifework to spotlight female scientists who were written out of history books through systematic censorship. Read our Q&A with this groundbreaking historian. | Continue reading
Coral reefs are the foundation of ocean life, and yet 50% of them have been lost. Here’s why coral reefs are dying and what one group is doing to stop it. | Continue reading
In the search for more sustainable methods of global food production, one couple in the Netherlands is taking an unconventional approach: they have become the operators of the world's first and only floating dairy farm. | Continue reading