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New research describes how optogenetics, which involves activating nerve cells with pulses of light, could vastly improve paralysis treatment.
Neuroscience and Brain

Stimulating Muscles With Light Could Soon Treat Paralysis

Using optogenetics, researchers could precisely steer a mouse's leg muscles.

A Chinese lander destined for the side of the Moon — the side that always faces away from the Earth — has now entered lunar orbit.
Moon

China’s Moon Lander Just Entered Lunar Orbit

It's expected to land in early 2019.

Bionic Bees With Electronic Backpacks Could Replace Farm Drones
Drones

Bionic Bees With Electronic Backpacks Could Replace Farm Drones

These bees can collect data for 7 hours at a time.

CAPTCHAs Are Dead, And Neural Networks Killed Them
Robots and Machines

CAPTCHAs Are Dead, And Neural Networks Killed Them

Long live reCAPTCHAs.

The United States Has One Last Chance to Restore Net Neutrality
Future Society

The United States Has One Last Chance to Restore Net Neutrality

Lobbyist money apparently supersedes party lines.

Virgin Galactic is planning to send its second SpaceShipTwo spaceplane called VSS Unity to "space for the first time." But what does that mean exactly?
Off-World

Virgin Galactic Is Going to Space. Depending on Your Definition of Space.

Where does Earth's atmosphere end and outer space begin?

This Ancient Galaxy Was Loaded With Dark Matter
Science & Energy

This Ancient Galaxy Was Loaded With Dark Matter

This galaxy had dark matter before it was cool.

Tuesday's ISS spacewalk was a success, with the cosmonauts able to see and collect samples from the mysterious hole in the side of the Soyuz capsule.
International Space Station

Cosmonauts Hacked Away at the ISS in Search of Sabotage Evidence

It took hours before they could finally see the hole at the center of the controversy.

India’s Government Blames Facebook’s WhatsApp for Mob Violence
Future Society

India’s Government Blames Facebook’s WhatsApp for Mob Violence

Fearmongering rumors spread across the app, and Facebook did little to step in.

Tesla's lawsuit against former employee and alleged saboteur Martin Tripp is for $167 million in damages, according to new reports.
Tesla

Tesla Is Suing Alleged Saboteur for $167 Million

His lawyers call the damage claims "absurd."

Building telescopes and other things in space, rather than on Earth, would vastly improve our ability to watch and explore the cosmos.
Exobiology

The Search for Aliens May Depend on In-Space Assembly

Building everything on Earth will vastly limit how much we can explore.

New researcher cracked the unholy code of generating full-body deepfakes. Now with just a short sample video, an AI system can simulate brand new movements.
Artificial Intelligence

These Full-Body Deepfakes are Like Nothing We’ve Ever Seen

The simulations are still clearly fake, but better versions are on the way.

People Are Road Raging At Waymo’s Self-Driving Cars
Self-Driving Vehicles

People Are Road Raging At Waymo’s Self-Driving Cars

A Waymo's safety driver was threatened at gunpoint.

Walmart is currently testing the ability of Flippy, a kitchen assistant robot, to automate the process of frying food in its delis.
Robotics

Walmart Is Testing a Robot to Replace Its Fry Cooks

The retailer wants to automate how its delis fry foods.

Volvo's new electric truck is about to deploy on the streets of Hamburg, Germany. And they could beat Tesla's semi to the punch.
Tesla

Volvo’s Electric Garbage Truck Is Its Answer to Tesla’s Big Rig

The future of garbage is electric.

According to the Pew Research Center, more Americans now get their news from social media than do from traditional printed newspapers.
Future Society

For News, Americans Now Officially Prefer Social Media to Newspapers

Or at least this is the first time they're admitting it.

Researchers have discovered that the Earth's underground ecosystem is massive, roughly twice as big as all the world's oceans combined.
Science & Energy

Massive Underground Ecosystem Could Help Us Find Alien Life

We might want to look down before we look up.

In a hearing in front of a House Committee, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that Google had "no plans" to launch a search product in China.
Future Society

Google CEO: “No Plans” To Launch Censored Chinese Search Engine

But project Dragonfly is very real.

Replacing Nuclear With Renewables Would Save France $44.5 Billion
Nuclear Fusion

Replacing Nuclear With Renewables Would Save France $44.5 Billion

Gradually decommissioning old nuclear plants would get France to 95 percent renewable energy by 2060.

A White-Hot Molten Silicon “Sun” Could Power 100,000 Homes
Energy

A White-Hot Molten Silicon “Sun” Could Power 100,000 Homes

Excess electricity from solar panels heats a vat of molten silicon.