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New York's mass transportation agency, fed up with folks taking off their masks to unlock their iPhones, wants Apple to improve facial recognition features.
Artificial Intelligence

New York City Subway System Asks Apple to Improve Masked Face ID

The MTA just doubled-down on Apple.

By Jacob Banas

How much effort should we place on preserving World Heritage Sites threatened by climate changes brought on by human activity?
Climate Change

New Climate Paper: Maybe Let’s Let Venice Sink?

Should World Heritage Sites just succumb to time?

By Jacob Banas

The UK government has been funneling millions of dollars into a gun and knife crime prediction tool that uses artificial intelligence. Turns out it sucks.
Artificial Intelligence

Minority Report-Style Crime-Predicting AI Predictably Sucks At Its Job

It's basically unusable — and potentially dangerous.

By Victor Tangermann

The Department of Energy recently signed a contract with an AI lab to come up with a machine learning bird watcher to study bird around solar farms.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Are Using an “AI Bird Watcher” to Solve a Solar Farm Bird Massacre Mystery

Solar energy may be far more deadly than you might think.

By Victor Tangermann

NASA’s Mars Helicopter Could Revolutionize Off-Planet Exploration
Mars

NASA’s Mars Helicopter Could Revolutionize Off-Planet Exploration

If it succeeds, future missions could soar over alien landscapes — instead of crawling across them like bugs.

By Victor Tangermann

Havn Life wants to build a safe, standardized supply chain for psilocybin researchers in Canada in hopes of developing new medical treatments.
RX and Medicine

Meet the Woman Who Wants to Sell Psychedelic Drugs to Scientists

"We all had to hide for so long and grow massive crops in indoor spaces without being arrested."

By Dan Robitzski

The aerospace startup Hermeus won a contract to build a hypersonic version of Air Force One capable of reaching speeds up to Mach 5.
Advanced Transport

Air Force One’s Successor Could Go 5x the Speed of Sound

That's fast.

By Dan Robitzski

A new NASA simulation shows the ghostly ultraviolet flashes of Mars's "nightglow," represented by greenish hues in the Martian night sky.
Science & Energy

New NASA Animation Shows Mars’ Creepy Greenish “Nightglow”

This strange glow in the Martian night sky is "as bright in the ultraviolet as Earth’s northern lights."

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers showed that electrical stimulation through simple ear pieces improved adult participants' abilities to recognize foreign language tones.
Brain

Zapping the Brain Improved Language Learning Abilities by 13%

Learning new languages could become a lot easier in the future.

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is finally taking stock and getting rid of the various racist nicknames the space agency has granted objects in space over the years.
Science & Energy

NASA Says It Will Stop Using Racist Names for Space Objects

"Science depends on diverse contributions, and benefits everyone, so this means we must make it inclusive."

By Dan Robitzski

Bill Gates says that the long wait times for coronavirus test results render the whole thing useless. Or, in his words, the tests are "garbage."
Viruses

Bill Gates Called Most US Coronavirus Tests “Garbage”

"The majority of all U.S. tests are completely garbage, wasted."

By Dan Robitzski

A small UK-based DNA-testing company called DnaNudge has come up with a toaster-sized machine that can detect COVID-19 in just 90 minutes.
Prosthetics and Devices

Machine Detects COVID-19 in 90 Minutes

Health officials are already ordering thousands.

By Victor Tangermann

A team of astronomers have found new evidence suggesting there's a neutron star lurking in the center of the supernova 1987A that's only 33 years old.
Space

Astronomers May Have Found a Star That’s Just 33 Years Old

This star is a 90s kid. Really.

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists treated the Moon like a giant mirror to study the Earth's atmosphere, a trick they say could help search for inhabited worlds.
Science & Energy

Scientists Are Using The Moon as a Giant Mirror to Search For Aliens

They're looking at a reflection of the Earth — to see what a habitable planet would look like from far away.

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists who identified a link between naturally-present lithium in drinking water and lower suicide rates suggest lacing communities' water supply.
Health & Medicine

Scientists Propose Adding Psychoactive Drug to our Water Supplies

They say it could prevent suicides.

By Dan Robitzski

Genetics research is full of errors because Microsoft Excel reformats some gene names into calendar dates. To fix it, scientists just renamed the genes.
Science & Energy

Scientists Had to Rename Genes Because They Confused Microsoft Excel

According to one study, 20 percent of genetics papers contained an Excel-related error.

By Dan Robitzski

In a recent tweet on Wednesday, president Donald Trump claimed that "NASA was Closed & Dead until I got it going again." The space community wasn't happy.
NASA

Former Astronaut Blasts Trump For Lying About NASA

"Great leaders take blame and pass along credit."

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists suggest that the key to settling Mars or the Moon is hiding underground in lava tubes. Now we know the caverns are actually big enough.
Off-World

Scientists: Martian Lava Tubes Large Enough to Fit Planetary Base

Natural caverns could help keep interplanetary settlers safe.

By Dan Robitzski

The private equity firm Blackstone just purchased Ancestry as well as its massive databse of customers' genetic information.
Data Privacy

A Private Equity Firm Just Bought the Largest Consumer DNA Database

Ancestry — and its trove of genetic data — just changed hands.

By Dan Robitzski

According to new research, the shape of our solar system's heliosphere could resemble a "deflated croissant," not a comet with a long tail.
NASA

NASA Imaged the Bubble Around the Solar System and… Yikes

It almost looks... biological?

By Victor Tangermann