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System uses machine learning to offer new way to screen for hard-to-detect cancers

An artificial intelligence can accurately translate thoughts into sentences, at least for a limited vocabulary of 250 words. The system may bring us a step closer to restoring speech to people who have lost the ability because of paralysis.

The Food And Drug Administration (FDA) issued an emergency authorization Sunday for hydroxychloroquine, a drug already used to treat malaria and other ailments, which has shown anecdotal efficacy against coronavirus.

The change comes after Motherboard found the Zoom iOS app was sending analytics information to Facebook when users opened the app.

BYD Blade Battery leverages safety and improves volumetric energy density. Blade Battery will debut in the BYD Han (June 2020).

It's an EV conversion carried out on the iconic SL R107 from the 1970s.

SpaceX Starship SN3 Prepares To Hop | SpaceX in the News Episode 85. Today we get our hype on for Starship SN3 progress; talk crew dragon updates; look into the upcoming launch manifest, including for Falcon Heavy; and finish with the honorable menti

The SpaceX SN3 Starship is stacked and will have a test hop for 150 meters next week. This is assuming that the pressure tests and other preparations have no issues.

Transient reprogramming, mediated by transient expression of mRNAs, promotes a rapid reversal of both cellular aging and of epigenetic clock in human fibroblasts and endothelial cells...

SpaceX is approved to build 1 MILLION 'user terminals' that will connect people to high-speed internet provided by its satellite constellation

Beats a classroom! From art lessons with the cat to counting with toy cars, parents reveal their VERY creative tricks for making home schooling fun

There is a wonderful 157 part series of short 3 minute or so videos of a few hours of interviews of Freeman Dyson. Dyson talks about his interactions with the giants in physics and science.

The presence of toxic metals in water stemming from industrial sources makes treatment a tall order, with these polluted liquids capable of contaminating groundwater supplies for years or even decades thereafter.

Battery technology is advancing quickly and Tesla seems to be ahead of all others.

Doctors have made four-way and now nine-way valve system to enable one ventilator to service 9 people.

The SpaceX Super Heavy Starship (SHS) will switch from 301 steel alloy to 304L steel alloy for some parts and then a new custom steel alloy.

Aslak Stubsgaard, CTO of Copenhagen Atomics provided an update to Nextbigfuture on their development of a Molten Salt nuclear fission reactor.

It could destroy norovirus, MRSA, virulent strains of E. coli, and coronaviruses--including the novel strain currently causing the COVID-19 pandemic.

US -- Tulsi and Bernie dropped out...On March 19, she made it official, shaming herself and disappointing supporters by endorsing Biden.

Architects show how disused oil rigs could be turned into floating green cities featuring wind turbines, gardens and even waterfalls

The Mariana Trench is the deepest spot in the world's oceans and only a handful of people have been there.

EXCLUSIVE: Chinese doctor claims he made a breakthrough in coronavirus pandemic with stem cell injections - having 100% success rate after treating nine mostly elderly patients

TED Fellow and urban designer Mitchell Joachim presents his vision for sustainable, organic architecture: eco-friendly abodes grown from plants and -- wait for it -- meat.

SpaceX has successfully launched and deployed another batch of 60 Starlink satellites.

Fast enough for highway use, better acceleration than most cars, and more than enough range for the avg person's daily commutes.

As countries face shortages of important medical equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic, makers are desperately trying to fill the gaps with open source designs.

There are many tools cancer relies on to survive and thrive, and therefore many possibilities when it comes to thwarting its advances.

Computers can already boast superhuman sensory abilities in sight and hearing, but smell has been much more difficult.

Back in January, China's EHang aced the first flight in the US of its two-seat autonomous air taxi. Now the company has agreed to develop the first Urban Air Mobility pilot program in Seville, Spain.

PEPPER to illustrate how soap keeps germs away

Tesla hints at the capability to produce enough Solar Roof tiles for up to 1,000 homes per week.

A Lesson from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic

Elon Musk indicated that the SpaceX Starship is designed to be relaunched within one hour of landing. SpaceX Starship could have three launches in one day.

We are now hearing reports that the case numbers are dropping precipitously in Wuhan and by extension elsewhere. This could only be possible if treatment became highly effective. All this on Vitamin C which is what i have been saying all along. W

Not only are herniated discs painful and debilitating, but treatments for them leave something to be desired. A new technique, however, may be more effective than anything that's come before.

Why would a company that made a big splash with a wheel-less, hitch-mounted camper pull a complete about-face and add wheels?

As ships travel the seas, an assortment of barnacles, mussels, algae and other greeblies accumulate on their hulls. This is definitely troublesome, which is why a new robot-based system has been developed as a possible solution.

New vs. old version electrics go head-to-head.

The futuristic Tesla Cybertruck was designed for function, with the utility of a truck and sports cars like performance, this durable vehicle was built to be capable both on-road and off-road, which makes cybertruck camping perfect.

...by concentrating sunlight into "hotspots" using lenses, they could boost the efficiency of solar-powered membrane distillation desalination systems by more than 50 percent.

The British government's strategy to deal with the coronavirus outbreak is for 60% of the UK to become infected in order to develop "herd immunity" against the disease, according to The Independent.

Another milestone for the construction equipment industry: the first electric backhoe loader arrives.

This Tesla Cyberquad project still has a long way before it's finished, though.

HomeBioGas is a bacteria digester that transforms organic waste such as food scraps and manure into methane gas for cooking. It also produces liquid fertilizer as a byproduct. The device needs a warm climate for bacteria growth. -GEG

In a major advance in mind-controlled prosthetics for amputees, University of Michigan researchers have tapped faint, latent signals from arm nerves and amplified them to enable real-time, intuitive, finger-level control of a robotic hand.

Get with the program people. Stop being Big Pharma sheeples…

Hybrid "power capacitors" that can store as much energy as lithium batteries, but with much higher charge/discharge rates, a huge range of safe operating temperatures, super-long lifespans and no risk of explosion are already in production, says a sm

The trial, which seeks to restore vision in people with a genetic mutation, marks the first time that DNA-editing viruses have been injected directly into a live person.

A brilliant 34-year-old engineer has built her own mobile phone with a rotary dial--and she did it because she despises texting and over-complicated smartphones.

The spectrum freed from the shift to digital TV is being used to bring broadband to long neglected parts of the US. But its path to market has been a messy one.