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On paper, the ketogenic diet sounds great. Every January, fat's in the crosshairs of health columnists, fitness magazines, and desperate Americans. This year, PopSci looks at the macronutrient beyond its most negative associations. What's fat good

Here's a fun drinking game: Every time someone compares AI to the human brain, take a shot. It'll dull the pain of such mindless metaphorizing--and serve as a reminder that you, an at-least-semiconscious being, have an actual brain that can make

HERE'S HOW EV ADOPTION HAS GROWN WORLDWIDE

You will be able to pre-order clothes folding robots starting in 5 days and 5 hours from foldimate.com.

Author Jacques Peretti has shed light on the backroom deals between big businesses that have ultimately shaped the way we eat, shop, and even choose medication.

As many as half of those suffering from HIV could prevent the mental decline associated with the disease with the help of cannabis, according to a new study.

Materials are a designer's paint and canvas-and for the most part, they've remained pretty static in recent decades. But over the past few years, and in 2017 in particular, we saw new advances in material science that gave creators plenty of ex

The plasma magnet sail engine is little more than 2 pairs of charged rotating coils and is therefore extremely simple and inexpensive. A fully powered plasma magnet sail using a small nuclear power source could accelerate at 0.5G and reach 400-700 km

Spacex BFR construction will start in 4 to 6 months. would have bigger than Saturn V payloads plus the magic of reusuability. How reusable is of course the trick, but in the optimal case that Brian has written about, to quote Brian: at $7 million

The movies were right: Gremlins are real. Or at least they will be if DARPA -- the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency -- has anything to say about it. As we learned this week from our friends at the Navy Times , DARPA is moving ahead on

The Parker Solar Probe will fly closer to the sun than any spacecraft in history, so it better be able to handle the heat.

University of Michigan researchers created a reservoir computing system that reduces training time and improves capacity of similar neural networks.

Japanese RIKEN researchers are trying to adapt existing the silicon metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) to integrate qubits with current electronics, offering the potential for scaling up quantum devices and bringing quan

Construction of China's 600 MWe demonstration fast reactor at Xiapu, Fujian province, has officially begun with the pouring of the first concrete for the reactor's basemat.

The Metal X Industrial 3D Printer from Markforged creates parts with stainless steel.

Metal fabrication with traditional processes like injection molding, can be noisy, create welding fumes and exhaust, and require the use of lots of chemicals by workers. Desktop Metal's new additive manufacturing method uses FDM techniques that are s

100 times faster and 20 times cheaper than laser-based 3D metal printers, this system could revolutionize manufacturing by making the cost and speed of 3D metal printing competitive with traditional processes like casting, machining and forging.

Here at New Atlas we cover a wide variety of topics, so it's always interesting to arrive at the end of another year and see what most struck a chord with readers over the past 12 months.

A novel low-cost aluminum–graphite dual-ion battery is reported. The battery shows a reversible capacity of ?100 mAh g?1 and a capacity retention of 88% after 200 charge–discharge cycles.

This is an easy-to-make ionic liquid or deep eutectic solvent that I've made. Basically it's Epsom salt (magnesium sulfate heptahydrate) and glycerin/glycerol in a 1:3 molar ratio.

The (noisy) 50-100 qubit quantum computer is coming soon. (NISQ = noisy intermediate-scale quantum computer).

OneWeb received permission from the FCC in June to deploy a global network of 720 low-Earth orbit satellites using the Ka (20/30 GHz) and Ku (11/14 GHz) frequency bands. Earlier in 2017, OneWeb started building a satellite manufacturing factory which

There are already skin patches that help people quit smoking … could patches that help them lose weight be far behind? Well, thanks to research being conducted at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University, the things already exist - for mice,

(Natural News) Mother Nature will never cease to amaze, with its seemingly endless list of natural energy resources that are just waiting to be tapped. The many sources of natural -- or as many in the mainstream media like to call it, the alternativ

"CBD, the second major cannabinoid in marijuana after THC, has anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving properties, but no psychoactive effects. However, recent research shows that CBD can be an effective treatment for many kinds of pain. Inflammatory

Like sandblasting at the nanometer scale, focused beams of ions ablate hard materials to form intricate three-dimensional patterns.

In September, the Department of Energy awarded Lawrence Berkeley Labs of $3 million per year to construct a quantum computer and the software needed to operate it.

A new NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) spectrometer measures single photons with great precision.

The SpaceX BFR (Big Falcon Rocket or Big Fucking Rocket) has a planned payload of 150,000 kg (330,000 lb) when flying reusable or 250,000 kg (550,000 lb) when flying expendable, making it a super heavy-lift launch vehicle.

Researchers detail an artificial molecular machine that moves a substrate between different activating sites to achieve different product outcomes from chemical synthesis.

Material and engineering researchers at East China's Zhejiang University unveiled a "super" aluminum-graphene battery that can be fully charged in 5 seconds and then last for two hours.

Scientists claim to have developed a revolutionary new giant 3D concrete printer that can build a 2,500-square-foot house in just 24 hours.

CEO Elon Musk reveals that the Tesla Pickup Truck's primary design elements have been established for years and promises it will come after the Model Y.

If schedules hold, Florida's Space Coast could see up to three dozen launches in 2018 thanks to government and commercial payload missions that will fly on SpaceX and United Launch Alliance rockets. Spacex should have about 30 of the launches.

Crispr/Cas9 is a riboprotein complex composed of a short strand of RNA and an efficient DNA-cutting enzyme. Crispr/Cas9 sometimes cuts in the wrong places. And it has no off-switch.

After eight years in development, the world's largest amphibious plane has taken to the skies in China for its maiden flight.

This is the time of year that Big Media seeks to appease its biggest advertisers, Big Pharma, by helping to spread fear and panic about this year's "flu epidemic." They commonly quote sensationalized statistics, suggesting that you will die or

When Blue Origin's New Shepard made its seventh test flight on December 12, it not only carried the latest version of the company's Crew Capsule 2.0, but also its first dozen commercial payloads under full US FAA license.

For millions of Americans suffering from debilitating nerve pain, a once-overlooked option has emerged as an alternative to high doses of opioids: implanted medical devices using electricity to counteract pain signals the same way noise-canceling hea

Before he retired from McGill University, Pieter Sijpke used to give his architecture students some pretty cool homework.

Rigetti has demonstrated unsupervised machine learning using 19Q, their new 19-qubit general purpose superconducting quantum processor. We did this with a quantum/classical hybrid algorithm for clustering developed at Rigetti.

IBM, Dwave Systems, Google, Rigetti, Intel and others are computing to develop faster quantum computing systems.

(Reuters Health) - An experimental blood test accurately identifies people who do, or don't, have celiac disease, even if they are following gluten-free diets, researchers say.

OneWeb, the company aiming to bring the internet to the 31% of the world's population who don't have access to 3G connectivity, is moving one step closer to bringing its satellite services back to Earth.

What have you been up to lately, Atlas?

Global FREEZE lasting 120 YEARS threatens 'more intense' winters from 2019

See through walls with android smartphone attachment.

Boeing revealed its MQ-25 unmanned refueling drone.

In four hours, a robot taught itself chess, then beat a grandmaster with moves never devised in the game's 1,500-year history and the implications are terrifying

After covering major international auto shows and events stretching way back to January's 1-2 CES/Detroit Auto Show punch and through to this month's LA Auto Show, we've seen a lot of concept cars. They range from brilliant to unjustifiably weird. Ou