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Acquisition of French image-recognition company paves way to smarter A.I. future

A University of Washington partnership produced the largest DNA data trove to date

Oru has won much recognition and acclaim for its lineup of folding kayaks, vessels that fold down into their own carry cases, making transport and storage much easier than full-sized rigid kayaks. But you don't always want to paddle solo.

Generally, water repellent objects and those that attract or absorb water have very different microscopic-level attributes that endow them with their behavior.

Neurofeedback trained people to see what wasn't there

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LBRY is a sharing platform that uses blockchain technology to enable users to publish material and get paid for doing so.

Getting inside the human body to have a look around is always going to be invasive, but that doesn't mean more can't be done to make things a little more comfortable. With this goal in mind, German researchers have developed a complex lens system no

Last week, Tesla announced that it was pursuing an acquisition of SolarCity, the troubled solar-panel leasing company that is run by Tesla CEO Elon Musk's cousin Lyndon Rive.

Having a look at 5 aircraft that has something revolutionary about them.

When it comes to human advancement and science, Stephen Hawking knows what he's talking about - and he's voiced his concern on robots

Space.com staff writer Calla Cofield's enthusiasm is contagious as she explains how gravitational waves were discovered for the second time using the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO). T

Scientists at Cambridge University and the Imperial College London have trapped photons inside a tiny gold cavity, forcing it to interact with matter to form a hybrid state.

Jason Ray thinks the culture of "disaster prepping" is misunderstood. Thanks in part to National Geographic's Doomsday Preppers, a reality TV show about preppers, the term conjures images of far-flung, paranoid woodsmen hoarding Borax under the

A "bug out situation" is the phrase used to describe a survival scenario which makes staying at home more dangerous than leaving.

Learning from your mistakes is a key life lesson, and it's one that researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) can attest to.

Summary: The first 500 pairs of shoes produced in Adidas' Speedfactory facility will hit stores this year. Video provided by Newsy

A research team demonstrates over 100 patterns of light used in an optical communication link, potentially increasing the bandwidth of communication systems by 100 times.

When an asset rises by almost 30% in a few weeks, it tends to attract attention.

Six years ago, Wang Huanming was paralyzed from the neck down after being injured wrestling with a friend. Today, he hopes he has found the answer to walking again: a new body for his head.

Panes block sunlight with the flip of a switch

China's plans to secure sovereignty over the South China Sea were illuminated this week in a discovery of the nation's blueprints for a deep sea "space station."

Larry Page, one of the cofounders of Google who is now the CEO of its parent company, Alphabet, has secretly spent more than $100 million to develop flying cars.

In a breakthrough new "direct-doping" process, scientists have embedded light-emitting nanoparticles into glass so that it remains almost perfectly transparent, but glows brightly when stimulated by lower frequency light.

Fifteen years ago, an aerospace engineer named Roger Shawyer drafted the first designs of the EmDrive, a new type of engine that uses microwaves to propel spaceships instead of fuel.

Vitalik Buterin has set the next Ethereum's milestones for 2017 and 2018. According to his paper 'Opportunities and Challenges for Private and Consortium Blockchains', Ethereum 3.0 with 'unlimited' scalability will be released in late 2018.

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Guns are often thought about for their destructive nature, but a new kind of gun is set to help heal rather than harm.

Over the last few years, great strides have been made in creating artificial leaves that mimic the ability of their natural counterparts to produce energy from water and sunlight.

A flat lens made of paint whitener on a sliver of glass could revolutionise optics, according to its US inventors.

Two Israeli companies say they used a specialized 3-D printer to create an environment in which stem cells could grow into a specific tissue.

A team of scientists including Harvard University geneticist George Church and Jef D. Boeke, the founding director of the Institute for Systems Genetics at New York University's Langone Medical Center, have announced a 10-year plan to create a synt

Humans on Mars as early as 2024: That is the timeline that CEO and Founder Elon Musk believes is achievable if everything goes according to plan with the ambitions that he has set for his NewSpace company, SpaceX.

The image of the Sun today is spotless.

Many of us will be firing up our grills this weekend for some well-deserved barbecue time. After all, barbecuing is one of America's favorite pastimes however it certainly isn't one of our most environmentally friendly.

Musk: We intend to launch people to Mars in 2024 … Elon Musk will send a mission to Mars without people on it -- on the Flying Dragon version 2 rocket -- starting in 2018 and launch a rocket headed there every 26 months. - CNBC

currently illegal to patent naturally occurring chemicals, and since Big Pharma would have to reproduce several annonaceous acetogenins in the laboratory to hopefully get the same results as the natural Graviola compounds, we have yet to be introduce

- epigenetic factors - are taking center stage; these include environmental exposures, stress, nutritional factors, and various lifestyle-based variables that are within the ambit of our control and volition, and which are often reversible.

While new tools have emerged to help rehabilitation along, the road back to a healthy life after suffering a stroke can be a long and challenging one.

SECURITY FLAWS IN software can be tough to find. Purposefully planted ones--hidden backdoors created by spies or saboteurs--are often even stealthier.

Crispr allows scientists to control the blueprints of life, for better or worse.

Welcome back to the Art of Manliness Land Navigation Manual. In Part I, we covered how to properly use a compass, how to shoot your bearings, and the best map for navigating: the topo map.

(NaturalNews) As readers of Natural News are well aware, the medical industry, in collusion with Big Pharma, has been over-prescribing antibiotics for years, resulting in new strains of superbugs that are difficult to kill. In point of fact, it's not

India's first re-usable spacecraft will soon take a test flight and will be pitted against the likes of SpaceX's Falcon 9 and Blue Origin's New Shephard rocket, in a race to master re-usable technology for space shuttles.

Orbital ATK unveiled a proposal this week for the creation of a four-person lunar orbit habitat which could be sent to the Moon as early as 2020. The outpost would utilize a modified version of the company's Cygnus cargo ship as well as NASA's Or

Another round of CubeSats, including eight Planet Lab Dove Satellites, were deployed from the International Space Station (ISS) by the Expedition 47 crew. A total of 17 tiny spacecraft were deployed from NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer (NRCSD) at the end

The China National Space Administration (CNSA) presented several slides of the design of its future space station, called Tiangong 3--meaning "Heavenly Palace" in Chinese. The station is expected to be built between 2018 and 2022.

Farmers, put your feet up. Autonomous robots are already being used to inspect crops, count yields and dig up weeds - now they are shepherds too.