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Artificial intelligence could be "billions of times smarter" than humans and people may need to merge with computers to survive, a futurist told CNBC on Tuesday.

In the midst of one of the worst flu seasons in several years, a Japanese pharmaceutical company says it has an experimental drug that could make next winter a lot less sickly – not to mention safer.

Scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed non-blood-absorbing hemostatic gauze after repeated experiments. Compared with traditional medical gauze, this new achievement can diminish blood loss by about 60 percent.

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In a major advancement in nanomedicine, Arizona State University scientists, in collaboration with researchers from the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have successfully programmed nanorobots

The three-year Kilopower safe 4 kilowatt nuclear reactor project started in 2015 with a challenging goal of building and testing a full-scale flight-prototypic nuclear reactor by the end of 2017 mid-2018.

For anyone who wanted a pair of Google glasses but didn't want to look like a lazy Borg cosplay, Intel may have just what you need. Just one catch; you have to be OK with a laser firing photons directly into your retina.

Flying taxis still seem very much like something pulled right out of science fiction, but when transport heavyweights like Boeing, Airbus and Uber start pumping millions of dollars into their development, it might be time to take all of this a bit mo

Seawater is a complex cocktail of useful minerals, but it's hard to separate out the specific ones we need.

Last year Wikileaks released documents detailing how attackers can compromise offline computers. This new study goes one step further, exposing the fallibility of Faraday cages

Washington (AFP) - Could the International Space Station become a commercial venture run by private industry?

2018 will be a transformative year for Tesla Motors. Elon Musk is all-in on creating a making his multi-layer assembly line and capital efficient robotic assembly.

Bitcoin's latest fork is just weeks away and this one's a little different from the rest. Rather than simply tinkering with Segwit or adjusting block sizes, Bitcoin private (BTCP) is adding zk-Snarks.

Continuous low doses of far ultraviolet C (far-UVC) light can kill airborne flu viruses without harming human tissues, according to a new study at the Center for Radiological Research at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC).

TAE Technologies, Inc. (formerly Tri Alpha Energy), the world's largest and most advanced private fusion company, has announced that its proprietary beam-driven field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasma generator, "Norman," surpassed a new tec

In the early '90s, Elizabeth Behrman, a physics professor at Wichita State University, began working to combine quantum physics with artificial intelligence--in particular, the then-maverick technology of neural networks.

The flying taxi could soon be spotted in Dubai and Las Vegas.

One of the overlooked takeaways from the recent Tesla earnings call was connected to automation in battery module production.

Work on styling has been completed and is expected to usher in a new design language for the brand.

SpaceX is producing about 5 engines per week and has the factory capacity for 400 engines per year or about 8 engines per week.

Think and plan a lot bigger in space as the SpaceX BFR will give 1000 times old space capabilities

Companies should forget about trying to close the massive decade plus lead that SpaceX now has with large reusable rockets.

Cancer cells use sugar to divide; starving them of sugar can slow their progression Thursday, February 08, 2018 by: Ralph Flores Tags: anti-cancer, apoptosis, badfood, calcium, cancer, Cancer Cells, cell death, food science, goodcancer, goodme

Higher terahertz frequencies are usable for data transmission which will boost data 100 times over microwaves

With its high theoretical capacity and low electrochemical potential, Li would be the ideal anode for Li-ion batteries. However, practical use of the Li anode has been hindered by its tendency for dendritic growth, which leads to unstable solid elect

(Natural News) Contaminated water contains all sorts of harmful toxins that can result in dangerous diseases in humans. This has led scientists to devise various ways to decontaminate water ---so much so that decontamination has become an industry o

Worse this has bankrolled monopoly enterprises outside the control of any government. One could almost tolerate all this, except the guiding minds are naturally fascists and believe the human population must decline to around 500,000,000 or that ele

Elon Musk has suggested the possibility of a Falcon Super Heavy -- a Falcon Heavy with extra boosters.

Honda recently presented its Mobile Power Pack World – a single battery module for all sorts of different applications.

Gender-bending chemicals found in plastic and linked to breast and prostate cancer are found in 86% of teenagers' bodies

THOUSANDS of planets have been detected outside of the Milky Way Galaxy for the first time in a landmark discovery by a group of esteemed astronomers.

Bitcoin and cryptocurrency mining has become a growing industry, and mining operations continue to compete by making faster chips and purchasing large quantities of land to host data facilities all over the world. Data recorded from around the globe

THE incredible first details about a hypersonic fighter jet that can blast enemy targets as it zaps around the world in three hours have been revealed.

The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has created an environmentally stable, high-efficiency perovskite solar cell, bringing the emerging technology a step closer to commercial deployment.

A Bay Area tech company is claiming the world's first delivery of goods by a self-driving car on public roads, after its electric cargo truck carried groceries from the posh Draeger's grocery store in San Mateo to two nearby locations Tuesday.

The race is most certainly heating up in the world of autonomous flying taxis. From the Intel-backed Volocopter's recent debut at CES to Ehang's autonomous passenger drone, what seemed like a crazy sci-fi idea just a few short years ago is rapidly be

Hydrogen could be a key renewable fuel source in the future, but considering it's the most abundant element in the universe it's surprisingly tricky to produce.

In Shanghai, China, physicist Ruxin Li and colleagues are breaking records a pulse laser at the Shanghai Superintense Ultrafast Laser Facility (SULF). At the center is a single cylinder of titanium-doped sapphire about the width of a Frisbee. In 2016

The Achilles heel of cancer has been found. Cancer patients can dispatch Trojan horses into cancer cells and kill them in place without side effect. Cancer cells are vulnerable to changes in the level of intracellular calcium. Subtle changes in ca

A team of researchers at the Institute of Synthetic Polymer Materials of the Russian Academy of Sciences, MIPT, and elsewhere has found out how the regularity of polypropylene molecules and thermal treatment affect the mechanical properties of the en

Reversible lithium metal electrode has potential to almost double the energy density of lithium-ion batteries and lower the cost to $100 per kilowatt hour.

Stanford Cancer 'vaccine' eliminates any cancer tumor in mice and human trials are starting

Vitiligo is an autoimmune disease that destroys skin pigment, leaving areas of skin looking like they've been bleached white. Although things like steroid creams may help in some cases, often there isn't much that can be done.

Welcome to New World Next Week - the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week:

Additional details of the "SPS-ALPHA Mk-II" will be presented in the second edition of a Mankin book. The book is planned for release in 2018.

Three-dimensional printing is one of the most talked-about technologies of this decade.

Measuring space telescope distortion to one-tenth the size of a hydrogen atom will enable earth sized exoplanet analysis

Researchers have demonstrated how to create a super-strong aluminum alloy that rivals the strength of stainless steel, an advance with potential industrial applications.

for when you want a bedroom, kitchen or bathroom...This tiny house has furniture folded inside its walls, mimicking the functionality of a Swiss Army Knife. The ninety-six-square-foot building, which cost just £35,000 to build, starts out consistin