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What Are Hoverboards And Why Do They Explode?
Technology

What Are Hoverboards And Why Do They Explode?

Popular Science investigates the self-balancing scooter

Meet America’s Anti-Anti-Science Crusader
Health

Meet America’s Anti-Anti-Science Crusader

Anne Schuchat battles pandemics, anti-vaccers, and the flu

DJI Inspire In Flight
Drones

FAA Says All Owners of Small Drones Must Register By February 19, 2016

Anything heavier than half a pound needs registration

Q&A: How ‘Star Wars’ Creators Made BB-8 Into A Robot Icon
Best of What's New

Q&A: How ‘Star Wars’ Creators Made BB-8 Into A Robot Icon

R2-D2 finally gets a robotic rival

Mapping Astronauts’ Behavior On The ISS Could Make A Better Ride To Mars
International Space Station

Mapping Astronauts’ Behavior On The ISS Could Make A Better Ride To Mars

How much space does each astronaut really need?

Elon Musk speaks ahead of COP 21 Paris Climate Talks
AI

New ‘OpenAI’ Artificial Intelligence Group Formed By Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, And More

A Silicon Valley supergroup has united to keep AI open -- so they say

From A Risky Spacewalk To The Top of Mount Everest
Space

From A Risky Spacewalk To The Top of Mount Everest

Retired astronaut Scott Parazynski talks about his life of adventure

How Otto Winzen Took Men Into the Stratosphere
Space

How Otto Winzen Took Men Into the Stratosphere

Why Does Stale Bread Turn Hard, But Stale Chips Turn Soft?
Ask Us Anything

Why Does Stale Bread Turn Hard, But Stale Chips Turn Soft?

Short answer: A chip is all crust

Terror on Twitter
Social Media

Terror on Twitter

How ISIS is taking war to social media—and social media is fighting back.

Tokyo Police Form Anti-Drone Squad
Drones

Tokyo Police Form Anti-Drone Squad

Net-wielding robots for our cyberpunk now

Computers Are Closer To Copying The Way Humans Learn
AI

Computers Are Closer To Copying The Way Humans Learn

Training artificial intelligence to write letters

Is Multi-Millionfold Speedup Proof That Google Is Really Quantum Computing?
Physics

Is Multi-Millionfold Speedup Proof That Google Is Really Quantum Computing?

Controversial machine is 100,000,000x faster at certain problems

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AI

Facebook Open-Sources The Computers Behind Its Artificial Intelligence

Introducing 'Big Sur,' the brains of A.I.

The First Litter Of Test-Tube Puppies Has Been Born
Animals

The First Litter Of Test-Tube Puppies Has Been Born

In vitro cuteness

These Are The Winners Of The Nikon Small World Video Contest
Animals

These Are The Winners Of The Nikon Small World Video Contest

Take a look inside the life and death struggles of extraordinarily tiny creatures

How We Learn To Eat
Science

How We Learn To Eat

A new book looks at the science of what we like

Greenpeace
Climate Change

Greenpeace Investigation Finds Researchers Who’ll Defend Fossil Fuels For Cash

Dirty fuel, dirty money

Arsenic From Copper Mines In Chile Was Found In Antarctic Ice
Environment

Arsenic From Copper Mines In Chile Was Found In Antarctic Ice

Arsenic and old ice

Kepler and the Universe
Space

Kepler and the Universe