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Video game hall of fame 2024 inductees

The World Video Game Hall of Fame announces its 2024 inductees

Archivist scanning documents at National Archives

Ancestry and the National Archives are digitizing tens of millions of records

Tandem insulin pump installed on woman's stomach

FDA issues recall for diabetes app after over 200 reported injuries

Fake website advertising dead loved one chatbot

AI ethicists warn of ‘digital hauntings’ from dead loved ones

Ultrasonic cold brew setup using espresso maker and transducer

Blasting coffee grounds with ultrasonic waves creates a 60-second cold brew

Snail robots forming a staircase to reach rock ledge

Swarm of tiny snail robots stick together to form new structures

A person writing on a new M2 iPad Air with an Apple Pencil.

7 things you should know about the new M4 iPad Pro and M2 iPad Air

By Stan Horaczek

Project 821 hydrogen fuel superyacht in port

Welcome aboard the world’s first hydrogen fuel cell superyacht

SpaceX EVA suit helmet close up

SpaceX reveals new sleek spacesuits ahead of upcoming historic mission

Assyrian mural image of lion

Ancient mystery code was probably Sargon II’s name

Telecom towers in farmland

Many rural areas could soon lose cell service

A Long March 5 rocket, carrying the Chang'e-6 mission lunar probe, lifts off as it rains at the Wenchang Space Launch Centre in southern China's Hainan Province on May 3, 2024.

China is en route to collect first-ever samples from the far side of the moon

Sun above earth photo taken from ISS

Space Force finds a dead Cold War-era satellite missing for 25 years

Close up of orangutan

Endangered Species

Orangutan observed using a plant to treat an open wound

Side by side of Reid AI deepfake and Reid Hoffman

Watch a tech billionaire talk to his AI-generated clone

Artist rendering of exoplanet WASP-43b

JWST measures ‘Hot Jupiter,’ a distant exoplanet hot enough to forge iron

Closeup image of a hand writing down on a white blank notebook on wooden table

Why writing by hand is better for remembering things

Boston Dynamics Spot robot in puppet dog costume sitting next to regular Spot robot.

Boston Dynamics gives Spot bot a furry makeover

Woman wearing Razer Zephyr Mask

Surprise! That futuristic COVID mask was even sketchier than we thought

Moon photograph from Artemis 1

China compiled the most detailed moon atlas ever mapped

Woman's hands typing on laptop

Romance scams just ‘happen in life,’ says CEO of biggest dating app company in the US

stack of blu ray discs on a reflective table

Why you shouldn’t throw out those DVDs and Blu-Rays

Used coffee grounds on the paper filter

10 clever ways to reuse coffee grounds

By Debbie Wolfe

Factory of the Future 1.0 3D printer with man standing in front of it

Makers of the world’s largest 3D printer just beat their own record

Little boy biting his nails on grey background

A new button battery dyes kids’ mouths blue if swallowed

Image of sun highlighting four solar events

Rare quadruple solar flare event captured by NASA

Statue of Plato in Greece

A ‘bionic eye’ scan of an ancient, scorched scroll points to Plato’s long-lost gravesite

ACS3 solar sail concept art above Earth

NASA will unfurl a 860-square-foot solar sail from within a microwave-sized cube

NASA wants to measure moonquakes with laser-powered fiber optic cables

PaintCam Eve shooting paintballs at home

Startup pitches a paintball-armed, AI-powered home security camera

CT scan of California condor egg

CT scans look inside a California condor egg

Astronaut Andreas Mogensen aboard the ISS

International Space Station

Let this astronaut show you around the International Space Station

SpaceHopper robot in midair during parabolic flight test

Watch a tripod robot test its asteroid leaping skills

Cargo Ship in Panama Canal

A new solution proposed for drought-stricken Panama Canal goes around it

Toyota concept art for lunar RV

Japan and NASA plan a historic lunar RV roadtrip together

Two robots playing soccer

Watch two tiny, AI-powered robots play soccer

People looking up at eclipse wearing protective glasses

Internet use dipped in the eclipse’s path of totality

Smuggled gold disguised as machine parts

Smugglers melted and spray painted $10 million in gold to look like machine parts

Researchers developed a 3D printer that can automatically identify the parameters of an unknown material on its own. The advance could help make 3D printing more sustainable, enabling printing with renewable or recyclable materials that are difficult to characterize.

3D printers just got a big, eco-friendly upgrade (in the lab)

Close up of shark head

Shark skin and owl feathers could inspire quieter underwater sonar

MUSE stellarator fusion reactor

Stellarator fusion reactor gets new life thanks to a creative magnet workaround

Zodiac Killer Z340 coded message

How cryptographers finally cracked one of the Zodiac Killer’s hardest codes

NASA Lunar Terrain Vehicle concept art

It’s on! Three finalists will design a lunar rover for Artemis

Slide Whistle robot quartet

Watch this robotic slide whistle quartet belt out Smash Mouth’s ‘All Star’

Shoe made from bacterial cellulose

Would you wear this ‘shoe-like vessel’ made from genetically engineered bacteria?

Buzz Aldrin on the moon next to American flag.

NASA is designing a time zone just for the moon

LSST Camera Deputy Project Manager Travis Lange shines a flashlight into the LSST Camera.

Space Telescope

A 3,200-megapixel digital camera is ready for its cosmic photoshoot

Arctic ice flow

Melting ice makes Arctic a target for a new deep sea internet cable

Close up of wolf spider resting on web

Spider conversations decoded with the help of machine learning and contact microphones

Users wearing BCI cap to play video game

This cap is a big step towards universal, noninvasive brain-computer interfaces

Close-up of Gmail homepage on a monitor screen.

Gmail debuted on April Fool’s Day 20 years ago. The joke is still on us.

Dr Ian Phillips with the wavelength management device

Researchers unlock fiber optic connection 1.2 million times faster than broadband

Yuhang Hu working on Emo robot head

A robot named ‘Emo’ can out-smile you by 840 milliseconds

person taking photos of themselves in the dark

Please think twice before letting AI scan your penis for STIs

Image taken of JAXA SLIM lunar lander on moon upside down

Japan’s SLIM moon lander survives a second brutal lunar night

Microscopic image of virus cell impaled on silicon wafer needles

New material neutralizes 96-percent of virus cells using nanospikes

Hand flipping through vinyl records at store

Vinyl records outsold CDs for the second year running

2017 Total Solar Eclipse timelapse

How to photograph the eclipse, according to NASA

Bladder sensor next to smartphone displaying its app

This implant will tell a smartphone app when you need to pee

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 test plane taking off

Boom Supersonic’s prototype jet sets off on first flight

Aerial view of Fukushima nuclear reactor meltdown

Drones offer a glimpse inside Fukushima nuclear reactor 13 years after disaster

Brewintosh Plus next to original Mac Plus

A designer 3D printed a working clone of the iconic Mac Plus

Science Fiction

Vernor Vinge, influential sci-fi author who warned of AI ‘Singularity,’ has died

Neuralink shows first human patient using brain implant to play online chess