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This Week in Tech: Sep 8 – Sep 14, 2018

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Outer's outdoor furniture can stand up to almost any weather conditions.

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Mars Is Radiating Gravity Waves, Which Is Bad News For Human Settlers

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This Simple Home Water Test Tells You Exactly What’s in Your Drinking Water

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Tomorrow’s Mars Landing Will Be Hardest in NASA’s History

Luckily, it's fully prepared.

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New York State Sues Amazon Over Coronavirus Protocols

"Since the pandemic began, it is clear that Amazon has valued profit over people and has failed to ensure the health and safety of its workers."

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Severe COVID-19 Might Lead to Strange Growths Behind the Eyes

"If persisting, [they] might potentially lead to severe vision loss or even blindness."

February 17, 2021
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Advanced Transport

Jaguar Says All Its Cars Will Be Electric in Just Four Years

Elon Musk Says He Wants Future Tesla Roadster to Hover

Xbox Exec Suggests “Tesla x Halo” Collaboration

Startup Unveils World’s First Flying Racecar

Art & Design

Artificial Intelligence

Google News’ “Genetics” Section Is Full of Articles About People Named Gene

New Algorithm Generates Synthetic Human Genetic Code

Scientists Are Weaving Human Brain Cells Into Microchips

Congressional Panel: Please, Let Us Build Killer Robots

Breakthroughs

New Results: First COVID Vaccine Even Better Than Scientists Thought

Second COVID Vaccine Even More Effective, Trial Results Say

Doctors Think This May Be the First Symptom of the Coronavirus

New Map of Key Coronavirus Protein Could Lead to Vaccine

Cancer

Parasite Spread to Humans by Pet Cats Linked to Brain Cancer

Cancer Researcher Sentenced for Stealing Biological Samples

Huge Meta-Study: This Food Appears to Actually Make You Live Longer

This Strange Plant Virus Could Treat Many Cancers

Developments

White House Warns of “Catastrophic Consequences” of New Ebola Outbreaks

In a Grim Development, There’s Officially a New Ebola Epidemic

Doctor Warns That Teens Are Already Clogging Their Arteries

World’s Second Oldest Person Survives COVID, Celebrates With Champagne

Devices

This Skin Patch Can Detect Alcohol and Caffeine in Your Blood

NASA Is Using Fitbits to Prevent COVID Spread Among Astronauts

Neuralink May Start Human Implants Later This Year, Elon Musk Says

Remote Controlled Neural Implant Controls Rats’ Brains

Earth & Energy

Texas Snap Freeze Causes Electricity Prices to Soar 10,000 Percent

Scientists Surprised by “Strange Creatures” Under a Mile of Antarctic Ice

Shell Says Oil Production Will Fall Every Year, Forever

Activists Oppose Upcoming Test of Geoengineering Technology

Enhanced Humans

Bring Your Home Workout Routine Into the 21st Century With a VR Fitness Studio

This Ingenious Stress Relief Device Manipulates Your Nervous System With Gentle Vibrations

Crossrope Weighted Jump Ropes Are a Deceptively Simple Tool for Killer Home Workouts

These Advanced Nootropics Are Specially Formulated to Help Fight Mental Fatigue

Future Society

Bill Gates Says All Wealthy Nations Should Switch to Synthetic Beef

Vitrazza Glass Floor Mats Protect Your Floors From Expensive Office Chair Damage

The Birth Rate in China Dropped Substantially This Year

Lawyer Accidentally Logs Into Court With Zoom Filter Turning Him Into Kitty Cat

Genetics

New Gene Therapy Reverses Aging in Mice

FDA Approves Gene-Hacked Pigs for Human Consumption

Harvard Scientists Claim to Reverse Mouse Aging at Cellular Level

Communist Party Secretly Supported Chinese Gene-Edited Babies, According to New Book

Hard Science

Astronomers Discover Hannibal Lecter Stars That Wear Planet Corpses

NASA Is Hunting Alien Civilizations by Looking for Their Pollution

Scientists Taught Pigs to Play a Video Game

New Browser App Lets You Create Photorealistic Fake People

Health

Health & Medicine

You Already Know How Old You Are. But Do You Know Your True ‘Biological Age’?

Study: Social Media Users More Likely to Be Misinformed About Vaccines

Surgeons Gave This Adorable Cat Four Amazing 3D-Printed Paws

Online Marriage Counseling Is Changing the Way Couples Seek Relationship Help

Home

Kitchen

Mental Health

The Pandemic Has Shattered Young People’s Mental Health

More Evidence Links COVID to Mental Illness, Neurological Disease

Video Shows Agonized Man Crawling Out of Hospital

Survey: 80% of American Young Adults Depressed During Pandemic

Neoscope

Scientists Are About to Give Research Subjects COVID on Purpose

New COVID Strains Appear to Have Evolved in United States

New Weight Loss Drug Hailed as “Game Changer”

These Lab-Grown Follicles Could Offer New Treatment for Baldness

Neuroscience/Brain Science

Brain Implant Successfully Fights Off Depression, Scientists Say

New Brain-Computer Interface Doesn’t Even Need to Touch the Brain

Doctors Link Parkinson’s to a Hormone in Your Gut

As Japan’s Population Ages, a Rare Brain-Eating Disease Is Becoming More Common

Off World

China and Russia Agree to Collaborate on Lunar Base

Greta Thunberg Slams Mars Exploration, Says Earth Needs Help Instead

SpaceX Starship Testing Shut Down by Huge Snowstorm

Bill Gates Says That Going to Mars Is Silly

Organic Chemistry

UFC Investigating Whether Psychedelics Help Fighters With Traumatic Brain Injuries

A Man Injected Himself With Mushrooms and the Fungi Took Over His Blood

Activists Plan to Hand Out Free Weed at DC Vaccination Sites

This, Not Hand Sanitizer, Will Save Us from the COVID-19 Coronavirus

Robotics/Prosthetics

Watch a Quadriplegic Man Feed Himself With Two Bionic Arms

Researchers Built a Powerful Robot Arm to Do Colonoscopies

Bizarre Medical Robot Grabs Your Face, Jabs You With a Nose Swab

US Police Testing “Pandemic Drones” That Monitor Social Distancing

Robots & Machines

You Can Now 3D Print an Entire Semi-Automatic Rifle at Home

Man With Neurodegenerative Disease Builds Robot to Feed Himself

DARPA Wants Fighter Planes to Launch Drones That Then Launch Missiles

Boston Dynamics Robodog Has a Dexterous Arm in New Video

Rx/Medicines

Fauci: We’re Now Testing Whether COVID Vaccines Work on Kids

Pfizer Says It Can Cut Vaccine Manufacturing Time in Half

The Most Vaccinated Country on Earth Is Having Trouble Reopening

Scientists Rushing To Learn If Vaccinated People Still Spread COVID-19

Sci-Fi Visions

Laser Cap Therapy Might Just Be the Baldness Treatment We’ve Been Waiting For

Bill Nye Implores Biden to Protect Earth From Dangerous Asteroids

Ridiculous, Gigantic Laptop Has Seven Screens That Pop Out

NASA Picks SpaceX to Launch Crew Quarters of Lunar Gateway Station

Studies

Study: One Particular Vaccine Protects Against Deadly New COVID Variants

Biologist Deliberately Infects Himself With 50 Hookworms

Deadly UK COVID Variant Will Dominate US by March, Experts Say

Pressing a Tiny Patch Onto Your Skin Could Replace Medical Blood Tests

Style

The Transactor

Toys

Treatments

Surgeons Give Man New Face and Hands

People Who’ve Gotten Both Shots Simply Aren’t Getting COVID

Genetic Engineering Makes Paralyzed Mice Walk Again

Scientists Reprogram Fat Cells to Repair Injuries

Virtuality

These Technologists Are Trying to Recreate Psychedelic Trips in VR

This Company Creates Virtual People for You to Fire in VR

Microsoft’s Tech Can Make Your Hologram Speak Another Language

Watch a Real Pastor Baptize an Anime Girl in Virtual Reality

Elon Musk: Next Starship Test Has 60% Chance of Not Exploding

So you're telling us there's a chance?

February 15, 2021
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First Arab Nation to Orbit Mars Snaps Instagram-Worthy Planet Pic

The Red Planet has never looked so good.

February 14, 2021
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China Discovers “Unusual” Shard on Far Side Of The Moon

"It seems to have a shard-like shape and is sticking out of the ground."

February 14, 2021
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NASA Contractor Signs Deal to Build Greenhouses in Earth’s Orbit

"COVID and the climate change really opened our eyes to the fragility of food security in both the developing and the developed world."

February 12, 2021
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There’s a Crowdfunding Campaign to Send a Flat-Earther to Space

"They call astronauts actors who are paid to lie and that boils my blood."

February 12, 2021
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China Releases Breathtaking Video From Spacecraft Orbiting Mars

Watch the haunting new video of the Red Planet here.

February 12, 2021
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When NASA’s New Rover Lands, Its Other Lander Will Listen for the Impact

If a rover lands on Mars, and no one is around to hear it, does it still make a sound?

February 11, 2021
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See a Russian Cargo Spaceship Disintegrating During Reentry

A beautiful photo shows its fiery demise.

February 11, 2021
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Congress Bars NASA From Working With China. That’s Likely a Mistake.

"America's leadership in the world is not as strong as it used to be."

February 11, 2021
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Radio Telescope Is So Powerful It Can See the Surface of Other Worlds

Get ready for close-up surface images of distant planets in our Solar System.

February 9, 2021
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