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SELECT LONGREADS:
- The Mystery of Kawasaki Disease (Mosaic)
- Inside the Largest Virtual Psychology Lab in the World (Backchannel)
- Hollywood’s Science Fiction Guns (Discover Magazine)
- “Good Enough” Tanks Won WWII (Discover Magazine)
- Building Better Cyborg Horses (Discover Magazine)
- How Scientific Racism at the Chicago’s World’s Fair Shaped ‘Bioshock Infinite’ (Motherboard)
- Why 3-D Printing Matters for ‘Made in U.S.A.’ (TechNewsDaily)
- Today’s Humans Ready to Love Tomorrow’s Robots (LiveScience)
- ‘Princess Scientists’ Stir Controversy (LiveScience)
- Critics Say Cal’s Genetic Tests Ignore ‘Asian Flush’ Risks (LiveScience)
- Genetic Science Oozes Out of Amateurs’ Garages (LiveScience)
- For the U.S. Military, Video Games Get Serious (LiveScience)
- Living with the Ghosts of Climate Change (Reader’s Digest Asia)
- Secrets of Storytelling: Why We Love a Good Yarn (Scientific American Mind – Subscription Required)
- Storm Signs from New York’s Past (Scienceline)
Backchannel
- Apple Is Losing Its Shine in China
- You Are the Target of Today’s Cyberwars
- Tech Leaders Are Just Now Getting Serious About the Threats of AI
- It’s 2016. Where’s My Flying Pizza?
- Microsoft Weaponizes Minecraft in the War Over Classrooms
- Amazon’s Bet on Twitch Was Ahead of Its Time
- Inside the Largest Virtual Psychology Lab in the World
Wired
- Disposable Drones Could Deliver Supplies Under Enemy Fire
- The Army Gets Back in the Ship-Killing Business
- Despite Trump, Silicon Valley’s Pentagon Ties Stay Strong
- The Military May Soon Buy the Same Drones You Do
- Can the Ice Wall in ‘Game of Thrones’ Survive Science?
Scientific American
- Will Tesla’s Tiles Finally Give Solar Shingles Their Day in the Sun?
- Horny Buyers Are Not Driving the Illegal Rhino Horn Trade
- Forget Flying Cars: Passenger Drones May Be Hovering Soon at a Location Near You
- When It Comes to Safety, Autonomous Cars Are Still “Teen Drivers”
- NASA Plans to Build a Gigantic Space Telescope from 2 Tiny CubeSats
- Mosquitoes Will Save Us All … from Mosquitoes
- The U.S. Is About to Get Much Better Weather Satellites
- Could Medical Cannabis Break the Painkiller Epidemic?
- Rise of the Ag-Bots Will Not Sow Seeds of Unemployment
- Snakebite Antivenom Development Is Stuck in the 19th Century–What’s Next?
- NASA Eyes Torpedo Tech as an Alternative to Nuclear Batteries
- How to Stop People from Flying Drones into Airplanes
- Future “Top Guns” Will Be Battle Managers Flying Bigger, Slower Aircraft
- Lenin’s Body Improves with Age
- SARS Outbreak Isolators Helped “Ebola Air” Fly Infected Patients
- Multitasking Gene May Help Drone Operators Control Robotic Swarms
- “Ambiguous” Warfare Buys Upgrade Time for Russia’s Military
- Global Conflict Could Threaten Geostationary Satellites
- The Army’s Flying Car Could Take Off This Year
- ‘Net Neutrality’ Ruling Opens Door for 2-Tiered Internet Market
- Japan’s Offshore Wind Power Rises within Sight of Fukushima Nuclear Plant
- Carbon Nanotube Computer Hints at Future Beyond Silicon
- What Will Nasa’s Next Spacesuit Look Like?
- There Are More Boys Than Girls in China and India
IEEE Spectrum
- DeepMind Shows AI Has Trouble Seeing Homer Simpson’s Actions
- FDA Assembles Team to Oversee AI Revolution in Health
- AI Learns Gender and Racial Biases from Language
- Texas Hold’em AI Bot Taps Deep Learning to Demolish Humans
- Self-Destructing Gadgets Made Not So Mission Impossible
- AI Decisively Defeats Human Poker Players
- AI Could Transform the Science of Counting Crowds
- Deep Learning AI for NASA Powers Earth Robots
- ‘Paper Watch’ Aims to Democratize Fitness Trackers
- Deep Learning AI Listens to Machines For Signs of Trouble
- U.S. Navy’s Drone Boat Swarm Practices Harbor Defense
- Cheap, Rugged, Sweat-Sensing Skin Patch Hints at Bloodless Testing
- New Computer Combines Electronic Circuits with Light Pulses
- Google’s Deep Mind Gives AI a Memory Boost That Lets It Navigate London’s Underground
- Google Translate Gets a Deep-Learning Upgrade
- IBM’s Brain-Inspired Chip Tested for Deep Learning
- Modern Airports Offer No Easy Way Out for Panicking Crowds
- DARPA Challenge Tests AI as Cybersecurity Defenders
- Now You Too Can Buy Cloud-Based Deep Learning
- Finding One Face In a Million
- Smart Watch Beats Smartphone in Lifesaving CPR
- NASA to Test Upgraded Earth Models for Solar Storm Threat
- Power Problems Threaten to Strangle Exascale Computing
- Graphene Paper Transforms Into Tiny Origami Robots
- Stretchable Antenna Boosts Range for Wearable Devices
- Artificial Intelligence Outperforms Human Data Scientists
- Australians Invent Architecture for a Full-Scale Silicon Quantum Computer
- IBM Shows First Full Error Detection for Quantum Computers
- Theory Lowers the Speed Limit for Quantum Computing
- Poker Pros School Computer on No-Limit Texas Hold’em
- Poker-Playing AIs Today, Skynet Tomorrow
- Building AI to Play by Any Rules
- Error Correction Moves Quantum Computing Closer to Reality
- Crabster Robot Deployed During South Korean Ferry Disaster
- Aero-X Hoverbike To Go on Sale in 2017
- Quantum Computing Experiment Adds “Control Knob” for D-Wave Machine
- D-Wave’s Year of Computing Dangerously
- A Big Step Toward a Silicon Quantum Computer
- Teaching AI to Be Sociable
- Wi-Fi Cloud Hovers Over Salt Lake City
Popular Science
- This Car Plans to Break 1,000 MPH
- 4 Technologies That Will Carry the Weight of War
- Building Soluble Circuits To Help End E-Waste
- A Solar-Powered Drone Designed to Fly for Five Years Nonstop
- Behold! The Car-Size, Six-Legged Crabster
- NASA’s Plan to Deal with Pesky Moon Dust
- MIT Harnesses Online Crowds to Beat DARPA Balloon Challenge in Just 9 Hours
- Invention Awards: Eco-Friendly Insulation Made From Mushrooms
- Depiction vs. Reality: The Air Force Hardware of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
- A Mariner’s Tool Could Help Astronauts Navigate Alien Worlds
- It’s About Time: A Power Line That Sheds Heavy Ice
Motherboard
Popular Mechanics
Astrobiology Magazine
- Why Does Earth Have No Super-Earth Cousins?
- Tiny Submersible Could Search for Life in Europa’s Ocean
- Microbe Risk When Rover Wheels Hit Martian Dirt
- How Mars Sample Return Mission Could Go Electric
- Radiation No Concern for Space Crops?
- Countering Contamination for Mars Spacesuits
- Catastrophic Darkness
- Shooting Meteorites in a Barrel
- Worms on ICE
LiveScience
- 3-D Printing Aims to Deliver Organs on Demand
- Cosmic Rays May Reveal Damage to Fukushima’s Nuclear Reactors
- Radioactive Water Leaks from Fukushima: What We Know
- ‘Princess Scientists’ Stir Controversy
- Virtual Behavior Labs Discover What Gamers Want
- The Future Is Here: Cyborgs Walk Among Us
- Chinese Brain-Imaging Device a Suspected Copy of U.S. Device
- A Renaissance Scholar Helps Build Virtual Rome
- Superhero or Supervillain: Which Lurks Inside You?
- Sloppy Records Cast Galileo’s Trial in New Light
- Why Raccoons Didn’t Cut It As Lab Rats
- Genetic Science Oozes Out of Amateurs’ Garages
- For the U.S. Military, Video Games Get Serious
- Critics Say Cal’s Genetic Tests Ignore ‘Asian Flush’ Risks
- Tibetans Underwent Fastest Evolution Seen in Humans
- The Psychology of Darth Vader Revealed
- Video Gamers Can Control Dreams, Study Suggests
- Is Antarctica Falling Apart?
- Why ‘Terminator’ is So Creepy
- The Truth About Angels, Demons and Antimatter
- Why Dead Authors Can Thrill Modern Readers
- Case Closed on Murders of Last Russian Czar’s Family
- World of Warcraft Video Game Succeeds in School
- Hollywood Gets Inside the Minds of Moviegoers
- Caveman vs. Modern Human: Who Would Win Olympic Gold?
TechNewsDaily / InnovationNewsDaily
- Face of the Future: How Facial Recognition Tech Will Change Everything
- Inflatable Earbuds Aim for Apple Debut
- Why 3-D Printing Matters for ‘Made in U.S.A.’
- James Bond’s MI6 Fails Cybersecurity in ‘Skyfall’
- Can a New Smart Bra Really Detect Cancer?
- Online Sleuthing Casts Doubt on ‘Gospel of Jesus’ Wife’
- How Video Game Statistics Could Transform War
- Future Battlefields: Less ‘Star Wars,’ More Tiny Robots
- Why Creepy Uncanny Valley Keeps Us on Edge
- ‘Hunger Games’ Exposes Myth of Technological Progress
- Today’s Humans Ready to Love Tomorrow’s Robots
- ‘Mass Effect’ Controversy: How Video Games Have Freed Storytelling
- The Truth About NASA’s Space Tech Spinoffs
- Archaeology’s Tech Revolution Since Indiana Jones
- Supercomputer Titans Face Huge Energy Costs
- Could America Really Build a ‘Star Wars’ AT-AT Walker?
SPACE.com
- Experts Question Usefulness of Air Force’s Robotic X-37B Space Plane
- New Private Spacesuit Unveiled with New York Flair
- Mystery Spirals on Mars Finally Explained
- Earth-Sized World Could Lurk in Outer Solar System
- Controversy Flares Over Space-based Solar Power Plans
- Europa or Mars: Where Could Extraterrestrial Life Be Found First?
- How NASA Hopes to Mine Water on the Moon
- Space Station Experiment to Hunt Antimatter Galaxies
- As Science Evolves, So Does Pluto
- Will NASA Ever Find Life on Mars?