There’s A Huge Subterranean Lake of Liquid Water on Mars
LIQUID WATER. It’s official. There is liquid water on Mars. And not just a little, either. A research team led by Roberto Orosei, a...
DARPA Is Funding Research Into AI That Can Explain What It’s “Thinking”
LOOKING AHEAD. Researchers will hold the next wave of artificial intelligences (AI) to the same standard as high school math students...
A New Connection Between Smell and Memory Identified
Summary: A new study reveals how smells we encounter throughout life are encoded in memory. The findings could help develop new smell...
How the Brain Reacts to Food May Be Linked to Overeating
Summary: A new study reports when certain brain areas react more strongly to food rewards than financial rewards, children are more...
Rolls-Royce Is Building Cockroach-Like Robots to Fix Plane Engines
DEBUGGING. Typically, engineers want to get bugs out of their creations. Not so for the U.K. engineering firm (not the famed carmaker)...
Origami-Inspired Device Catches Fragile Sea Creatures Without Harming Them
OOPS! SORRY, SQUID. When researchers want to study fish and crustaceans, it’s pretty easy to collect a sample — tow a net behind a boat...
Former soldiers use AI to wage war on convenience store lines
Trigo Vision, an AI startup founded by former members of the Israeli army’s special forces and intelligence community, just came out of...
SpaceX and Boeing Delays Could Cost NASA Access to the ISS
CLOCK’S TICKING. NASA is facing a bleak prospect. On Wednesday, the Government Accounting Office (GAO), an independent agency that...
BitPay Becomes New York’s First Standalone Crypto Payment Processor
Cryptocurrency payment processor BitPay has become the eighth firm to receive a “BitLicense” from the New York Department of Financial...
Scientists Create New Cochlear Implants That Allow Gerbils to “Hear” Light
USEFUL, BUT NOT PERFECT. For millions of people with hearing impairment, getting a cochlear implant can be life-changing. These...