Emerging Tech

Pizza vending machines are coming, and they’re perfect for the pandemic era

By Luke Dormehl
pizza

Tesla shows how it’s using EV parts to build ventilators

The design uses components of the Model 3, including the infotainment system
By Georgina Torbet

Meet the sci-fi startup building computer chips with real biological neurons

By Luke Dormehl
Cortical Labs

Joint Mission to Mercury makes a ‘goodbye flyby’ of Earth

By Georgina Torbet
BepiColombo cartoon characters 'hug' Earth ahead of the spacecraft's flyby, scheduled on 10 April.

Hubble may have found the ‘missing link’ in black hole formation

By Georgina Torbet
artist’s impression depicts a star being torn apart by an intermediate-mass black hole

How to watch the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft depart the ISS on Tuesday

By Georgina Torbet
SpaceX's Dragon resupply ship slowly approaches the orbiting lab as both spacecraft were orbiting 258 miles above the Mediterranean Sea Dec. 9, 2019. Filled with more than 4,000 pounds of valuable scientific experiments and other cargo, Dragon is now set to leave the International Space Station Monday, April 6.

The largest astronomical project on the planet shut down due to coronavirus

By Georgina Torbet
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Three words: Robot. Talent. Agency.

By Luke Dormehl
Spot, a robot dog.

Awesome Tech You Can’t Buy Yet: Ultrafast toothbrushes and a laptop/phone hybrid

By Drew Prindle
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NASA wants to launch a set of six mini spacecraft to observe the sun

By Georgina Torbet
A new NASA mission called SunRISE will study what drives solar particle storms - giant surges of solar particles that erupt off of the Sun - as depicted in this illustration. Understanding how such storms affect interplanetary space can help protect spacecraft and astronauts.

NASA lays out plans for building a long-term moon base

By Georgina Torbet
2020 tech trends for the decade nasa artemis moon mission
Tech for Change

An IBM supercomputer called Summit is taking on the coronavirus

By Trevor Mogg
Summit supercomputer

Deep-learning A.I. is helping archaeologists translate ancient tablets

By Luke Dormehl
DeepScribe project 1

Environmentally friendly bendable concrete doesn’t shatter under pressure

By Luke Dormehl
swinburne university bendable concrete

VR is making medical training cheaper, better, and more accessible than ever

By Neil Gladstone
vr medical training virti surgery simulation mediaca realities 2

Could cellular seafood take pressure off Earth’s overfished oceans?

By Luke Dormehl
Cellular Seafood BlueNalu

Climate change is killing coffee farms, so Atomo is brewing it without beans

By Jenny McGrath
climate change is killing coffee farms so atomo brewing it without beans press orange fb
More Emerging Tech

NASA’s WFIRST telescope has a new approach to the hunt for exoplanets

By Georgina Torbet
Artist’s illustration of the WFIRST spacecraft.

NASA’s Perseverance rover’s new wheels can grip and better withstand rocks

By Georgina Torbet
Three of the six flight wheels that will travel to Mars can be seen attached to NASA's Perseverance rover (which is inverted on a handling fixture) on March 30, 2020 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The protective antistatic foil covering the wheels will be removed before launch this summer.

Can chloroquine cure coronavirus? Here’s what science says

By Will Nicol
France Toughens Coronavirus Lockdown As Death Toll Rises

IBM turned its Jeopardy-winning A.I. into the world’s smartest COVID-19 chatbot

By Luke Dormehl
ibm watson covid 19 chatbot assistant

Another SpaceX Starship prototype destroyed during pressure test

By Georgina Torbet
r SpaceX Starship prototype destroyed

Watch the James Webb Space Telescope deploy its massive origami mirror

By Georgina Torbet
Deployment tests like these help safeguard mission success by physically demonstrating that NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is able to move and unfold as intended.

The high-tech quest to detect COVID-19 via voice

By Luke Dormehl
voice assistant

The MasterClass online courses you should be taking while you’re stuck at home

By Jennifer Allen
best masterclass courses masterclass2

Best cheap drone deals for April 2020: DJI, Potensic, and more

By Ed Oswald
dji mavic air review 8

Most art galleries are closed, but you can still tour this one — with a robot

By Luke Dormehl
Hastings Gallery telepresence robot 1

NASA reveals how many Americans applied to become an astronaut

By Trevor Mogg
astronaut mobile game contest

How risky is air travel right now? A new supercomputer model has answers

By Luke Dormehl
traveler being scanned

Why everyone is watching livestreams of normal life amid social distancing

By Shubham Agarwal
man at home

Crowdfunding in the age of coronavirus

By Neil Gladstone
MSR factory tour worker

NASA’s Mars helicopter spins blades for last time before launch

By Trevor Mogg
Mars 2020 helicopter

The best light therapy lamps for 2020

By Dallon Adams

Urine luck: Astronauts’ pee could be the secret ingredient to future moon bases

By Luke Dormehl
moon base

Groundbreaking A.I. brain implant translates thoughts into spoken words

By Luke Dormehl
ibm-chip-human-brain-robot-overlord

The peaceful-looking Umbrella Galaxy has a violent, cannibalistic past

By Georgina Torbet
The spiral galaxy NGC 4651, captured in by the Hubble Space Telescope in an image released on March 30, 2020.

Uranus is losing its atmosphere because of its weird wobbly magnetic field

By Georgina Torbet
Voyager 2 took this image as it approached the planet Uranus on Jan. 14, 1986. The planet's hazy bluish color is due to the methane in its atmosphere, which absorbs red wavelengths of light.

11 million names to be carried to Mars on NASA’s Perseverance rover

By Georgina Torbet
A placard commemorating NASA's "Send Your Name to Mars" campaign was installed on the Perseverance Mars rover on March 16, 2020, at Kennedy Space Center. Three silicon chips (upper left corner) were stenciled with 10,932,295 names and the essays from 155 finalists in NASA's "Name the Rover" contest.

SpaceX selected to deliver cargo to NASA’s Lunar Gateway space station

By Georgina Torbet
Illustration of the SpaceX Dragon XL as it is deployed from the Falcon Heavy's second stage in high Earth orbit on its way to the Gateway in lunar orbit.
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