Stellar echoes, Venusian automatons and more gain NASA moonshot funding

 NASA has announced the recipients of its most recent round of highly experimental projects it deems…

Microsoft Maluuba teaches management 101 to machines in its first paper since being acquired

 In mid-January, the ongoing race for AI put Montreal-based Maluuba on our radar. Microsoft acquired the…

About this stabbing machine

 Thank you for joining me, ladies, gentlemen. Researchers have created a “stabbing machine,” with which they…

23andMe is finally allowed to tell you if you have the genes for Parkinsons

 The Food and Drug Administration finally gave 23andMe a long sought-after green light today to sell…

Swiss system ups security and reliability of finger-based biometrics

 Biometrics may not be the perfect solution for security, but they can be useful — as…

Unpaywall scours the web for free versions of scientific papers

 The science publishing world is a complex one, but the pendulum is currently swinging away from…

Watch SpaceX’s reused Falcon 9 rocket nail the landing a second time

 SpaceX has posted a video of the Falcon 9 rocket it used first last year during…

Graphene used to sieve salts from seawater

 Researchers at the University of Manchester have come up with a method for controlling the permeation…