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Boeing's crew taxi returned to Earth from the International Space Station on Wednesday, completing a repeat test flight before NASA astronauts climb aboard.... Read more »

NASA's Earth Observatory has released satellite images of an undersea volcano erupting.... Read more »

Boeing managed to dock a spacecraft at the International Space Station late last week, but it was not without several minor hangups.... Read more »

Measuring the expansion rate of the universe was one of the Hubble Space Telescope's main goals when it was launched in 1990. Over the past 30 years, the space observatory has helped scientists discover and refine that accelerating rate -- as well as uncover a mysterious wrinkle that only brand-new... Read more »

The District of Columbia on Monday sued Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg, seeking to hold him personally liable for the Cambridge Analytica scandal, a privacy breach of millions of Facebook users' personal data that became a major corporate and political scandal.... Read more »

Facebook parent Meta said it will start publicly providing more details about how advertisers target people with political ads just months ahead of the U.S. midterm elections.... Read more »

The race to resume supersonic passenger flights nearly two decades after the retirement of Concorde was offered a glimmer of excitement on Monday when plane manufacturer Bombardier revealed high speed achievements while confirming the launch of its new business jet.... Read more »

Misinformation, trolling and worse has always existed online, but content moderators say they saw a shift after the U.S. elected Donald Trump president in 2016 that reached a new height when George Floyd, a Black man in Minneapolis, was killed in police custody in May 2020, fuelling racial tensions just... Read more »

Why does smoke seem to follow you around a campfire? B.C. research scientist Kerry Anderson told CTVNews.ca the answer actually boils down to physics.... Read more »

Sniper Elite 5, the latest game in the Sniper Elite series, releases May 26th. Here is our review of the game.... Read more »

Monte Carlo will use aninfusion of new capital to continue improving experiences for its hundreds of customers, scale the data observability category to new verticals, and grow its U.S. and EMEA go-to-market and engineering teams. ... Read more »

Armed with valuable data insights, HR leaders can use AI to augment their processes and build a future of work that's intelligent by design.... Read more »

Perhaps cross-fertilizing machine learning and operations research with techniques and lessons learned could help lift both of them up.... Read more »

A new report from Data.ai shows that mobile gaming's momentum has not slowed, and it's got an even bigger lead on PC and console.... Read more »

8th Wall is offering a host of new features to AR and VR developers in what feels like a huge push towards making the Metaverse workable.... Read more »

A growing number of customer intelligence platforms are utilizing contextual AI and machine learning to understand structured and unstructured data. Idiomatic aims to set itself apart in the space.... Read more »

Growth of subscription-based gaming shows the industry direction and its increasing reliance on high-performance, reliable infrastructure.... Read more »

The changes we’re seeing in worker sentiment and preference run deeper than the pandemic and a "return to normal" may not mean what we think.... Read more »

Sad Cat announced it's delaying its upcoming title Replaced, as developers in Belarus and Ukraine continue to be affected by the war.... Read more »

On the fourth anniversary of the GDPR, organizations are still struggling to ensure regulatory compliance, but why?... Read more »

Mend claims its platform is now the first to automatically find and fix application security holes involving both open-source and custom code. The company combines automated remediation for SAST with its existing ability to automatically remediate SCA.... Read more »

What happens when there's a weak link in the supply chain? While you can’t control for all the variables, you can be prepared to respond.... Read more »

For DeFi to mature, there’s a need to consolidate the blockchains and facilitate transactions between them. That's where Meter comes in.... Read more »

Dinosaurs sit at the crossroads between reptiles and birds, leading scientists to debate whether they were warm- or cold-blooded. A new study may have found the answer for different groups of dinosaurs, by analyzing metabolic markers from their breath in their bones.Continue ReadingCategory: Biology, ScienceTags: Dinosaurs, Blood, metabolism, Fossils, Animals,... Read more »

Researchers at EPFL have demonstrated a light-based 3D-printing method that's about 30 times faster than conventional additive manufacturing, creating objects in 20 seconds that would normally take more like 10 minutes thanks to photocurable resins.Continue ReadingCategory: 3D Printing, TechnologyTags: EPFL, 3D Printing, Light, Manufacturing... Read more »

The ocean absorbs almost a quarter of the carbon dioxide generated by human activity, and in doing so chemical reactions take place that make its waters more acidic. Measuring this effect is possible to an extent with sensors fitted to stationary buoys and vessels, but a newly fitted out deep-diving... Read more »

Lasers are one of the tools physicians can lean on to tackle plaque buildup on arterial walls, but current approaches carry a risk of complications and can be limited in their effectiveness. By bringing ultrasound into the mix, scientists at the University of Kansas have demonstrated a new take on... Read more »

Chopping down trees and processing the wood isn’t the most efficient or environmentally friendly way to make furniture or building materials. Scientists at MIT have now made breakthroughs in a process that could one day let us 3D print and grow wood directly into the shape of furniture and other... Read more »

The SSC Tuatara is officially the world's fastest car, but it's not the world's first 300 mph production car. That title's still up for grabs after YouTubers called shenanigans on SSC's claimed 316 mph run in 2020. But this car sure looks capable.Continue ReadingCategory: Automotive, TransportTags: World's Fastest, SSC, Hypercar,... Read more »

From pit vipers to funnel web spiders, living creatures continue to prove a rich source of medicines with life-saving potential, but some are more forthcoming than others with their powerful compounds and molecules. A 25-year search for another source of a promising anti-cancer chemical produced by a rare coral species... Read more »

Boeing's Starliner passenger spacecraft has successfully returned to Earth. At 5:49 pm CDT, the uncrewed capsule landed at the US Army's White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico at the end of a six-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS).Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: Boeing, NASA, International Space Station, CST-100... Read more »

Just moments after the deep parade of camperized pickups and large trucks ended at Overland Expo West 2022, an equally compelling pickup made its debut across the Atlantic. Isuzu UK used this year's Commercial Vehicle Show to introduce the fully ruggedized D-Max Arctic Trucks AT35 Basecamp, a highly maneuverable light... Read more »

Mapping the inside of cramped, difficult-to-reach areas can be helpful to people such as plant operators, but drones flown in such places could easily crash. The LiDAR- and cage-equipped Elios 3 quadcopter was designed with that challenge in mind.Continue ReadingCategory: Drones, TechnologyTags: Mapping, LIDAR, Quadcopter... Read more »

Because seeds may contain yield-reducing fungi, bacteria or viruses, they're often chemically treated before they're sold to farmers. A new mobile system, however, substitutes microbe-killing electrons for harsh and eco-unfriendly chemicals.Continue ReadingCategory: Environment, ScienceTags: Fraunhofer, Agriculture, Crops, Plants, Electrons, Antibacterial, Fungus... Read more »

Researchers at Northwestern University in Illinois have demonstrated the world's smallest remote-controlled walking robot, at just half a millimeter wide. Such tiny machines can bend, twist, crawl, walk, turn and jump without hydraulics or electricity.Continue ReadingCategory: Robotics, TechnologyTags: Northwestern University, Crabs, Robotics, Remote-Control, Miniature, Shape Memory Alloys... Read more »

Vietnamese architectural firm NAW Studio has completed a contemporary home with a unique facade that embraces sustainable design and passive air flow. Appropriately titled Flow House, the home is located just outside of Da Nang City, Vietnam (known for its high temperatures and humidity), and is made up of three... Read more »

While aluminum is a very popular choice for bicycle frames, the welds which join the tubes together leave a lot to be desired. Vanpowers Bike's City Vanture ebike takes a different approach, by having the buyer join the tubes via mortise and tenon joints.Continue ReadingCategory: Bicycles, TransportTags: ebikes, Indiegogo... Read more »

Any hospital, individual, medical device or drug can have a digital twin, allowing the safe testing of treatments, process changes and modifications of design. The post Digital Twins And The Promise Of Personalized Medicine appeared first on The Medical Futurist.... Read more »

From digital stethoscopes to pocket-sized ECGs and portable ultrasounds, the diagnostics potential you can carry in your bag is amazing these days. The post The 7 Must-Haves For The Doctor Of the 21st Century appeared first on The Medical Futurist.... Read more »

Full overview of how 3D bioprinting will break into healthcare revolutionizing organ donations & animal testing. The post 3D Bioprinting: Eradicating Transplantation Waiting Lists And Testing Drugs On Living Tissues appeared first on The Medical Futurist.... Read more »

Vein scanner, a handheld device helping a nurse or a phlebotomist to find the right vein to take your blood sample for the first try. The post Not In Vein – The Aimvein Pro2.0 Vein Finder Review appeared first on The Medical Futurist.... Read more »

Under-researched female health problems have incredible societal costs. Not only on the labour market, where conditions like rheumatoid arthritis, autoimmune diseases and similar ‘womanly’ problems take off years of the careers of millions. But also in other areas: paying for the extra years in elderly care or losing the capacities... Read more »

From bionic eyes to artificial retinas, CRISPR to deep learning algorithms, this is a buzzing field of research with revolutionary promises, potentially affecting the lives of a billion people. The post The Future Of Vision And Eye Care appeared first on The Medical Futurist.... Read more »

They all want to build strongholds early in this expeccted-to-become super lucrative segment. The road is bumpy, marked with expensive failures and promising successes. The post The 2022 Healthcare Power Ranking Of Tech Giants appeared first on The Medical Futurist.... Read more »

Every now and then we see something that freaks out even the seasoned team of The Medical Futurist. From robot nannies taking care of human babies grown in artificial wombs to waking up with an electric shock. The post The Top 10 Super-Creepy Medical Technologies appeared first on The Medical Futurist.... Read more »

Medical A.I. will surely become competent enough to efficiently deal with a great number of health questions. But tricking patients into believing they interact with a human practitioner when they are not is an entirely different issue. The post How To Spot If Your Remote Care Physician Is An A.I.?... Read more »

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are colossal expulsions of plasma and magnetic field from the sun's corona. Explore CMEs in more detail here in our guide.... Read more »

Grab the HP Reverb G2 at a bargain price in this early Memorial Day deal.... Read more »

On May 26, 1983, the European Space Agency launched its first X-ray observatory into space. See how it happened in our On This Day In Space video series.... Read more »

AstroForge, which was founded in January 2022, came out of stealth mode today (May 26), announcing that it aims to become the first-ever viable asteroid mining company.... Read more »

Venus and the moon will meet up in the sky Thursday (May 26) and you can catch their greetings online.... Read more »

CAPSTONE, which will launch no earlier than June 6, aims to verify the stability of the lunar orbit that will be used by NASA's Gateway space station.... Read more »

Boeing's Starliner spacecraft has completed a key test mission, and the company is ready to work out a few kinks so astronauts can climb aboard.... Read more »

The asteroid is four times the size of the Empire State Building, but poses no immediate threat to us.... Read more »

Boeing's Starliner astronaut taxi has landed safely back on Earth, wrapping up its long-anticipated and crucial test flight to the International Space Station.... Read more »

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