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Millions of households experience food insecurity in America. What if you could get a free meal simply by texting the word “Hungry”?
Tech giants have teamed up to help innovate the PPE supply chain and lessen the risk of future shortages, starting with the world's leading thread supplier.
Google wants to create the world’s largest earthquake detector by using the accelerometers of Android phones and city-level location data.
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Extremely rare but massively disruptive, no one sees a black swan event coming. But researchers are building a method that may change that.
Researchers use CRISPR to create a gene-edited squid. This work could help advance research on neurodegenerative diseases like Huntington's or Alzheimer's.
The Field Trip app aims to help people get some of the benefits of psychedelic-assisted therapy outside the confines of a clinic.
Is it safe to fly right now? An MIT professor calculated the risk of air travel during the pandemic in two different flight scenarios.
Researchers believe just one ayahuasca experience may be enough to have a lasting effect on the brain.
A new technique for tracking space junk with lasers works during daylight hours — making previously “invisible” space debris visible.
DEF CON’s Space Security Challenge 2020 tasked teams with hacking satellites. The grand prize? Nothing less than the moon.
A non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation device can make language learning easier — and it might help with other types of learning, too.
Voting machines may have security vulnerabilities, so the largest supplier is inviting pro hackers to find them.
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Cities around the globe are tackling sustainability, transportation, and design.
Asteroids, supervolcanoes, earthquakes, oh my...
We have to find ways to produce more food, faster and more efficiently
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A new generation of hackers is rising up
Anyone with a computer and an idea can move the world
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Out-of-the-box ideas that could become the norm tomorrow