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Hanson Robotics is going to begin mass-producing Sophia the robot in 2021, making the social robot available to help combat the pandemic.
A personalized skin cancer vaccine developed from melanoma survivors’ own tumor cells has shown promise in a small trial.
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Moderna is trialing a COVID-19 vaccine booster designed to increase protection against a South African strain of the coronavirus.
Stimulating the brain with electricity could be a treatment for OCD. Researchers test electrical stimulation to reduce compulsive behavior.
The European Commission has approved the sale of Carmat’s total artificial heart, which is designed for patients with end-stage heart failure.
The northern white rhino species is down to just two members, both female. Can science bring it back from the brink of extinction?
An AI trained to spot signs of fresh craters on Mars in photos of the Martian surface has already discovered dozens of new impacts.
Scientists are using a modified kombucha SCOBY to create materials that sense pollutants, purify water, or make damage-sensing packaging materials.
Doctors in Israel used a combination of AR surgery and 3D printing to repair a patient’s damaged eye socket quickly and efficiently.
There's a lot of trash in outer space. We need to clean it up before it becomes unusable.
Bluebots, robotic fish developed at Harvard, are the first robots to demonstrate complex swarm behaviors underwater.
A new AI-based technique can make a nearly 100% accurate prostate cancer diagnosis from a urine sample, potentially saving patients from unneeded biopsies.
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