Would you wear this ‘shoe-like vessel’ made from genetically engineered bacteria?
Transitioning towards sustainable clothing practices is a must for combating climate change, so researchers are turning to bacteria for their…
Autonomous robots help farmers prepare for world’s largest tulip bloom
Starting in early March, dozens of large, futuristic-looking white machines started slowly trolling through farmland in The Netherlands. At first…
Vernor Vinge, influential sci-fi author who warned of AI ‘Singularity,’ has died
Vernor Vinge, prolific science-fiction writer, professor, and one of the first prominent thinkers to conceptualize the concepts of a “Technological…
AI-generated nonsense is leaking into scientific journals
In February, an absurd, AI-generated rat penis somehow snuck its way into a since retracted Frontiers in Cell and Developmental…
A cargo ship’s ‘WindWing’ sails saved it up to 12 tons of fuel per day
A shipping vessel left China for Brazil while sporting some new improvements last August—a pair of 123-feet-tall, solid “wings” retrofitted…
Researchers propose fourth traffic signal light for hypothetical self-driving car future
Fully self-driving cars, despite the claims of some companies, aren’t exactly ready to hit the roads anytime soon. There’s even…
Huge 60-foot-tall buoy uses ocean waves to create clean energy
Giant buoys over 60-feet tall may one day generate clean energy to feed into local power grids—but making it a…
TSA is testing a self-screening security checkpoint in Vegas
The Transportation Security Administration is launching the pilot phase of an autonomous self-screening checkpoint system. Unveiled earlier this week and…
A new AI-powered satellite will create Google Maps for methane pollution
Methane emissions, be it from industrial cattle farming or fossil fuel extraction, are responsible for roughly 30 percent of the…
Huge underwater ‘kite’ turbine powered 1,000 homes in the Faroe Islands
It’s been over a decade since PopSci last checked in on Minesto’s underwater “kite” turbine technology. Since then, the Swedish…