(Natural News) The world was forever changed in 1986 when a nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl power plant caught fire and exploded. The explosion shot radioactive material into the environment, making the area uninhabitable for humans. Approximately 116,000 people from the former Soviet Union town of Pripyat were evacuated. Small villages were left behind as […]

(Natural News) Are we living in a simulation? According to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor and computer scientist Rizwan Virk, it’s very likely. Virk’s ideas develop upon those first theorized by Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom known as the simulation hypothesis. In this, he outlines three possibilities: That humanity, like many other human-like civilizations before it, […]

(Natural News) This one’s for sci-fi lovers: A team of machine learning researchers from KU Leuven in Belgium found a simple hack to trick surveillance systems into thinking that a person is invisible. In their paper, which they presented in this year’s Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, the team revealed how wearing a colorful printed […]

(Natural News) Additive manufacturing systems have come one step closer to printing out whole, working organs for emergency medical transplants. Researchers reported 3D printing a complete system of blood vessels found on a major organ. Every day, around 20 patients who desperately need an organ transplant die before ever getting one. There are not enough […]

(Natural News) If you’re tired of having to brush your teeth, tire no more: A team of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania teamed up to create an army of teeth-cleaning micro-robots. Robotics and A.I. are completely transforming the healthcare landscape — spanning from dental care to cancer-killing nanobots. Engineers, dentists and biologists worked together on […]

(Natural News) Experts know that a strange species of bacteria found in oxygen-deprived sediment and soil can generate electricity. But they only recently learned that the microorganism achieves this through a method that differs from that used by other electric bacteria. Called Geobacter sulfurreducens, the anaerobic bacteria possess a unique biological structure. This previously unidentified feature makes […]

(Natural News) The chief of NASA has warned that the threat of an asteroid impact is all too real. During a conference on the matter of planetary defense, he called for funding and working plans to stop killer asteroids from hitting the U.S. and the rest of Earth. Jim Bridenstine was one of the speakers […]

(Natural News) Advances in robotics mean that robots can now make quick work of many of the tasks that humans have struggled with, but that doesn’t mean that everyone is embracing these machines. In fact, many robot makers have given their creations some very human-like traits in an effort to make them more widely accepted. […]

(Natural News) Carbon Engineering, a company owned by Bill Gates and backed by Big Oil, wants to tackle climate change by pulling carbon dioxide right out of the air and using it to manufacture gasoline. Big Oil’s most fervent pipe dream is undoubtedly turning gasoline into a renewable  (but expensive) resource — but there are […]

(Natural News) A team of scientists from Princeton University have developed a new code that gives artificial intelligence the capability of developing virtually limitless nuclear fusion energy. The new code, the Fusion Recurrent Neural Network (FRNN), applies deep learning to a pair of comprehensive databases at the world’s largest nuclear energy facilities. These facilities contain […]