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While Nevada wants to make self-driving cars identifiable to human drivers, the truth is that smart cars have more to be worried about by putting themselves on the road with us.
That's the bold prediction of Kristian Hammond, an executive at Narrative Science, a company that translates data into natural language. He predicts a robot will win the Pulitzer in five years.
Despite predictions to the contrary, Intel has developed a new computer chip which fits more transistors into a smaller space. Computer power is still looking set to increase into the future.
While scientists jump to answer this notoriously difficult question, scientific observation is not well suited to finding the cosmic will that the question implies. This stumper is better left alone.
While talk of mining near-Earth asteroids has concentrated on metals like gold and platinum, the real treasure may be mining water and using its hydrogen to propel ambitious space missions.
Throughout the history of our solar system, the sun's proximity to exploding supernovae has had an important influence on the development of life on Earth, says a new study out of Denmark.
The private space company Sierra Nevada has designed a spacecraft to take the place of NASA's recently retired shuttles, carrying astronauts to the ISS with greater efficiency.