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What's here, what's coming

CNET and VICE's Motherboard team up to tour the future

CNET and VICE's Motherboard team up to tour the future

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Viruses are the antibiotics of the future

Viruses are the antibiotics of the future

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These roboticists want to take over the world with a pair of legs

These roboticists want to take over the world with a pair of legs

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Ignored by big telecom, Detroit's marginalized communities are building their own internet

Ignored by big telecom, Detroit's marginalized communities are building their own internet

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How we'll solve our plastic problem

How we'll solve our plastic problem

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Meet the DIY mechanics retrofitting classic cars with electric motors

Meet the DIY mechanics retrofitting classic cars with electric motors

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Theoretical physicists get closer to explaining how NASA’s ‘impossible’ EmDrive works

Theoretical physicists get closer to explaining how NASA’s ‘impossible’ EmDrive works

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We were promised fusion

We were promised fusion

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Deep inside a gold mine with the researcher who found the 'Devil Worm'

Deep inside a gold mine with the researcher who found the 'Devil Worm'

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When going to space becomes your normal commute

When going to space becomes your normal commute

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This farm has no farmers

This farm has no farmers

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An artist is launching a 100-foot satellite that will be visible to the naked eye

An artist is launching a 100-foot satellite that will be visible to the naked eye

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A 'geoengineering cocktail' is the latest last-ditch proposal to reverse climate change

A 'geoengineering cocktail' is the latest last-ditch proposal to reverse climate change

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We should upload human minds on Stephen Hawking's interstellar mission

We should upload human minds on Stephen Hawking's interstellar mission

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New chatbots will help people accept death

New chatbots will help people accept death

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The dawn of a 'transgenic wilderness' is upon us

The dawn of a 'transgenic wilderness' is upon us

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How we'll save encryption from the crypto-apocalypse

How we'll save encryption from the crypto-apocalypse

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Asteroid mining is our best hope for colonizing Mars

Asteroid mining is our best hope for colonizing Mars

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Next year, scientists will send messages to search for aliens

Next year, scientists will send messages to search for aliens

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‘Placenta-on-a-chip’ technology will let scientists research neonatal diseases

‘Placenta-on-a-chip’ technology will let scientists research neonatal diseases

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