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With no human driver this huge dump truck has no cab and never turns around Autonomous vehicle technology is still in its infancy, which means…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Who needs to buy real flowers any longer when plastic ones are good enough?   Tick tock. Shape-shifting objects can…

Cities might have a monopoly on driverless cars but Amsterdam has driverless ships The idea of self-driving cars cruising our roads may not be a…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Botnets are exploiting security vulnerabilities in the Internet of Everything devices to launch the world’s largest DDoS attacks   Hot…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The only humans these Lettuces see will be the one who eats them.   The Japanese lettuce production company Spread believes…

Proven in the labs Texas-PEG has already restored motor function in injured lab rats it isn’t the first time that we’re read about new breakthroughs…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Being able to observe the interactions of individual atoms will one day lead to the creation of better superconductors.  …

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF One day researchers hope they can do the same in Humans.   In a world first, scientists led by Kamel…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The world’s first robot assisted eye surgery paves the way for surgeries that were previously impossible.   British surgeons have…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Scientists have found a new chemical that could help drug addicts forget they were ever addicted.   In the cult-classic “Eternal…

China recently launched the world’s first quantum satellite, heralding in a new era of ultra-secure communications “The satellite is designed to establish ultra-secure quantum communications…