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Starship Enterprise (NBC)

Warp travel or SkyNet uprising?

Andrew Leigh, Joshua Gans
FILE - In this file photo taken July 16, 2014, Christian Oggenfuss stands near solar panels on top of the living roof at the Odette Estate winery in Napa, Calif. A new estimate from the U.S. government shows that California met about half of the state's electricity demand for three hours on March 11, 2017--the state's goal is for 50 percent of all electricity to come from renewable sources by 2030. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File) (AP)

Sun sets on US green economy leadership

Lucien Georgeson, Mark Maslin - The Conversation
The Impossible Whopper at Burger King (Getty/Michael Thomas)

Millennials embrace plant-based meat

Sheril Kirshenbaum, Douglas Buhler - The Conversation
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (Getty/Justin Sullivan)

Mark Zuckerberg defends false Trump ads

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
Prairie Strips on Larry and Margaret Stone’s farm near Traer, IA. Strips were frost seeded in January 2016 and this photo was taken in July 2017, showing the first year of growth. (Lynn Betts of the NRCS / SWCS)

Native prarie: secret weapon for farmers

Nathan Beacom - Civil Eats
This photo taken on April 17, 2019 shows the China-funded Lotus Tower in central Colombo. - Real estate projects around the city have been linked to China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a sweeping trillion-dollar infrastructure program across Asia, Africa and Europe that is viewed with deep suspicion by countries like India and the United States and has divided opinion within the EU. (Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP/Getty Images)

China's push for power

Amitrajeet A. Batabyal - The Conversation
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US census kickstarted computing industry

David Lindsay Roberts - The Conversation
This Feb. 27, 2018, photo shows a seven cubit quantum device is seen at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. Conventional computers process information as a stream of bits, each of which can be either a zero or a one in the binary language of computing. But quantum bits, known as qubits, can register zero and one simultaneously. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Quantum computing: Not if, but when

Prabir Purkayastha
(AP/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

How Google funds climate villains

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
This image provided by the Illustris Collaboration in May 2014 shows light distribution of a massive cluster in a simulation of the evolution of the universe since the Big Bang. (AP Photo/Illustris Collaboration) (AP)

Nobel Prize for Big Bang breakthroughs

Robert T. Fisher - The Conversation
Mark Zuckerberg (AP/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Facebook antitrust probe gains steam

Matthew Rozsa
(Tamara Pearson / Truthout)

Airbnb displacing Mexico City residents

Tamara Pearson - Truthout
(BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images)

AI machines struggle with common sense

Joey Velez-Ginorio - Massive Science
(Getty Images)

The science of serendipity

James Geary
(AP/Noah Berger)

Facebook breach: 50 million at risk

Rachel Leah
Employees wearing a Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble costume pose for a picture with a girl at Warner Bros. World, the first-ever Warner branded indoor theme park, in the UAE capital Abu Dhabi on July 27, 2018. (Getty/Giuseppe Cacace)

Climate change may send parks indoors

Rachel Leah
(AP/Lynne Sladky)

How to reduce drunk driving

Rachel Leah
(Getty/Salon)

South Africa's propaganda scandal

Koketso Moeti
(Melissa Holman/Getty)

Confronting a smoothie-making robot

Nicole Karlis
Bill Gates (Getty/Jack Taylor)

Bill Gates' weird Trump adventure

Rachel Leah
(AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

Techno-medicine

Brian Rinker - KFF Health News
(AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi, File)

It's about time!

Scott L. Montgomery - The Conversation
The Waymo driverless car. (AP/Eric Risberg)

Ethical challenges of self-driving cars

Johannes Himmelreich - The Conversation
The new Gemini smartphone from Planet Computers is updating the classic PDA design for the 21st century. (Pietro Cardoso)

Smartphones finally get smarter

Matthew Sheffield
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