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It’s offering 80 minutes alone with a robotic sex doll.

Some say the proliferation of sex robots could lead to less demand for prostitution, but not all agree.

The option is limited to businesses, but it’s another step toward US legitimacy for cryptocurrency.

A strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake hit Iran’s western province of Kermanshah late Sunday, Iran’s institute of geophysics said.

Few medical devices hold as much potential for explosive growth as spinal-cord stimulators, especially in the United States, where they are being pushed as the answer to the country’s opioid epidemic.

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The global market for spinal-cord stimulators has grown from $300 million in 2001 to nearly $2 billion in 2017, according to an estimate by Nevro, a Redwood City, California, company that manufactures the devices.

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Happy anniversary, ISS.

In animal models, the nanobots caused damage to the tissue of the tumor within 24 hours of treatment.

Stephen Baxter collaborates with i4is on AI for interstellar travel — Andreas Hein and Stephen Baxter explore the potential of artificial intelligence for interstellar exploration and colonization in a brand-new arXiv preprint (Image: Adrian Mann)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.06526

For the research, scientists had to work with single protons.

Gene editing may be able to do what medications can’t.