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Tesla is just months from a total collapse, says hedge-fund manager

Uber Disabled Volvo SUV’s Safety System Before Fatality

Uber Technologies Inc. disabled the standard collision-avoidance technology in the Volvo SUV that struck and killed a woman in Arizona last week, according to the auto-parts maker that supplied the vehicle’s radar and camera.

Origami-Folded Hydrogel Paper Instantly Generates 110 Volts of Electricity

Rows of small hydrogel dots are packed with positively and negatively charged ions that combine together to mimic an electric eel’s cellular structure. Printing and stacking these hydrogels produces the highest amount of voltage, while a connection to a larger contact area produces the highest current. Scientists are hoping that this system could potentially lead to a device that generates power from inside of the human body.

Chemotherapy-free ‘cancer vaccine’ moves from mice to human trials at Stanford

The Department of Energy Figured Out How to 3D Print Structures Made of Water

Lax regulation made it cheaper for China to outsource pork production to the US

Lockheed Martin Patent for Its Fusion Reactor the Size of a Shipping Container

Berkeley Lab Scientists Print All-Liquid 3-D Structures

Scientists from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a way to print 3-D structures composed entirely of liquids. Using a modified 3-D printer, they injected threads of water into silicone oil — sculpting tubes made of one liquid within another liquid.

Arizona Government Suspends Uber’s Self Driving Cars from Roads

The move by the Republican governor marks a major step back from his embrace of self-driving vehicles. He previously welcomed Uber and other autonomous vehicle companies to use Arizona as a place for testing under few, if any, regulations. In early March, he authorized self-driving vehicle companies to run tests without a person in the car to act as a safety operator.

Newly-discovered human organ may help explain how cancer spreads

This discovery was made by chance, from routine endoscopies – a procedure that involves inserting a thin camera into a person’s gastrointestinal tract. Newer approaches enable doctors to use this procedure to get a microscopic look at the tissue inside a person’s gut at the same time, with some surprising results.