Dan Robitzki is a senior reporter for Futurism, where he likes to cover AI, tech ethics, and medicine. He spends his extra time fencing and streaming games from Los Angeles, California.

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The ESA plans to launch a trio of space probes — a "mothership" and two interceptors — that will wait up in space for comets to pass nearby.

Mothership Spotted

The interceptor spacecraft will be waiting in space until a target is spotted.

ESA Announces "Mothership" Mission to Intercept Comets

A second look at data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveals that the oceans of Saturns' moon, Eneceladus, could harbor ideal conditions for microbial life.

Lunch Buffet

If life happens to exist there, it would have plenty to eat.

Saturn's Moon Enceladus Has Nutrient-Rich Oceans

Scientists developed an AI "vaccine" that can make algorithms more resistant to hackers who launch adversarial attacks to try and confuse the systems.

Vaccines Are Important

Algorithms trained on weak, simulated adversaries can better fight the real thing.

An AI "Vaccine" Can Block Adversarial Attacks

Hackers hijacked critical computer networks in Riviera Beach, Florida. Without another option, the city paid a $600,000 ransom in Bitcoin.

The Big One

Riviera Beach's City Council decided it had no other choice.

Florida City Pays Hackers $600,000 to Restore Hijacked Network

The Indian government just announced a new research agency that will develop new space weapons for any future off-world warfare.

Big Stick

The country wants to be ready for space-based warfare.

India Just Announced That It's Developing Space Weapons

An engineer found a way to turn juiced cactus leaves into a feasible substitute for plastic, and she wants to make biodegradable cutlery.

Cleaner Option

The eco-friendly material could replace single-use food packaging.

Scientists Make Fake, Biodegradable Plastic From Cactus Juice

A newly-discovered exoplanet called Teegarden b is more similar to Earth than any other world scientists have spotted so far.

Hello There

Another Earth?

Scientists Find the Most Earth-Like Exoplanet Ever — and It's Nearby

A new report fings that NASA has been downplaying the expected costs of its missions while rewarding contractors despite preventable delays

All For One

And despite delays, NASA keeps giving Boeing millions.

Gov. Watchdog: NASA Hid True Cost of Boeing Moon Rocket

Blood Juice

And it looks creepy as hell.

Robot Fish Can Swim For 37 Hours With Blood-Powered Batteries

Russian scientists want to study reproduction and fertility in space, but cosmonauts are refusing to provide some crucial biological samples.

Lending a Hand

I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.

Cosmonauts Refuse to Provide Semen Samples in Space

A new system could enable smart speakers to listen in for signs of a heart attack and immediately call for medical assistance.

Listening In

It could call 911 during the crucial first moments of a heart attack.

Future Smart Speakers Could Call 911 if They Hear a Heart Attack

Earlier this month, researchers from Australia's Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration published research containing a dire warning: prevent and reverse climate change or face the end of human civilization as we know it.

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