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NASA Administrator Bill Nelson once again confirmed that Jeff Bezos' lawsuit will definitely delay the Artemis Moon missions and landing.

Head of NASA: Jeff Bezos’ Lawsuit Likely to Delay Human Moon Landing

By Dan Robitzski

Retired astronaut Bill Shepherd warns Congress that NASA should thoroughly investigate damage on the International Space Station before securing more funds.

Astronaut Who Helped Build Space Station Says Damage Is “Serious”

By Dan Robitzski

A new app called Phobys uses augmented reality to surround arachnophobic people with spiders as a form of virtual exposure therapy.

Health & Medicine

Scientists Use AR to Make Arachnophobes See Huge Spiders

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's InSight Mars lander recently discovered three unusually powerful marsquakes — a monumental discovery after surviving a perilous winter.

NASA Lander Is off Life Support and Back To Work

By Dan Robitzski

A glitch on the prominent crypto data platform Pyth showed Bitcoin prices plummet down to just over $5,400 on Monday, but the drop never happened.

Science & Energy

Wall Street Glitch Showed Bitcoin Crashing to $5,400

By Dan Robitzski

As ice melts, the Earth's crust expands upward and outward in deformations that can span hundreds of miles and last thousands of years.

Harvard Study: Melting Polar Ice Is Physically Warping the Planet

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered that a protein called sonic hedgehog seems to play a huge role in Parkinson's, potentially revealing new treatment opportunities.

Brain Protein Named After Sonic the Hedgehog May Be Key to Treating Parkinson’s

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists identified alarming parallels between the conditions that led to a horrific mass extinction event and the impacts of modern-day climate change.

Scientists Alarmed by Telltale Sign of Global Mass Extinction

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists 3D printed living, functional brain cells that they say could be more useful than animals in preclinical research.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists 3D Print Living Brain Cells

By Dan Robitzski

In an unusual yet poetic essay, New York Times reporter Dennis Overbye compared astronauts to a genus of dung-eating fungus.

New York Times Compares Astronauts to Dung-Eating Fungus

By Dan Robitzski

Hackers launched a ransomware attack on a major farming services company, and the subsequent standoff could cause food shortages.

Science & Energy

Cyberattack on Farming Group Could Lead to Food Shortages

By Dan Robitzski

The International Space Station is near the end of its life. When it's gone, NASA plans to rent rather than build its replacement.

NASA Is Trying to Rent a Private Space Station

By Dan Robitzski

The island of La Palma's long-dormant volcano Cumbre Vieja erupted in a powerful explosion that's still threatening local communities.

Science & Energy

Volcano Flings Lava Nearly a Mile High, Swallows Houses Whole

By Dan Robitzski

Bees killed 63 endangered South African penguins last week in what a conservationist is calling a "dramatic" loss for the species.

Science & Energy

63 Endangered Penguins Die After Being Attacked by Enraged Bees

By Dan Robitzski

International Space Station crewmembers are repairing equipment using instructions on an AR headset so they can be more autonomous during distant missions.

Astronauts Use Augmented Reality to Repair Space Station Equipment

By Dan Robitzski

Max Hodak, the former president of Neuralink who recently started a new neurotech company, says that furries are frequently reaching out.

Brain Implant Entrepreneur Says His Inbox Is Filled With Furries

By Dan Robitzski

A new mouse study seems to have determined how beta-amyloid, a toxic compound linked to Alzheimer's disease, starts to accumulate in the brain.

Scientists May Have Discovered the Cause of Alzheimer’s Disease

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk took a jab at Joe Biden because the President hasn't yet congratulated him or SpaceX for the recent Inspiration4 mission.

Elon Musk Mocks Joe Biden for Not Congratulating SpaceX Fast Enough

By Dan Robitzski

An experimental neural implant seems to restore both muscular control over and sensation in people's limbs, even when a spinal cord injury is in the way.

Neuroscience and Brain

Tiny Neural Implant Could Give Spinal Injury Patients Control Over Their Own Limbs Again

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's Mars rover Perseverance finally managed to scoop up and study rock samples after a series of baffling failures and mishaps.

It Worked! NASA’s Mars Rover Definitely Scooped up Rock Samples This Time

By Dan Robitzski

The upcoming all-civilian SpaceX mission Inspiration4 will bring dozens of NFTs into space for charity, including an unreleased Kings of Leon recording.

SpaceX Tourist Spacecraft Will Be Loaded With Dozens of NFTs

By Dan Robitzski

Journals retracted two papers that they say failed to meet ethical standards because they were based on blood samples taken from China's Uyghur population.

Genetics Papers Retracted Over Human Experimentation Scandal

By Dan Robitzski

Snakes equipped with GPS trackers and dosimeters are monitoring radioactivity levels near the Fukushima nuclear disaster site.

Scientists Monitoring Radioactive Snakes Near Fukushima Meltdown Site

By Dan Robitzski

El Salvador is now the first country to accept Bitcoin as legal tender, and Edward Snowden predicts that many more will soon follow.

Edward Snowden Predicts Massive Bitcoin Adoption by Governments

By Dan Robitzski

iRobot, the makers of the Roomba robot vacuum, specifically trained the new model's AI to avoid running over dop poop and smearing it everywhere.

New Roomba Boasts Dog Poop-Avoiding AI

By Dan Robitzski

A man's nose ran for nine months before he realized he was leaking brain fluid after a particularly aggressive nasal swab COVID test.

COVID Test Made Man’s Head Leak Cerebrospinal Fluid for Nine Months

By Dan Robitzski

A ship called the Coral Crystal temporarily blocked the Suez Canal again, forcing authorities to reroute the ships behind it while they got it unstuck.

Advanced Transport

Oh Great, Another Giant Ship Blocked the Suez Canal

By Dan Robitzski

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus extended the booster shot moratorium and called out rich countries for hoarding their COVID-19 vaccines.

WHO Chief “Appalled” By Rich Countries Hoarding COVID Vaccines

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists got an incredible look at Kleopatra, also known as the "dog bone asteroid," which is spinning so fast it might rip itself apart.

Science & Energy

Rapidly Spinning “Dog Bone” Asteroid Near Mars Could Break Itself Apart

By Dan Robitzski

The world's largest carbon capture facility, which can scrub 4,400 tons of carbon dioxide out of the air each year, just went online.

Scientists Fire Up World’s Biggest Carbon Capture Machine

By Dan Robitzski

NASA finally announced a launch date for the James Webb Space Telescope, the long-awaited orbital observatory meant to replace the aging Hubble.

Science & Energy

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Finally Has a Launch Date

By Dan Robitzski

MIT engineers managed to create an intensely powerful magnetic field in a very compact space, which they say is a huge step toward nuclear fusion energy.

MIT Announces “Major Advance” in Fusion Power

By Dan Robitzski

The water supply on the International Space Station is teeming with bacteria, so scietnists are trying to figure out what that means for astronaut health.

Study: Space Station Drinking Water Is Teeming With Bacteria

By Dan Robitzski

Fearing potential misuse, OpenAI cut off the customizeable chatbot Samantha, which had been used to emulate a dead fiancée, from its algorithm GPT-3.

OpenAI Shuts Down GPT-3 Bot Used To Emulate Dead Fiancée

By Dan Robitzski

A group of Bitcoin bros' plan to buy a cruise ship and turn it into a floating crypto utopia, fell apart during the boat's (empty) maiden voyage.

Bitcoin Dudes Buy Cruise Ship for Crypto Utopia, Immediately Bungle Everything

By Dan Robitzski

After a casualty on Sunday, officials in India are now scrambling to nip a new outbreak of the extremely-deadly Nipah virus in the bud.

Extremely Deadly Virus Spreading in India

By Dan Robitzski

The doctor at a county jail in Arkansas was giving inmates the dangerous drug ivermectin, an unproven COVID treatment, without their knowledge or consent.

Inmates Treated With Ivermectin Without Their Knowledge

By Dan Robitzski

China's Chang'e-5 orbiter, the spacecraft that helped ferry Moon rocks back to Earth last year before heading to deep space, just started a return journey.

Chinese Probe Returns to Moon From Deep Space, for Unknown Purpose

By Dan Robitzski

Astrobiologist Paul Davies warns that any alien world capable of supporting extraterrestrial life would probably be teeming with viruses as well.

Scientist Warns About Alien Viruses From Other Planets

By Dan Robitzski

Two autonomous police robots are roaming the streets of Singapore looking for signs of trouble during a brief trial period.

Singapore Deploys Multiple Robot Cops to Police Public Areas

By Dan Robitzski

A new molecule-sized "camera" helps scientists watch individual chemical reactions in real-time, and they say it could lead to better solar panels.

Scientists Build Molecule-Sized “Camera” To Watch Chemical Reactions in Real-Time

By Dan Robitzski

A team of physicists demonstrated that a nuclear fusion device called a stellerator could manage heats up to twice the temperature of the Sun's core.

Scientists Thrilled at Important Step Toward Practical Nuclear Fusion

By Dan Robitzski

A pseudonymous hacker named MG is selling a USB cable that contains a tiny computer to capture and transmit every single key you type.

New USB Cable Contains Tiny Computer That Spies on Everything You Type

By Dan Robitzski

NASA says that its Perseverance rover has finally collected samples of Mars rocks, but the photo offered up as proof doesn't show too much.

NASA Claims Rover Collected Mars Rock, But We Wanna See Proof

By Dan Robitzski

A growing number of girls and young women are developing Tourette's-like tics just from watching videos of them on TikTok.

Doctors Say Social Media May Be Giving Young People Strange Tics

By Dan Robitzski

Climate change is here, and it's posing a very real threat. If you want proof, look no farther than Hurricane Ida's horrific destruction.

Last Night’s Hurricane Devastation Shows That Climate Change Is Here

By Dan Robitzski

Instead of taking extra years to develop and test a new rocket, China's space program may modify existing, flight-tested rockets for a crewed Moon mission.

Chinese Official Says Rocket For Human Moon Landing Already Built

By Dan Robitzski

Dmitry Rogozin, the head of the Russian space program who repeatedly threatened to abandon the International Space Station, now denies having done so.

Head of Russian Space Program Tells Absurd Lie About Abandoning ISS

By Dan Robitzski

Federal regulators investigating Tesla Autopilot's habit of ramming emergency vehicles gave the company an ultimatum: Share your data or pay a huge fine.

Feds Demand Data on Teslas Crashing Into Emergency Responders

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla seems to have bought itself a new Liebherr crawler crane for use in Texas, according to a picture of the machinery being shipped in Europe.

Huge SpaceX-Branded Tank Treads Spotted in Europe

By Dan Robitzski

A Russian official warned that much of the equipment in Russia's part of the International Space Station is expired, and "irreparable failures" may follow.

Russian Official: Space Station Damage May Be “Irreparable”

By Dan Robitzski

"Fboy Island" contestant and self-proclaimed crypto investor Garrett Morosky successfully conned one of the show's stars then tried to keep the money.

Crypto Investor Tricks Woman Into Falling in Love, Betrays Her for $100,000

By Dan Robitzski

"The Accident," a bizarre and likely ancient brown dwarf, hints at an entirely new class of celestial objects hiding in plain sight within the Milky Way.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Discover Extremely Strange Deep Space Object

By Dan Robitzski

Billionaire Jared Isaacman is bringing hops to space and hopes to auction them off to a brewery to raise money for charity.

Billionaire Buys SpaceX Ticket To Make “Space Beer” in Absurd PR Stunt

By Dan Robitzski

New research demonstrates a way to trick an older person's immune system into becoming as robust and active as it was in their youth.

Doctors Claim to Have Discovered How to Reverse Cell Aging

By Dan Robitzski

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A Single Alcoholic Drink Immediately Increases Risk of Heart Dysfunction

By Dan Robitzski

The Airlander 10, a gigantic airship that looks an awful lot like a butt, could start ferrying passengers to and from the North Pole soon.

Advanced Transport

World’s Largest Aircraft Mocked for Looking Like Giant Butt

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists determined that a high percentage of stars consume what could have been habitable exoplanets, and they figured out how to tell if it happened.

Science & Energy

Ravenous Stars Keep Devouring Habitable Planets

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's SLS rocket and Orion are still undergoing tests that were supposed to finish earlier this Summer. Now the agency is blaming the pandemic.

NASA Source: No Way Artemis Moon Mission Is Launching This Year

By Dan Robitzski

A huge "blob" of warm water in the Pacific Ocean has been made worse by climate change and led to a ten-year drought in Chile.

Scientist Warns of Megadroughts That Could Collapse Entire Civilizations

By Dan Robitzski

Federal scientists are tracking down and investigating nuclear cubes that Nazi scientists hoped to turn into bombs to test out new forensic techniques.

Science & Energy

Scientists Searching for Lost Nuclear Nazi Cubes

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon-owned satellite company Kuiper Systems filed a complaint about SpaceX's plans for Starlink, and Elon Musk called Jeff Bezos out for being a troll.

Elon Musk: Jeff Bezos Retired for “Full-time Job Filing Lawsuits Against SpaceX”

By Dan Robitzski

the laboratory services company hVivo has now grown enough of the delta variant of the coronavirus to start infecting human volunteers in a challenge trial.

Researchers Are About to Infect Humans With Home-Grown COVID Strain

By Dan Robitzski

A self-driving bus crashed into a visually-impaired paralympian at the athlete's village in Tokyo, but it may not have been the autonomous vehicle's fault.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Self-Driving Bus Hits Pedestrian at Tokyo Olympic Village

By Dan Robitzski

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