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It turns out that feral hogs release huge amounts of carbon dioxide by diggig up soil as they invade and wreak havoc in new areas.

Feral Hogs Are Contributing Hugely to Climate Change, Experts Say

By Dan Robitzski

Warehouse robots in London started a fire and disrupted thousands of grocery orders when they crashed into each other on the job.

Worker Robots Start Fire in Warehouse

By Dan Robitzski

Amateur astronomer Kai Ly pored over years of data to find and confirm a previously-undiscovered moon that's orbiting around Jupiter.

Jupiter Officially Has Yet Another Moon

By Dan Robitzski

The extreme heat in Oregon and California is so bad that baby birds are trying to escape and plumetting from their nests before they can fly.

Baby Birds Are Leaping From Their Nests and Dying Because of Extreme Heat

By Dan Robitzski

The Indian state Uttar Pradesh just implemented new population control policies that include cash incentives for voluntary sterilization.

To Fight Overpopulation, India May Pay People to Get Sterilized

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists were able to lump every kind of cancer out there into two categories based on whether they express a single protein.

Doctors Say They Found a Protein Linking All Cancers

By Dan Robitzski

A new neural implant was able to decode a paralyzed man's thoughts and turn them into words written on a screen, granting him the ability to communicate.

Neuroscience and Brain

Brain-Reading Tech Turned a Paralyzed Man’s Thoughts Into Words

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists built a nanobot swarm that can read and transmit your brain activity, allowing them to wirelessly diagnose disease or analyze neural signals.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Create Injectable Swarm of Brain Reading Nanosensors

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX constructed a Starship launch tower before completing an environemtnal assessment, so the Federal Aviation Administration might say to take it down.

The FAA May Force SpaceX to Tear Down Its Starship Launch Tower

By Dan Robitzski

In order to meet the industry's incredible energy demands, crypto miners are buying and setting up shop inside existing power plants.

Crypto Miners Are Buying Up Entire Power Plants

By Dan Robitzski

Video shows a U-Haul full of fireworks catching fire and detonating everything at once during a block party in Toledo, Ohio.

Science & Energy

Watch a U-Haul Full of Fireworks Explode Spectacularly

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's Lucy spacecraft was just outfitted with a message for any future civilizations that happen to discover it in the distant future.

New NASA Spacecraft Will Carry Time Capsule for the Descendants of Humans

By Dan Robitzski

The Marines recently tested a small drone that can carry a live grenade across a battlefield, targeting and detonating precise targets.

Marines Are Testing Tiny Drones That Carry Explosive Grenades

By Dan Robitzski

A massive lawsuit alleges that the extensive use of the pesticide chlrpyrifos caused neurological damage in developing embryos and young children.

Lawsuit Claims That Common Pesticide Causes Brain Damage in Children

By Dan Robitzski

In algorithmic moderation gone awry, Tik Tok users found themselves unable to post phrases like "Black lives matter" or "supporting black success."

Artificial Intelligence

TikTok Censored the Words “Black Lives Matter” But Not “White Supremacy”

By Dan Robitzski

NASA engineers are already dreaming up bigger and better ideas for Mars helicopters based on the surprising success of Ingenuity.

NASA Is Already Working on a Bigger, Better Mars Helicopter

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla and the electric scooter company Revel planned to launch a fleet of taxis in New York City, but regulators shot the plan down.

NYC Just Shut Down a Tesla Taxi Fleet

By Dan Robitzski

Israel is giving some citizens with weak immune systems a third Pfizer vaccine, making them the first COVID booster shots anywhere in the world.

Israel Begins Administering World’s First COVID Booster Shots

By Dan Robitzski

A WHO advisory committee recommended against letting researchers gene-hack superhumans or other augmentative edits, urging an emphasis on medicine instead.

WHO Says Gene-Hacking Superhumans Should Be Illegal

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists say we could deflect a killer asteroid by bombarding it with telecom satellites that are already in orbit instead of bombs.

Scientists: We Could Smash Existing Satellites Into a Killer Asteroid to Knock It Off Course

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla is rolling out the "Full Self-Driving" v9 beta update. Elon Musk is warning drivers not to put too much faith in it and to "be paranoid."

Self-Driving Vehicles

Elon Musk Warns Drivers Not To Trust New “Full Self-Driving” Update

By Dan Robitzski

A newly declassified military program shows that China developed autonomous killer submarines in the 1990s and successfully tested them over ten years ago.

China Secretly Developed Autonomous Killer Robot Submarines

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk once again criticized Bitcoin, arguing that the underlying technology of Dogecoin is better suited for scalability.

Science & Energy

Elon Musk Slams Bitcoin’s Underlying Technology

By Dan Robitzski

A massive study found an alarming correlation between heavy cannabis use and suicidal thoughts or actions among teens and young adults.

Health & Medicine

Cannabis Use Linked to Suicide Attempts in Young Adults

By Dan Robitzski

Hunter Kowald, inventor of a real-life hoverboard called the SkySurfer, rejects the obvious comparison to the Green Goblin.

Advanced Transport

Guy Who Built “Green Goblin” Hoverboard Says He’s Not a Supervillain

By Dan Robitzski

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US Military Document Admits That Risk of Nuclear War Is Growing

By Dan Robitzski

The startup Halo wants to use driverless, remote-controlled cars to make renting a car less of a headache and pave the road for autonomous vehicles.

Advanced Transport

Driverless Car Startup Actually Uses Remote Controls

By Dan Robitzski

As the death toll from last week's heatwave continues to climb, officials in Oregon have officially designated it a "mass casualty event."

Officials Declare Deadly Heatwave as “Mass Casualty Event”

By Dan Robitzski

The Teletubbies are supposedly vaccinated against the coronavirus, but something is a little bit off about their paperwork.

There’s Something Fishy About the Teletubbies’ Vaccination Cards

By Dan Robitzski

The scientists and entrepreneurs who helped pioneer and popularize carbon capture technology now say it probably can't save us from climate change.

Carbon Capture Pioneers Say Carbon Capture Tech Won’t Save Us

By Dan Robitzski

A growing chunk of the planet has been reaching temperatures and humidities high enough to kill people who are otherwise perfectly healthy.

Places Are Increasingly Getting So Hot That People Just Die

By Dan Robitzski

A massive study identified a long list of medical conditions that appear to be linked to cases of adult ADHD, and experts say it may help reshape treatment.

Adult ADHD Is Linked to a Ton of Serious Diseases

By Dan Robitzski

Clay samples from Mars suggest that the Red Planet once experienced a long-lasting era of temperate, habitable conditions.

Science & Energy

Clay Dug Up by NASA Mars Rover Makes It Seem Like Red Planet Could’ve Supported Life

By Dan Robitzski

In a world saturated with Amazon's Alexa, bullied kids have actually had to change their names in hopes of a fresh start.

Teenager Named Alexa Legally Changes Name Because of Amazon Product

By Dan Robitzski

Surges in alcohol consumption during the early pandemic seem to be growing rather than easing up, raising questions about what habits will persist on.

American Alcoholism Is Getting Worse

By Dan Robitzski

The FDA approved a new weight loss drug called semaglutide that doctors say could be a valuable tool in new obesity treatments.

RX and Medicine

Doctors Are Really Psyched About This New Weight Loss Drug

By Dan Robitzski

After once again delaying the launch of the next Tesla Full Self-Driving beta, Elon Musk said he was surprised by how hard making autonomous cars can be.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Elon Musk Says He’s Surprised to Discover That Self-Driving Cars Are Difficult

By Dan Robitzski

Iceland experimented with a four-day work week that made workers across a variety of industries both happier and more productive.

Iceland’s Four-Day Week Trial Made Workers Happier and More Productive

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found an entire population of free-floating exoplanets toward the center of our galaxy by spotting tiny microlensing events at nearby stars.

Science & Energy

Scientists Spot Earth-Like Planets Floating Around Without Stars

By Dan Robitzski

Hunter Kowald shares what it's like to design, build, and test a hoverboard before his stunt where he flew it through Times Square.

We Talked to the Guy Who Flies Around on a Giant Drone That He Built Himself

By Dan Robitzski

Police in India broke up an elaborate ring of scammers who injected thousands with saline water instead of the coronavirus vaccine.

Scammers Inject Thousands of People With Fake Vaccines

By Dan Robitzski

The BBC released then promptly edited a climate change for kids that listed a bunch of "positive impacts" that it would have on the UK and the world.

BBC Mocked For Teaching Kids Climate Change Will Have Nice Upsides

By Dan Robitzski

Porsche has finally issued a recall and update to fix a battery problem that made its electric car, the Taycan, suddenly die in the street.

Advanced Transport

Porsche’s Electric Car Keeps Suddenly Dying in the Street

By Dan Robitzski

Richard Branson just announced that he's going to travel to space on a Virgin Galactic rocket, beating Jeff Bezos to space by nine days.

Mischievous Richard Branson Slams Accelerator, Will Go to Space 9 Days Before Jeff Bezos

By Dan Robitzski

A huge chunk of the United States is primed for a horrific wildfire. Backyard fireworks displays are definitely not worth the risk.

Science & Energy

We Are Literally Begging You Idiots To Skip The Fireworks This Year

By Dan Robitzski

A prominent lobbyist for ExxonMobil admitted that the company actively fights climate science and climate change legislation in secret.

In Secret Recording, ExxonMobil Lobbyist Brags About Only Pretending to Care About Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

The military announced plans to performance test a new anti-aging pill that it developed to keep soldiers healthy and operating at peak performance.

The US Military Will Test an Anti-Aging Pill Next Year

By Dan Robitzski

NASA chief Bill Nelson instructed agency scientists to start studying UFOs, but they can't do that unless the military releases its raw data.

Science & Energy

Astrobiologist Demands Pentagon Release Raw UFO Data

By Dan Robitzski

As the heatwave continues, hundreds of heat-related deaths have been reported in Canada and some US states, presenting a dire warning for climate change.

The Climate Change-Linked Heatwave Has Now Killed Hundreds of People

By Dan Robitzski

Uber drivers report that the company was charging rather than paying them for some trips, causing some to quit the platform altogether.

Advanced Transport

Uber Glitch Makes Drivers Pay for Their own Rides

By Dan Robitzski

A Transformer-like car that can switch back and forth into a personal airplane just completed a brief test flight in Slovakia.

Advanced Transport

Car With Pop-Out Wings Aces Test Flight

By Dan Robitzski

New York City really messed up its first attempt at ranked-choice voting when the Board of Elections erroneously counted 135,000 extra votes.

New York City Absolutely Botched Its Futuristic Voting System

By Dan Robitzski

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb suggests in a new op-ed that 'Oumuamua, UAP sightings, and alien scientists could all be connected.

Harvard Professor Says Alien Spacecraft May Have Dropped Sensors

By Dan Robitzski

A comet that flew past Earth in late 2018 was releasing a shockingly high amount of alcohol in its wake, according to a new study.

Science & Energy

Comet Sails Past Earth, Leaving Trail of Alcohol in Its Wake

By Dan Robitzski

As the record-shattering heatwave continues, officials report dozens of sudden, heat-related deaths in Canada and the northwestern United States/

Horrific Heatwave Kills Dozens

By Dan Robitzski

A new startup called Worldcoin plans to offer a crypto of the same name to everyone on Earth in exchange for scanning their eyeballs.

This Startup Is Paying People to Scan Their Eyeballs

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientsits used a nearby galaxy cluster as a magnifying lens that allowed them to study a much more distant galaxy in ten times the detail.

Science & Energy

Scientists Turn Galaxy Cluster Into Giant Magnifying Lens To Study Even Farther Galaxies

By Dan Robitzski

The tragic collapse of a Miami condo building that killed at least a dozen people seems to have been caused, at least in part, by worsening climate change.

Deadly Condo Collapse Linked to Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson says that the government doesn't know what's behind the recent UAP sightings, but he does believe aliens are out there.

Science & Energy

The Head of NASA Says He Believes in Aliens

By Dan Robitzski

A man was charged with rape after uploading his genetic code to a genaelogy site, giving police the DNA match they needed for a case from 2007.

Man Charged With Rape After Uploading His DNA to Ancestry Site

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell says the company hopes to launch its first orbital Starship flight some time in July, but several challenges remain.

SpaceX President Says Orbital Starship Launch Is “Shooting for July”

By Dan Robitzski

The heat wave is shattering temperature records in Canada and the northwest United States, where temperatures are typically 40 degrees lower in late June.

This Heat Wave Is Smashing All-Time Records in the US and Canada

By Dan Robitzski

A new mod for "The Witcher 3" uses AI to churn out new lines in an actor's voice, raising serious questions about how automation will impact artists.

Artificial Intelligence

Video Game Voice Actors Alarmed by New AI Voice Technology

By Dan Robitzski

Canadian astronaut and former space station commander Chris Hadfield urges NASA and other space agencies to partner rather than compete with China.

Former Astronaut Calls for NASA Collaboration With China

By Dan Robitzski

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