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A government official in China said on Monday that the country was planning new punishments for local officials who don't meet air pollution goals. Chinese pollution

China Plans “Punishment” for Officials Who Miss Pollution Goals

By Jon Christian

Researchers have captured the best-ever image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

Here’s the Best-Ever Image of the Black Hole Devouring Our Galaxy

By Jon Christian

A growing group of people identify themselves as "digisexuals" — a provocative term for people who are attracted to robots and artificial intelligences.

“Digisexuals” Are Falling In Love With — And Lusting For — Robots

By Jon Christian

The consensus: it's not just Futurism readers who hate the idea of space billboards — scientists are worried about the concept as well.

Experts Respond to Orbiting Space Billboards: “Harmful”

By Jon Christian

A nearly billion-dollar debt is about to come due for Tesla. That's more bad news about a trying month for the futuristic automaker.

More Bad News: Tesla Is About to Owe $920 Million in Debt

By Jon Christian

Iconic Italian motorcycle manufacturer Ducati says that it's not only working on an electric motorcycle, but that the bike is close to production.

Advanced Transport

Ducati Is Working on a Futuristic Electric Motorcycle

By Jon Christian

The World Health Organization released its annual roundup of the gravest threats to global health — and one of them is anti-vaxxers.

Health & Medicine

WHO: Anti-Vaxxers Now One of the Greatest Threats to World Health

By Jon Christian

India is about to launch a basic income experiment that will provide cash payments to each of its 610,000 citizens — reportedly the largest in history.

Universal Basic Income

India Is Launching the Largest Basic Income Experiment in History

By Jon Christian

People across the world are brutally assaulting robots — a trend that could indicate a deep compulsion to lash out against automatons.

People Are Brutally Assaulting Robots. Experts Want to Know Why

By Jon Christian

Chin is facing a "precipitous" population decline that leaders fear could lead to economic catastrophe for the rising world power.

China Is Facing A “Precipitous” Population Decline

By Jon Christian

New documents show that the U.S. secretly funded research ranging from UFOs to a "warp drive," "extra dimensions," and "traversable wormholes."

The U.S. Secretly Funded Research on UFOs, Wormholes, and Warp Drives

By Jon Christian

Science journalists were obsessed with a seedling sprouted by China's Moon lander. The only problem: the Moon plant is already dead.

Bad News: That Moon Plant Everybody Was Talking About Is Dead

By Jon Christian

China announced Monday that the country's space program plans to launch three more lunar missions, with the eventual goal of an international Moon base.

China Announces Plans for Moon Base

By Jon Christian

Vast New Particle Accelerator Would Dwarf Large Hadron Collider

Vast New Particle Accelerator Would Dwarf Large Hadron Collider

By Jon Christian

The chair of Harvard University's Astronomy Department defended his controversial hypothesis that an interstellar object could be an alien probe.

Harvard Astronomer Defends Hypothesis That Object Is Alien Probe

By Jon Christian

In a new interview, a Harvard astronomer opens up about the hunt for alien life — and what first alien contact would mean for human civilization.

Harvard Astronomer Predicts What First Alien Contact Will Be Like

By Jon Christian

What happened next was weird, even by the standards of super-dense celestial objects from which not even light can escape: the black hole started to shrink.

A Black Hole Inhaled a Star. Then It Started to Shrink

By Jon Christian

Authorities in Denmark plan to build nine artificial islands off the coast of Copenhagen — a futuristic hub for sustainable business and commerce.

Science & Energy

Denmark Is Building Nine Gigantic Artificial Islands

By Jon Christian

A new research project aims to harness the power of the quantum computer to build a new type of neural network that "acts like a brain."

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Are Building a Quantum Computer That “Acts Like a Brain”

By Jon Christian

A new study in the journal Science has found that climate change is warming oceans far faster than experts had previously predicted.

Scientists: Warming Oceans Will Lead to “Catastrophic” Future

By Jon Christian

A collaboration between MIT and two energy companies is encouraging interdisciplinary research to fast-track the development of practical fusion power.

Science & Energy

MIT Is Pouring Resources Into Commercializing Fusion Power

By Jon Christian

The Pentagon's emerging technologies unit put out a call last week for proposals that use insect brains to control robots.

DARPA Wants to Build Conscious Robots Using Insect Brains

By Jon Christian

SpaceX said Friday that it plans to lay off 10 percent of its workforce — an eyebrow-raising move for a company emerging from a record-shattering year.

Surprise Announcement: SpaceX to Lay off 10 Percent of Workforce

By Jon Christian

Researchers from Princeton University and the Department of Energy say they've discovered a new way to stabilize super-heated plasma in fusion reactions.

Science & Energy

Scientists Discovered a New Way to Stabilize Fusion Reactions

By Jon Christian

A team of astronomers say they've discovered the brightest quasar ever observed in the early universe, which shines with the power of 600 trillion Suns.

Newly Spotted Quasar Is 600 Trillion Times Brighter Than the Sun

By Jon Christian

In about 10 billion years, our sun will likely harden into a giant crystal orb — a fate that will be shared with many other white dwarf stars.

Science & Energy

In About 10 Billion Years, Our Sun Will Harden Into a Giant Crystal

By Jon Christian

Russian startup StartRocket says it wants to display enormous billboard-style advertisements in the night sky using arrays of cubesats.

This Startup Wants to Launch Giant Glowing Ads Into the Night Sky

By Jon Christian

The Chinese moon rover could be scoping out whether the Moon could be a source for helium-3, a fuel that could make it a gateway to interplanetary missions.

The Chinese Moon Rover Could Be Scouting for Interplanetary Fuel

By Jon Christian

A former brigadier-general of the Canadian Armed Forces says that the country should start its own Space Force, similar to the one proposed in the U.S.

Former General: Canada Should Start Its Own Space Force

By Jon Christian

According to CNET, Tesla is testing cold weather electric vehicles at a "secure facility" about two hours from Fairbanks, Alaska.

Tesla Tests EVs in Freezing Cold at “Secure Facility” in Alaska

By Jon Christian

According to a new theory, the Big Bang also generated a second "anti-universe" that extended backwards in time, like a mirror image of our own.

New Theory: “Mirror Image” of Our Universe Existed Before Big Bang

By Jon Christian

Jellyfish have been around for a half billion years. Now, pollution and climate change are allowing them to take over and choke the oceans.

Jellyfish Thrive on Pollution and Climate Change. Now They’re Taking Over

By Jon Christian

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed on Twitter yesterday that the first test of the Starship could take place in as little as four weeks.

Elon Musk: First Starship Test Could Be in Four Weeks

By Jon Christian

A plastic part broke off the Ocean Cleanup Project's device, which was intended to capture ocean plastic. But the project's CEO remains undeterred.

Plastic Part Breaks Off Device Intended to Capture Ocean Plastic

By Jon Christian

An upcoming galactic collision could wake the Milky Way's black hole and fling our solar system into intergalactic space, according to new research.

Galactic Collision Could Fling Our Solar System Into Intergalactic Space

By Jon Christian

The discovery of a relationship between the dark matter in dwarf galaxies and their star formation could help us understand the mysterious material.

Science & Energy

New Finding Could Be “Smoking Gun” in Understanding Dark Matter

By Jon Christian

Fossil fuel may comprise a large part of the Texas economy, but new research shows that the state has the natural resources to ditch coal entirely.

New Research: Texas Could Ditch Coal Entirely for Wind and Solar

By Jon Christian

Researchers are gene-hacking plants to make them gigantic. The idea is that it could vastly increase food yields for farmers.

Science & Energy

Scientists Are Gene-Hacking Plants to Make Them Enormous

By Jon Christian

Tesla CEO Elon Musk doubled down on criticism of Singapore Thursday, saying that the island city-state has been "unwelcome" to his car manufacturer.

Elon Musk: Singapore Has Been “Unwelcome” to Tesla

By Jon Christian

The creators of an app called SocialRecall say it can use facial recognition to scan people you meet — or even strangers — and tell you their names.

This Facial Recognition App Remembers Names so You Don’t Have To

By Jon Christian

An upcoming NASA mission will test Earth's planetary defense against a killer asteroid by smashing a probe into a distant space rock.

NASA Scientist: Asteroid Deflection Mission Not Like “Armageddon”

By Jon Christian

New calculations suggest that Jupiter's moons could have active tidal waves, much like those here on Earth, under their thick icy shells.

The Moons of Jupiter and Saturn Could Have Earth-Like Tidal Waves

By Jon Christian

Holograms Are Resurrecting Dead Musicians, Raising Legal Questions

Holograms Are Resurrecting Dead Musicians, Raising Legal Questions

By Jon Christian

On Friday, Elon Musk speculated that a sophisticated artificial intelligence might touch down on the Red Planet before the first human Mars settler.

Elon Musk Thinks the First Mars Settler Could Be an AI

By Jon Christian

Leaked documents showing how Facebook controls speech online raise deep questions about the future of the company's role in international discourse.

Leaked Documents Show How Facebook Controls Speech Across the Globe

By Jon Christian

The ongoing government shutdown means that 95 percent of NASA's workforce is home on furlough during New Horizons' historic flyby.

Gov Shutdown Means 95 Percent of NASA Employees Aren’t At Work

By Jon Christian

A new cancer treatment that uses the body's own immune system to fight cancer is scheduled to start human trials in 2019.

Scientists to Test New Cancer Treatment on Human Patients in 2019

By Jon Christian

A mind-bending new theory claims to make sense not just of the expanding universe and extra dimensions, but string theory and dark energy as well.

New Theory: The Universe is a Bubble, Inflated by Dark Energy

By Jon Christian

The majority of U.S. adults would support gene editing embryos to protect babies against disease, according to a new poll.

Poll: Two Thirds of Americans Support Human Gene Editing to Cure Disease

By Jon Christian

A mining corporation says an autonomous rail system it's been developing in Australia is fully operational, making it the "world's largest robot."

Self-Driving Vehicles

Australian Autonomous Train Is The “World’s Largest Robot”

By Jon Christian

Robotics manufacturers are scrambling for more than a half billion dollars in Pentagon contracts for battlefield robots that will defuse bombs scout ahead.

The Pentagon Wants to Buy Thousands of Battlefield Robots

By Jon Christian

Tesla CEO Elon Musk pledged this week that the electric car maker is about to kick its fully autonomous self-driving vehicle ambitions up a notch.

Musk: Tesla’s Fully Autonomous Capabilities “About to Accelerate”

By Jon Christian

A Russian cosmonaut who helped investigate damage to the ISS says the hole was apparently drilled from the inside. Here's what it means.

Cosmonaut: Hole Was Drilled From Inside Space Station

By Jon Christian

CI Tau is a small star. But new research shows that its planets are absolute units, dwarfing the largest planets in our own system by an enormous margin.

These New Planets Are Massive. So Is What They Could Teach Us.

By Jon Christian

A porn studio says it's created a prototype helmet that uses seven cameras and a pair of binaural cameras to film the next generation of immersive video.

Virtual Reality

Why a Spider-Eyed “Sex Helmet” Could Be the Future of VR Video

By Jon Christian

SpaceX has shattered the record for commercial rocket launches in a year, at 20. That beats the prior record of 18 launches in a year — which it also set.

SpaceX Smashed the Record for Commercial Space Launches This Year

By Jon Christian

Tesla's upcoming Megapack energy storage system will be twelve times as powerful at the Powerpack 2, a colossal step up for Tesla's energy ambitions.

New Details About Tesla’s Gargantuan “Megapack” Power Storage Unit

By Jon Christian

A nuclear-powered tunneling bot could burrow through Europa's icy shell to probe its composition and, potentially, access the watery darkness under it.

NASA’s Nuclear-Powered Tunneling Bot Could Hunt for Life on Europa

By Jon Christian

Christianity takes on VR: Christians are using VR to preach to virtual congregations and experience Biblical stories in immersive 360-degree video.

Virtual Reality

HTC Thinks Virtual Reality’s Killer App Could Be Christianity

By Jon Christian

The iconic hamburger chain McDonald's could start serving up high-tech meatless burgers alongside its Big Macs and Chicken McNuggets.

Science & Energy

McDonald’s Exec: “We’re Keeping Our Eye” on Meatless Burgers

By Jon Christian

The United States should devote more resources to nuclear fusion research and build an ambitious prototype fusion power plant, according to a new report.

Science & Energy

Experts: United States Should Build a Prototype Fusion Power Plant

By Jon Christian

Elon Musk Wanders Tesla Factory, Firing Workers in Wild Mood Swings

By Jon Christian

A Chinese lander destined for the side of the Moon — the side that always faces away from the Earth — has now entered lunar orbit.

China’s Moon Lander Just Entered Lunar Orbit

By Jon Christian

This Ancient Galaxy Was Loaded With Dark Matter

Science & Energy

This Ancient Galaxy Was Loaded With Dark Matter

By Jon Christian

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