More from Victor Tangermann (Page 100)

Watch footage of Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 return to the site of where it bombed asteroid Ruyugu in order to scoop up rock samples.

Watch a Japanese Spacecraft Grab Rock Samples From Tiny Asteroid

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers from Harvard and MIT's IBM Watson Lab have created an AI system that can detect if text or fake news was generated by another AI.

Artificial Intelligence

This AI Can Help Humans Spot AI-Generated Fake News

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists from the University of California San Diego created a robotic contact lens that can zoom in and out when you blink.

This Robotic Contact Lens Can Zoom in or out Just by Blinking

By Victor Tangermann

A new study suggests that tiny amounts of dark matter could behave like high-speed projectiles, capable of tearing through human flesh.

Study: “Dark Matter Bullets” Could Tear Human Flesh Apart

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX's Starhopper — a test rocket for its upcoming Starship rocket — just completed its first untethered test flight late last night.

SpaceX Just Flew Its Starship Prototype Without a Tether

By Victor Tangermann

A new analysis found that the "Cuban sonic attacks" may have caused U.S. diplomats' brain functions and white matter to be altered.

Brain Scans Show Abnormalities in Cuban “Sonic Weapon” Attack Survivors

By Victor Tangermann

Beyond Meat is Now Coming After Your Bacon

Beyond Meat is Now Coming After Your Bacon

By Victor Tangermann

Ex-beverage firm Long Island Iced Tea — now a blockchain company — is being investigated by the FBI for insider trading and securities fraud.

The FBI is Investigating Long Island Iced Tea’s Blockchain Pivot

By Victor Tangermann

Stanford researchers have developed a "quantum microphone" that is so sensitive, it can measure individual particles of sound, otherwise known as "phonons."

Quantum Physics

This “Quantum Microphone” Can Listen to a Single Sound Particle

By Victor Tangermann

A Tesla executive revealed that the number one reason Tesla customers visit service centers is to learn how to use Autopilot.

People Are Going to Tesla Service Centers Just to Learn About Autopilot

By Victor Tangermann

The Planetary Society's LightSail 2 satellite has successfully unfurled its massive boxing ring-sized solar sail on Tuesday.

LightSail 2 Spacecraft Officially Unfurls Massive Solar Sail

By Victor Tangermann

A number of millennial farmers in the U.S. are making more money talking about farming on their YouTube channels than from farming itself.

Millennial Farmers Make More Money on YouTube Than From Farming

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's plans to get to the Moon by 2024 are turning up the pressure to find a suitable replacement for spacesuits that date back to the 1970s.

NASA Really, Really Needs a New Spacesuit for 2024 Moon Mission

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers at the University of California found that there could be way more ice water on the surface of the Moon than we initially thought.

Science & Energy

Study: There’s Way More Water on the Moon Than We Thought

By Victor Tangermann

In an impressive feat of strength, an all-electric Ford F-150 pickup truck just pulled 1 million pounds of massive rail cars behind it for 1,000 feet.

Advanced Transport

Watch an Electric Ford F-150 Pickup Truck Tow 1 Million Pounds

By Victor Tangermann

Air Force “Stands Ready” to Defend Area 51 From Facebook Event

Air Force “Stands Ready” to Defend Area 51 From Facebook Event

By Victor Tangermann

India successfully launched their first ever lunar lander as part of its Chandrayaan-2 mission early Monday morning local time.

India Successfully Launches Lunar Lander Toward The Moon

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has big plans for the Starship: a "Super Heavy" variant will feature up to 41 Raptor engines, 35 of which will be used as a booster.

Elon Musk: Starship Super Heavy Will Have 41 Raptor Engines

By Victor Tangermann

A new subset of 7,500 unmodified photographs of natural objects is still able to completely throw AIs for a loop.

Artificial Intelligence

Why AIs Have No Idea What’s In These Mundane Pictures

By Victor Tangermann

A driverless bus collided with a 30-year-old woman in Vienna, Austria while traveling at 7.5 mph, according to Bloomberg.

Driverless Bus Collides with Pedestrian in Vienna

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk: Starhopper Survived Massive Fireball, Will Fly Again Soon

Elon Musk: Starhopper Survived Massive Fireball, Will Fly Again Soon

By Victor Tangermann

Pharma startup Multiply Labs wants to 3D print customized pills that combine all necessary prescriptions at exact doses.

This Startup Wants to 3D Print One Pill With All Your Prescriptions

By Victor Tangermann

A Norwegian company has developed a new remote-controlled fish pen that could both reduce the cost of feed and minimize salmon dying from sea lice.

Robots and Machines

Norwegian Firm Plans Offshore Remote-Controlled Salmon Farm

By Victor Tangermann

Google has reportedly decided to halt plans for launching a censored search engine in China."We have terminated Project Dragonfly."

Google “Terminated” Its Chinese Search Engine Plans

By Victor Tangermann

China Is Obsessed With Facebook’s Cryptocurrency

China Is Obsessed With Facebook’s Cryptocurrency

By Victor Tangermann

The German government just proposed to make measles vaccinations mandatory for children and people who work at kindergartens and schools.

Health & Medicine

Germany Plans to Make Measles Vaccines Mandatory for All Children

By Victor Tangermann

Crowdfunded spacecraft LightSail2 just snapped some incredible photos of the Earth days before it's planning to unfurl its solar sails.

Experimental Spacecraft LightSail 2 Snaps Amazing Photos

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has announced the first fruit to be grown in space before the end of this year: the humble Espanola chile pepper (capsicum annuum).

NASA Planning to Grow Chili Peppers on Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

In a post uploaded to her Instagram account, Grimes elaborated on her extremely unusual training regiment that's straight out of a bad sci-fi novel.

Health & Medicine

Grimes Uses Deprivation Tank to “Astro-Glide to Other Dimensions”

By Victor Tangermann

A Dutch astronomer and satellite tracker Ralf Vanderberg just spotted something extraordinary and rare: the U.S. Air Force's top-secret X-37B space plane.

Amateur Astronomer Spots US Air Force Space Plane Lurking in Orbit

By Victor Tangermann

A tongue-in-cheek Facebook event called "Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All of Us" recently amassed an army of over 200,000 conspirators and meme lovers.

Almost 300,000 People Say They’re Gonna Storm Area 51

By Victor Tangermann

In a new report by CNBC, Tesla employees said that they used electrical tape to fix plastic housings thanks to aggressive deadlines.

Tesla Employees Admit Using Electrical Tape to Fix Model 3s

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX has preliminary results to share about what it suspects caused its Crew Dragon capsule to fail during an engine test in April.

We Finally Know What Caused the SpaceX Crew Dragon Explosion

By Victor Tangermann

India officially called off the launch of its first mission to the Moon on Sunday a mere hour before launch due to a "technical snag."

India Calls Off Moon Mission One Hour Before Launch

By Victor Tangermann

A NASA Astrobiology Institute-funded project will be trying to find out if life could ever exist in Titan's ocean — and if it does, how to look for it.

Science & Energy

NASA Organizes Huge Effort to Study Alien Life in Titan’s Ocean

By Victor Tangermann

NASA just awarded Made In Space a $73.3 million contract to demonstrate 3D-printing spacecraft parts while in orbit using a small spacecraft.

NASA Approves Plan to 3D Print Giant Spaceship Parts in Orbit

By Victor Tangermann

Johnson & Johnson, one of the world's biggest pharmaceuticals, is set to begin human trials of an HIV vaccine in the U.S. and Europe.

This Pharma Company Is Set to Begin HIV Vaccine Trials

By Victor Tangermann

Dairy-free products company Perfect Day Foods just created a creamy ice cream using genetically modified yeast — and without relying on cows.

Scientists Created Dairy-Free Ice Cream From GM Yeast

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists figured out a simple way to create muscles that can lift 1,000 times their own weight: tightly coiled-up bamboo or silk fibers.

Robots and Machines

This “Artificial Muscle” is 60 Times Stronger Than a Human One

By Victor Tangermann

Artificial Intelligence

Facebook’s “Superhuman” Poker AI Out-Bluffs World’s Top Players

By Victor Tangermann

NASA just dropped an astonishing elaborate map of the over 4,003 exoplanets that we know to exist outside our Solar System.

NASA Just Released an Incredible Map of All Known Exoplanets

By Victor Tangermann

Physicist Sterling Backus is 3D printing a full-scale Lamborghini Aventador-inspired supercar in his own backyard with the help of his son.

A Physicist and His Son Are 3D-Printing a Full-Scale Lamborghini

By Victor Tangermann

Virgin Orbit just dropped a rocket that was strapped beneath a modified Boeing 747 jumbo jet. The system could greatly reduce satellite launch costs.

Virgin Just Dropped a Massive Rocket from a Gutted Jumbo Jet

By Victor Tangermann

India is getting ready to launch its first-ever lunar lander mission called Chandrayaan 2 on Sunday, including an orbiter, lander, and rover.

India Is Launching a Moon Mission This Weekend

By Victor Tangermann

Russia space agency Roscosmos confirmed that it's planning to 3D print structures on the moon to protect astronauts from the harsh environment by 2040.

Russia is Planning to 3D Print a Moon Base

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists 3D printed skin and bone samples upside down to see if astronauts on Mars could use the technology in low-gravity environments.

3D-Printed Human Skin and Bone Could Save Astronauts on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon has officially filed an application with the Federal Communications Comission (FCC) to launch some 3,236 broadband satellites.

Amazon Wants to Join SpaceX and Launch 3,200 Internet Satellites

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers in Japan developed a tiny microchip valve that can be powered by a living cells and a naturally occuring chemical.

Robots and Machines

“Cyborg-Like” Earthworm Controls Microchip With Its Muscles

By Victor Tangermann

NASA just awarded SpaceX with a launch services contract to launch NASA's Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission in 2021.

Science & Energy

SpaceX Scores NASA Contract to Launch Black Hole Spacecraft

By Victor Tangermann

Worrying reports of Samsung Galaxy Fold review units showing small bulges and broken displays are coming in.

Review Units of Samsung’s Folding Phone Are Breaking Almost Immediately

By Victor Tangermann

A small fire broke out today at SpaceX's facility in Florida that's focused on bringing the Starship rocket to life, as TechCrunch reports.

Fire Breaks Out at SpaceX Starship Facility in Florida

By Victor Tangermann

A giant asteroid the size of a car just showed up on the University of Hawaii's survey telescopes mere hours before it entered the Earth's atmosphere.

Science & Energy

Massive Asteroid Explodes Above Puerto Rico Mere Hours After Detection

By Victor Tangermann

Alphabet-owned subsidiary Sidewalk Labs just released a massive 1,524 page document outlining its plans for a $1.3 billion 190 acre smart city in Toronto.

Alphabet-Owned Company Unveils Plans for Smart City

By Victor Tangermann

To some, collecting resources from other planets or asteroids instead of using up the Earth could be the key to ensuring that we — and our planet — survive.

Billionaires Are Dead Serious About Moving Factories to Space

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers built a device small room-sized device that spins willing participants on a giant platform to mimic the effect of Earth-like gravity in space.

This Room-Sized Device Could Create Artificial Gravity in Space

By Victor Tangermann

A town in southern France called Villevieille just hit the country's hottest ever recorded temperature of 45.1 degrees Celsius (113 Fahrenheit).

Climate Change Update: France Just Hit Highest Recorded Temp

By Victor Tangermann

Astrobiologists believe that the answer to what alien life could look like on icy moons like Saturn's moon Enceladus could lie deep on the ocean floor.

Science & Energy

Aliens on Icy Moons Could Look Like Organisms Near Seafloor Volcanoes

By Victor Tangermann

SpinLaunch, a company that specializes in a space katapult launch system, just signed a contract with the U.S. Department of Defense's Innovation Unit (DIU).

Hypersonic Space Catapult Startup Signs Military Contract

By Victor Tangermann

As part of project Dragonfly, NASA is planning to send a small spacecraft to Saturn's moon Titan, a moon with an extremely dense atmosphere.

Breaking: NASA Announces Mission to Saturn’s Largest Moon Titan

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk just revealed that the base model Roadster will accelerate from 0-60 mph in just over two seconds "before adding rocket thruster option."

Advanced Transport

Musk: Roadster to Go 0-60 in 2.1 Seconds “Before Thruster Option”

By Victor Tangermann

The biggest supplier of police body cameras and software called Axon just called it quits on using AI-powered facial recognition systems for its devices.

Facial recognition

Police Body Camera Maker Decides Against Using Facial Recognition

By Victor Tangermann

The U.S. Special Forces are developing a device that can detect a person's unique cardiac signature using an IR laser from a distance.

Science & Energy

New Laser Can Identify People From a Distance By Their Heartbeat

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers from the University of Michigan found widespread traces of naturally-occurring dimethyltryptamine (DMT) in the mammalian brain.

Naturally-Occurring “Mystical” Psychedelic Found in Mammal Brains

By Victor Tangermann

Six weeks after Indian authorities promised all of the debris created by their missile test was burned up in the atmosphere, 41 out of 400 pieces remain.

Dangerous Debris From India’s Exploded Satellite Still Orbiting Earth

By Victor Tangermann

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