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A team of scientists at Stanford have found a way to stabilize perovskite, a natural mineral, setting the groundwork for more efficient solar panels.

Materials Breakthrough Could Lead to Cheaper, Better Solar Panels

By Victor Tangermann

Biden has appointed Jessica Rosenworcel as acting chair for the Federal Communications Commission, a strong supporter of net neutrality.

Biden’s Pick to Lead FCC is Big Supporter of Net Neutrality

By Victor Tangermann

In a number of new executive orders, president Joe Biden has called on Americans to wear masks in public for the next 100 days.

Biden Calls on All Americans to Wear Masks in Public For 100 Days

By Victor Tangermann

The US Army Is Testing an Auto-Aiming Part of Its “Iron Man” Suit

Robots and Machines

The US Army Is Testing an Auto-Aiming Part of Its “Iron Man” Suit

By Victor Tangermann

In a letter obtained by Reuters, Amazon offered to help president Joe Biden with the country's efforts to roll out the COVID-19 vaccine.

Amazon Offers to Help White House Distribute COVID Vaccine

By Victor Tangermann

In an experiment, NASA set several controlled fires inside a used Cygnus cargo resupply spacecraft to study how fire spreads in microgravity.

Watch a Fire Break Out on Board a NASA Spacecraft

By Victor Tangermann

TikTok star Johnathon Cook uploaded a video of himself sleeping in a made bed in the back of a moving Tesla Model 3, a flagrantly illegal act.

TikTok Star Sets Up Bed in Tesla to Sleep While Autopilot Drives

By Victor Tangermann

According to documents obtained by The Drive, pilots believe they may have spotted an inflatable person-shaped drone instead of the real thing in September.

Airport Jetpack Sighting May Have Actually Been Person-Shaped Drone

By Victor Tangermann

Public records dug up by NASASpaceflight reporters show that SpaceX bought two deepwater oil rigs last summer to convert them into floating launchpads.

SpaceX Bought Two Huge Oil Rigs to Use as Floating Launchpads

By Victor Tangermann

A team of Chinese scientists have developed a gene therapy that was shown to reverse some aspects of aging and extend lifespans in mice.

New Gene Therapy Reverses Aging in Mice

By Victor Tangermann

Self-Driving Vehicles

This Is Cadillac’s Wild Flying Car Concept

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new study published last week, an iPhone 12 can interfere with a pacemaker just by placing one close to the patient's heart.

Prosthetics and Devices

An iPhone 12 Can Temporarily Shut Down Implantable Defibrillators

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Juno spacecraft reportedly detected an FM radio signal coming from the Jovian moon Ganymede, local Utah news station KTVX reports.

Science & Energy

NASA Reportedly Detects Signal Coming From One of Jupiter’s Moons

By Victor Tangermann

Max Craddock was facing a ten year prison sentence in Italy after bringing his Boring Company Not a Flamethrower on a trip.

Man Faced 10 Year Sentence for Wielding Elon Musk Flamethrower

By Victor Tangermann

Bitcoin miners and PC gamers are keeping their homes warm using the heat generated by their computers, as The Wall Street Journal reports.

Science & Energy

Bitcoin Miners Are Heating Chicken Coops With Their Rigs

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have spotted a new type of "spider star," highly energetic pulsars that tear up their companion stars, that defies classification.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Discover “Spider Stars” That Tear Apart Other Stars

By Victor Tangermann

Man Accidentally Buried $275 Million of Bitcoin in Landfill

Man Accidentally Buried $275 Million of Bitcoin in Landfill

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has to prematurely shut down a critical "hot fire" test of the engines meant to one day carry the Orion spacecraft to the Moon.

NASA Bungles Critical Engine Test For New Moon Rocket

By Victor Tangermann

According to Russian state-owned news, hired assassins are taking cryptocurrencies as payment for their crimes making them extremely difficult to track.

Russia Complains That Assassins Are Getting Paid in Cryptocurrencies

By Victor Tangermann

A COVID-19 reserve held back intended to be used as second booster shots by the Trump administration doesn't actually exist, the Washington Post reports.

Report: Trump Admin’s Promised COVID Vaccine Reserve Doesn’t Exist

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new study, high-energy X-ray emissions around a group of neutron stars may be caused by axions, one of the top candidates for dark matter.

Science & Energy

Distant Neutron Stars May Offer Clue About the Truth of Dark Matter

By Victor Tangermann

Canadian tinkerer Brydon Gibson, 24-year-old Ottawa native, has built himself a "jetpack" that can allow him to ice skate at up to 25 mph, the CBC reports.

Man Invents Backpack-Mounted “Jetpack” for Speedy Ice Skating

By Victor Tangermann

A developer has taken the extensive amount of data uploaded to Parler during the Capitol riots on January 6 and turned it into an interactive map.

Leaked Parler Data Contains Stunning Details About Capitol Attack

By Victor Tangermann

A team of engineers at MIT have created a concept for a hybrid-electric plane that could reduce nitrogen oxide emissions by 95 percent.

Advanced Transport

MIT Unveils Design for Hybrid-Electric Airliner

By Victor Tangermann

Blue Origin successfully launched its New Shepard rocket at its testing site in Texas today, including an autonomous booster landing.

Blue Origin’s New Shepard Pulls Off Spectacular Test Launch

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have managed to program data into the DNA of living bacteria for the first time, allowing the data to be passed on to the next generation.

Science & Energy

Scientists Successfully Store Data Inside DNA of Living Bacteria

By Victor Tangermann

An international team of astronomers have detected a violent eruption of light emanating from a galaxy that repeats itself every 114 Earth days.

Science & Energy

A Black Hole Bites a Chunk Out of This Star Every 114 Days

By Victor Tangermann

The "mole" attached to NASA's InSight Mars lander, which has been attempting to dig itself into the rocky surface, is giving up, according to NASA.

NASA’s Mars Mole Is Giving Up

By Victor Tangermann

Andrew Yang is officially running for mayor of New York City on a campaign that promises to bring universal basic income to the city.

Universal Basic Income

Andrew Yang Proposes Basic Income For New York City

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX just won two contracts to launch both a commercial lunar lander, a mission backed by NASA, as well as a satellite meant to monitor methane emissions.

SpaceX Secures NASA Contract to Launch Lunar Lander

By Victor Tangermann

Residents in Shenyang, China are being tested for COVID-19 by a plastic-wrapped robotic arm that is being remotely controlled from the next room.

Prosthetics and Devices

China Is Using Robots to Administer COVID Tests

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new study, we could theoretically extract energy from the enormous amounts of emissions emanating from black holes.

Physicists Outline Plan to Harvest Energy From Black Holes

By Victor Tangermann

Engineers behind the epic YouTube account Hacksmith Industries have created a functioning hoverboard that actually hovers like the real thing.

Inventors Create Working Hoverboard

By Victor Tangermann

Biotech company United Therapeutics is planning to begin transplanting organs from genetically modified pigs into humans as soon as this year.

A Startup Is Planning Pig-to-Human Organ Transplants This Year

By Victor Tangermann

In a recent study, an international group of scientists argue that dark matter doesn't exist. It's simply our limited scientific understanding of gravity.

New Study Claims Dark Matter Doesn’t Exist

By Victor Tangermann

A boutique automotive manufacturer is challenging Elon Musk to race the Cybertruck at the 2023 Baja 1000 with a hydrogen-powered vehicle.

Advanced Transport

Carmaker Challenges Cybertruck to Off-Road Race Against Fuel Cell Vehicle

By Victor Tangermann

Unsuspecting residents in Hawaii spotted something exceedingly strange: a large blue unidentified object falling out of the sky and into the ocean.

Video Shows Blue UFO Falling Into Ocean in Hawaii

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have made a baffling discovery: the Earth's spin is accelerating. In fact, the Earth is spinning faster than ever recorded.

Science & Energy

The Earth is Spinning So Fast, We Might Need to Skip a Second

By Victor Tangermann

Saudi Arabia has announced it's newest zero-carbon city project called "The Line" that's being built in a straight 100 mile line.

Renewable Energy

Saudi Arabia Is Building a Zero-Carbon City in a 100-Mile Straight Line

By Victor Tangermann

PC gaming company Razer just showed off Project Hazel, a smart face mask with N95 filters, a charging case, and RGB lighting.

High Tech N95 Mask Amplifies Your Voice With Built-In Sound System

By Victor Tangermann

The Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California will be turned into a "super site" for COVID-19 vaccinations in the surrounding Orange County later this week.

Disneyland Will Turn Into a Giant Vaccine Distribution Center

By Victor Tangermann

Responding to writer Ben Mezrich, who said that he's "never turning down getting paid in bitcoin again" in a Friday tweet, Musk replied with "me neither."

Elon Musk Says He Would Take a Salary in Bitcoin

By Victor Tangermann

Eight gorillas at the San Diego Zoo have tested positive for COVID-19, the Associated Press reports, the first known case amount such primates in the US.

Eight Gorillas in Zoo Catch Coronavirus

By Victor Tangermann

South Korean tech giant Samsung has teased its new domestic household helper robot at this year's virtual-only CES — and it's called "Bot Handy."

Watch a Samsung Robot Load Dirty Dishes Into the Dishwasher

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX is building a restaurant and a "futuristic bar" at its Starship testing facility in Boca Chica, Texas, according to CEO Elon Musk.

SpaceX Building Bar and Restaurant at Starship Testing Facility

By Victor Tangermann

State officials are dispatching refrigerated trucks across the state to hold corpses as the rising COVID-19 death toll is causing funeral homes to fill up.

California Is Packing the COVID Dead Into Refrigerated Trucks

By Victor Tangermann

According to a recent statement, South Korean automaker Hyundai Motors is in early-stage talks with tech titan Apple to develop an electric car.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Apple Is Trying to Find a Manufacturer For Its Self-Driving Car

By Victor Tangermann

NASA and the European Space Agency have graced us with six glorious views of mindbogglingly massive galaxy mergers, courtesy of the Hubble Space Telescope.

NASA Releases Hubble Images of Galaxies Smashing Into Each Other

By Victor Tangermann

The pro-Trump group storming the Capitol building on Thursday took close to zero precautions to protect themselves from the coronavirus.

Pro-Trump Rioters Who Looted Capitol Likely Caused Super-Spreader Event

By Victor Tangermann

According to a preliminary lab test conducted by Pfizer, their COVID vaccine is effective against new highly transmissible variants of the virus.

Pfizer Says Its COVID Vaccine Is Effective Against New Strains

By Victor Tangermann

A group of Finnish researchers are proposing the creation of a permanent "megasatellite" human habitat in the orbit of Ceres.

Scientists Propose Permanent Human Habitat Built Orbiting Ceres

By Victor Tangermann

Mercedes-Benz has just unveiled its futuristic vision for its upcoming EQS luxury electric sedan: a wall-to-wall, 56-inch touchscreen called "Hyperscreen."

Advanced Transport

Mercedes-Benz Debuts Dashboard That’s One Giant Touchscreen

By Victor Tangermann

China is set to launch three missions to kick off the construction of its space station. The first launch could happen as soon as this spring.

China Is Launching Three Missions to Construct Its Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is now the richest man in the world, beating out incumbent Jeff Bezos.

Elon Musk Is Now Officially the Wealthiest Person on Earth

By Victor Tangermann

According to Bloomberg, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk could soon surpass Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to become the richest person in the world.

Elon Musk Poised to Become the Richest Person in the World

By Victor Tangermann

Twitter Censors Trump Tweet “Due to Risk of Violence”

Twitter Censors Trump Tweet “Due to Risk of Violence”

By Victor Tangermann

Famed YouTube account Unbox Therapy just got their hands on a particularly apocalyptic take on the future: a BioVYZR "personal air-purifying shield."

Wanna Go Out In Public? Check Out This Ridiculous Biohazard Suit

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania are trying to figure out if we can send robots that are made out of ice to another planet

Scientists Want to Send a Robot Made of Ice to Another Planet

By Victor Tangermann

A Japanese startup called Sumitomo Forestry is teaming up with Kyoto University to develop the world's first satellites — that are made out of wood.

A Japanese Startup Is Building Wooden Satellites

By Victor Tangermann

Following reports of a jetpack flying near LAX, a new video appeared of a mysterious jetpack traveling at 3,000 feet in Southern California.

Advanced Transport

Video Claims to Show Person Flying Jetpack Near Airport

By Victor Tangermann

South Korea's fusion reactor just set a new world record, maintaining temperatures of over 100 million degrees for 20 long seconds.

Korean “Artificial Sun” Fusion Reactor Sets New World Record

By Victor Tangermann

In Chaotic Project, Mechanic Installs Gas Engine in Tesla

In Chaotic Project, Mechanic Installs Gas Engine in Tesla

By Victor Tangermann

A team of engineers from Rutgers University in New Jersey have created a 3D-printed smart gel that can change its shape when exposed to light.

Super-Flexible Display Could Enable Real-Life Active Camouflage

By Victor Tangermann

In a new book, Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb argues that interstellar space rock 'Oumuamua could be an alien probe sent to us by an advanced civilization.

Science & Energy

Harvard Astronomer Argues That Aliens Visited Us in 2017

By Victor Tangermann

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