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The engineers behind the YouTube "the Hacksmith" have crafted a real-world "Star Wars"-style lightsaber that burns hot enough to cut through steel.

Robots and Machines

Engineers Create Plasma-Powered Lightsaber That Can Cut Metal

By Victor Tangermann

A team of German physicists managed to pack up light — and unpack it 1.2 millimeters away without altering it in the process.

Quantum Physics

Physicists Just Stored and Transported Light Itself

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk announced on Twitter today that the Tesla Model S "Long Range" sedan is getting a price cut to $69,420, just undercutting competitor Lucid.

Elon Musk Slashes Tesla Model S Price to $69,420

By Victor Tangermann

For its first time, NASA has successfully collected samples from the surface of an asteroid using the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on Tuesday.

For the First Time In Its History, NASA Successfully Collects Sample From Asteroid

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX's latest Starship prototype called SN8 completed a "static fire" test of its three Raptor engines early this morning.

SpaceX Starship Prototype Fires Up Its 3 Engines Ahead of Flight to 12 Miles

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is about to send its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft down to the surface of Bennu, a small near-Earth asteroid about 500 meters across, to scoop up a sample.

Science & Energy

Here’s How to Watch as NASA Attempts to Grab a Sample From an Asteroid

By Victor Tangermann

The China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation just laid our its five year plan to commercialize space, including plans for a spaceplane.

China Says It’ll Fly Astronauts to Orbit in New Spaceplane

By Victor Tangermann

UK researchers are preparing for a controversial experiment involving injecting healthy human test subjects with the coronavirus.

Researchers Are Starting to Infect People With COVID on Purpose

By Victor Tangermann

In what sounds like a strange act of divination, the current crew of the International Space Station just used tea leaves to identity the station's leak.

They Found the Space Station Leak… Using Tea Leaves

By Victor Tangermann

US prosecutors have charged six Russian intelligence officers for being involved in several major cyberattacks, including disrupting the 2018 Olympic Games.

US Indicts Russia for Some of the Biggest Cyberattacks in Recent History

By Victor Tangermann

The Hubble Space Telescope just captured a spectacular new image of two galaxies starting to be pulled towards the center of another.

Science & Energy

Hubble Telescope Sees a Cosmic “Waterspout” in This Dazzling New Image

By Victor Tangermann

Robot manufacturer Agility has built a human-like robot called Digit that can load boxes onto a truck — and the company is now selling it for $250,000.

Headless Box-Stacking Robot Ready to Be Enslaved for $250,000

By Victor Tangermann

Speaking at the Mars Society's convention last week, Elon Musk claimed that SpaceX has a "fighting chance" to send a Starship to Mars in 2024.

Elon Musk Wants to Send First Starship to Mars in 2024

By Victor Tangermann

Firefighters across the West Coast are dropping special fireballs from drones to keep an unusually severe wildfire season under control.

Firefighters Are Using Drones That Drop Fireballs

By Victor Tangermann

Two separate mysterious sightings of a person flying a jetpack near the Los Angeles International Airport have law enforcement worried.

Advanced Transport

LA Cops Use Aircraft to Hunt Mystery Jetpack Dude

By Victor Tangermann

China has released a video of a test involving an array of 48 weaponized drones launching from the back of a truck and from a helicopter.

Brutal Chinese Weapon Launches Swarm of Explosive Suicide Drones

By Victor Tangermann

"Doesn't seem to be any life in this solar system," billionaire and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wrote in a recent tweet, responding to fan mail from a 13-year-old.

Elon Musk: “Doesn’t Seem to Be Any Life in This Solar System”

By Victor Tangermann

For the first time, researchers have figured out how to record videos of light moving in three dimensions, shooting at 100 billion frames a second.

Science & Energy

Ultra-Speed Caltech Camera Films Light Moving Through Space in 3D

By Victor Tangermann

For years, astronomers have been speculating that Betelgeuse was about to explode in a supernova. But such an event could still be a long way off.

Science & Energy

Astronomers: This Star Isn’t As Giant As We Thought, Just Closer

By Victor Tangermann

San Francisco-based engineering company Edge Innovations has designed and built a robot dolphin that looks and acts just like the real thing.

Robots and Machines

Ultra-Realistic Remote Controlled Dolphin Looks Like the Real Thing

By Victor Tangermann

BepiColombo, the European-Japanese spacecraft headed to Mercury, snapped some incredible selfies while making a close flyby past Venus.

Science & Energy

Spacecraft Shoots Epic Selfies With Venus in the Background

By Victor Tangermann

NASA Awards SpaceX $53 Million for Orbital Starship Refueling Test

NASA Awards SpaceX $53 Million for Orbital Starship Refueling Test

By Victor Tangermann

The oxygen supply system providing the Russian segment on board the International Space Station with air has failed, Agence France-Presse reports.

International Space Station

Oxygen Supply Fails on Leaking Segment of International Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

In a now deleted tweet, Tesla CEO Elon Musk elaborated on the Boring Company's vision in the future: "We will make a dense Tesla if it matters."

Elon Tweets About New Tesla Vehicle, Then Deletes Tweet

By Victor Tangermann

German automaker Audi has introduced new LED headlights can project images just like a movie projector for its new lineup of electric SUVs.

Advanced Transport

Audi’s New Headlights Can Project Images Like a Movie Theater

By Victor Tangermann

In a Fox News interview over the phone on Sunday, Trump was asked why the Department of Defense has set up a UFO task force. His answer was perplexing.

Trump Implies That the US Military Could Defeat Aliens If They Show Up

By Victor Tangermann

On Twitter, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk showed off a picture of the underside of the SN8 Starship prototype, featuring three massive Raptor engines.

Elon Musk Shows Off Underside of Gigantic New Starship Prototype

By Victor Tangermann

A Soyuz launched a NASA astronaut to the ISS, the last time NASA paid for an American astronaut to fly with the Russian space corporation, Roscosmos.

Russia Launches Final Soyuz With NASA Astronauts Aboard

By Victor Tangermann

The US Army is developing augmented reality goggles for dogs to help protect their human guardians by allowing them to command the dog from a distance.

The US Military Developed AR Goggles For Dogs

By Victor Tangermann

A Native American tribe in Washington state just got a major internet upgrade, getting early access to SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet.

SpaceX Gives Native American Tribe Early Access to Starlink Internet

By Victor Tangermann

Mercedes-Benz has teased a new electric car concept called Vision EQXX with a whopping 750 miles of range on a single charge.

Advanced Transport

Mercedes-Benz Says Its Electric Car Will Have Whopping 750 Mile Range

By Victor Tangermann

A startup called Bolt Threads is using a special kind of fiber made from mycelium, the underpinning of mushrooms, to create "Mylo," a leather-like material.

Science & Energy

Adidas, Lululemon Say They’ll Make Clothes Out of Mushroom Leather

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's four-wheeled rover called DuAxel can split into two separate two-wheeled rovers, and is intended to explore hard to reach places in faraway places.

NASA Shows Off Transforming Rover for Exploring Steep Cliffs on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Google’s Parent Company Is Building a Farming Robot

Google’s Parent Company Is Building a Farming Robot

By Victor Tangermann

Columbia University astronomer David Kipping argues that there's about a 50-50 chance we are living inside a simulation, but we don't know for sure.

Science & Energy

Columbia Professor: There’s a 50% Chance We’re Living in a Simulation

By Victor Tangermann

The European Space Agency's Space Debris Office is warning that the risk of space debris explosions in orbit is on the rise.

Space Debris Trackers Warn of “Explosions in Orbit”

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla is releasing a "Full Self-Driving Beta" to some owners who are "expert and careful drivers" some time next week, according to CEO Elon Musk.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Musk: Tesla Is Rolling Out a Beta of “Full Self-Driving” Next Week

By Victor Tangermann

A team of students from the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands have created a car that's almost entirely made out of recycled waste.

Science & Energy

This Sporty Car Is Made Almost Entirely From Recycled Waste

By Victor Tangermann

Watch an Astronaut Show You How to Poop in Space

Watch an Astronaut Show You How to Poop in Space

By Victor Tangermann

The CEO of space startup Rocket Lab Peter Beck told CNN that space in Earth's orbit is becoming worryingly congested.

Space Startup CEO Warns That Orbit Is Filling Up With Space Startups

By Victor Tangermann

NASA Spacecraft Finds Evidence of Ancient Rivers on Asteroid

Science & Energy

NASA Spacecraft Finds Evidence of Ancient Rivers on Asteroid

By Victor Tangermann

NASA Invests in 3D Printing Space Habitat Technology

NASA Invests in 3D Printing Space Habitat Technology

By Victor Tangermann

Physician Ali Vaziri accidentally "butt-dialed" himself into a $4,2080 "Enhanced Autopilot" upgrade for his Tesla Model 3, CNBC reports.

A Tesla Driver Accidentally “Butt-Dialed” a $4,200 Upgrade to His Car

By Victor Tangermann

Virgin Hyperloop One has announced it is planning to build a certification center in West Virginia with construction of a test loop starting in 2022.

Richard Branson Is Building a Hyperloop Testing Center in West Virginia

By Victor Tangermann

American astronomer Andrea Ghez just won this year's Nobel prize in physics for her groundbreaking work on black holes, only the fourth woman to do so.

Science & Energy

Nobel Prize Winner on Falling Into a Black Hole: “I Would Not Want To”

By Victor Tangermann

A team of engineers at the University of California San Diego have built a squid robot that can propel itself through water just like the real thing.

This Swimming Squid Robot Looks Absolutely Amazing

By Victor Tangermann

In an email, a Tesla executive warned workers that an anonymous employee "maliciously sabotaged" part of a factory last month.

Leaked Tesla Memo: Angry Employee Sabotaged Part of Factory

By Victor Tangermann

Russia's space corporation just unveiled plans for its "Amur rocket" — a design that has some striking similarities with SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket

Elon Musk Just Dissed Russia’s New Reusable Rocket Design

By Victor Tangermann

In a New York Times Opinion interview, Elon Musk raveled that he's not planning on getting a COVID vaccine once one becomes available.

Elon Musk: I Refuse to Get a COVID Vaccine

By Victor Tangermann

According to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, the space company will give an update on its Starship spacecraft in about three weeks.

Elon Musk: “Starship Update Coming in 3 Weeks”

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers from Monash University in Melbourne is preparing to implant a bionic eye as part of the world's first human clinical trials.

Prosthetics and Devices

Doctors Are Preparing to Implant the World’s First Human Bionic Eye

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers at MIT claim their "SPARC" compact fusion reactor should work — or at least in theory, as they argue in a series of papers.

MIT Researchers Say Their Fusion Reactor Is “Very Likely to Work”

By Victor Tangermann

With just hours left before he turned 13, Jackson Oswalt managed to fuse two deuterium atoms together in a fusion reactor he built — in his play room.

Middle Schooler Builds Tiny, Working Fusion Reactor

By Victor Tangermann

Surfers in Kamchatka, Russia are reporting that the ocean water is leaving them with poisoning-like symptoms, including nausea, weakness, and high fever.

Russian Surfers Say Mysterious Pollution Is Poisoning Them

By Victor Tangermann

Toyota has announced it will officially develop a production hydrogen fuel cell-powered, electric semi truck, a collaboration with manufacturer Hino.

Advanced Transport

Toyota Announces Hydrogen-Powered Semi Truck

By Victor Tangermann

NASA released a "treasure trove of cosmic delights," gorgeous imagery courtesy of telescopes from around the world, last month.

Science & Energy

Gorgeous NASA X-Ray Images of Universe Look Like an 80s Nightclub

By Victor Tangermann

Using the Very Large Telescope in Chile, astronomers managed to confirm the existence of an exoplanet by taking a picture of it for the first time.

Science & Energy

Scientists Just Took an Actual Picture of a Planet in Another Star System

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla’s Roof Flies Off While Driving Home From Dealership

By Victor Tangermann

The UK National Health Service's Test and Trace team didn't report over 15,000 COVID-19 cases due to an easily avoided Excel fumble.

The UK Didn’t Realize How Bad COVID Had Gotten Because of an Excel Screwup

By Victor Tangermann

According to internal documents obtained by Bloomberg, America's largest oil and gas corporation Exxon Mobil has been planning to increase annual emissions.

Exxon Mobil Planning to Massively Increase Its Annual Emissions

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists are using viruses harvested from common plants to create cancer immunotherapies — and they've already proven to be effective in animal models.

This Strange Plant Virus Could Treat Many Cancers

By Victor Tangermann

The UK military has created a drone that's equipped with two shotgun barrels and a "machine vision" system to identify targets indoors.

UK Military Develops Drone With a Double Barreled Shotgun

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers have developed "transparent wood," a glass-like material that is more cost efficient, stronger, and safer than glass.

Science & Energy

Scientists Create Clear, Glasslike Material Out of Wood

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have spotted something strange and unexpectedly sad: a rogue planet floating freely in the dark confines of our galaxy.

Science & Energy

An Earth-Sized Planet Is Floating Around Without a Star

By Victor Tangermann

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