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A NASA astronaut aboard the ISS got an amazing shot of the water, dirt, and silt draining out of Florida after Hurricane Ian.
Off-World

ISS Astronaut Snaps Photo of Florida Draining After the Massive Hurricane Ian

An incredible perspective.

By Noor Al-Sibai

President Joe Biden is publicly warning, in the starkest words possible, that a nuclear "Armageddon" with Russia could be imminent.
Future Society

President Biden Says He’s Concerned About Nuclear “Armageddon”

"We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis."

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's partnership with SpinLaunch has made an explosive entrance after shooting a payload out of the Suborbital Accelerator thousands of feet into the air.
NASA

The Payload NASA Shot Into Sky With Giant Gun Came Down So Hard They Needed to Dig It Out With an Excavator

That's one way to make an entrance.

By Frank Landymore

Jupiter's moons all vary considerably in size, as demonstrated in an amazing new video shared by the account MetaBallStudios on YouTube.
Moon

Awesome Video Shows Jupiter’s Moons in Comparison to NYC

How are there so many of them?

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has announced that the company is finally delivering its first all-electric Semi truck this winter to none other than Pepsi.
Elon Musk

Tesla Delivering First Semi Truck to Pepsi in December, Elon Musk Says

Pepsi's getting a Semi.

By Victor Tangermann

Mark Zuckerberg's push to make Facebook's Horizon Worlds metaverse platform the next big thing isn't convincing even its own developers.
Metaverse

Facebook Leak: Metaverse So Glitchy Not Even Employees Use It

"Why don’t we love the product we’ve built so much that we use it all the time?"

By Frank Landymore

Exoplanet SPECULOOS-2c, perhaps, can maybe give us an exact solar radiation level to be wary of. (Or a ballpark figure, at least.)
Exoplanets

Scientists Think This Exoplanet Shows What Earth Will Become in the Future

"It's like traveling five billion years into the Earth's future."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Before it disappeared in a cloud of smoke during Wednesday's launch, there was something off about the looks of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket.
NASA

Wait, the NASA Logo on SpaceX’s Rocket Looks Completely Messed Up

Wait, that doesn't look right at all.

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers from Purdue University claim to have discovered the basic "chemistry behind the origin of life" on Earth — in droplets of water.
Science & Energy

Scientists Claim to Have Discovered the “Secret Ingredient for Building Life”

"This is essentially the chemistry behind the origin of life."

By Victor Tangermann

NASA may soon be slingshotting its satellites into orbit thanks to its partnership with a startup that makes gigantic slingshots for that very purpose.
NASA

NASA Tests System to Fling Satellites Into Sky Using Huge Centrifuge

It fired it out at more than the speed of sound.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla CEO Elon Musk's disastrous attempt to back out of his bid to buy Twitter is backfiring spectacularly — and Tesla could be along for the ride.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Has a Big Problem on His Hands

Yet again, it's a problem of his own making.

By Victor Tangermann

Plenty of bright eyed and eager would-be-interns had their hopes and dreams crushed when Meta rudely decided to cut costs by getting rid of them.
Future Society

Oops! Facebook Tells Interns It Already Hired That It Can’t Afford Them Anymore

Sorry, kids!

By Frank Landymore

Academic Twitter has exploded with PNAS jokes after the hilariously-abbreviated journal published a nuclear economics take.
Future Society

Even Professional Scientists Think the Journal PNAS Has a Hilarious Name

The jokes write themselves.

By Noor Al-Sibai

There's plenty of truly impressive Minecraft creations out there. But recreating galaxies and black holes? That might take the cake.
Off-World

Madman Builds “Entire Universe” in Minecraft

Whoa.

By Frank Landymore

A video has gone viral of a massive drone dropping off a machine gun-wielding robot dog, a terrifying vision of the future of warfare.
Drones

China Shows Off Drone That Drops Robodog With Huge Gun Anywhere

Described as "war dogs" that "descend from the sky."

By Victor Tangermann

As murmurings of yet another adderall shortage begin to spread, people share their frustrations and worries online — and indicator of what's to come.
Health & Medicine

There’s a Shortage of Adderall and People Are Seriously Suffering

"It’s terrible that nothing is being done and that so many people are having to go without their meds."

By Frank Landymore

The top machine learning researcher at Facebook is quietly building a roadmap towards an "autonomous" AI that has common sense.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Top Facebook Scientist Quietly Plotting “Autonomous” AIs

This is as cool as is it is frightening.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Upscaling the iconic 1993 fighting game Virtua fighter using AI, creating comically photorealistic models of the characters? Why not.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Makes 1993 Video Game Look Photorealistic

Polygons... begone!

By Frank Landymore

The "Ice Bucket Challenge" to fund ALS research was so effective, it resulted in the development of a new drug that was just approved by the FDA.
Medical

Remember the Ice Bucket Challenge? It Ended Up Funding a New ALS Drug

But the story is complicated.

By Noor Al-Sibai

With the help of state-of-the-art supercomputers, we're getting a whole lot closer to unraveling the mystery behind the formation of the Moon.
Science & Energy

Brutal Video Simulates When Earth Hit Another Planet Many Years Ago

That hurts to watch.

By Victor Tangermann