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Ethereum is about to implement a huge change dubbed "The Merge" to its platform — a change that has crypto miners shaking in their boots.
Ethereum

Here's why.

NASA is planning to smash a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if we can deflect any future asteroids— and it just acquired the first image of its target.
NASA

We're just weeks away from smashing a spacecraft into an asteroid.

The racketeering lawsuit against Elon Musk and his many companies just keeps getting bigger. The suit says Musk marketed Dogecoin but knew it was worthless.
Elon Musk

"It has no value at all."

Ludicrously Close Up Shots of the Sun Look Nothing Like You’d Expect
Off-World

The Sun looks like... Honey? Hair? Crystals?

In a scathing new interview, early Coinbase investor Liron Shapira took a swipe at the cryptocurrency space, calling it "essentially worthless."
Cryptocurrency

These are fighting words.

Bad news (maybe) for nail salons everywhere: a new robot called Clockwork is in town, and claims to "liberate" people from apparent manicure hell.
Artificial Intelligence

We have mixed feelings.

Students from four schools in West Virginia got to ride on an electric school bus for the first time yesterday. Mercer County may order more electric buses.
Advanced Transport

"It’s very quiet."

In a resurfaced audio clip, television personality and Pennsylvania senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz says that thinks that some incest is fine, actually.
Developments

"If you're more than a first cousin away, it's not a big problem."

Last year, oil and gas pipeline Ku-Maloob-Zaap in the Gulf of Mexico said a gas leak set the ocean on fire. Now, it's leaking methane gas by the ton.
Climate Change

Is it time for round two?

This crypto advocate has an idea: fill future games with poor people playing human-controlled non-playable characters (NPCs).
Cryptocurrency

"With the cheap labor of a developing country, you could use people in the Philippines as NPCs."

It's not clear yet whether a driver filmed sleeping behind the wheel of a speeding Tesla was sleeping while on autopilot on Queen Elizabeth Way in Canada.
Future Society

"He opened his eyes for a split second."

NASA's has yet to ignite and launch its Space Launch System-powered Artemis 1 rocket into orbit, an unfortunate bookend for a rocket plagued by setbacks.
Moon

The clock is ticking, folks.

The arctic glacier that many believe could predict "doomsday" could start collapsing faster than expected — and if that happens, we're all screwed.
Climate Change

This is really bad news, folks.

Media theorist and author Douglas Rushkoff described the kind of bunkers the super wealthy are building as they prepare for an apocalypse of some kind.
Climate Change

"I tried to reason with them."

Astronauts like the European Space Agency's Samantha Cristoforetti practice life-saving CPR procedures on board the International Space Station.
Off-World

"You have to find a way to push off against [a surface]." 

YouTuber Daniel Riley invented and built a laser-powered lawn mower — the epitome of something you shouldn't try to replicate at home.
Robots and Machines

"It's not going to cut your finger off or anything like that," he warned, "but a direct hit to your eyeball, even for just a nanosecond, would make you blind for the rest of your life."

After examining blood samples from 14 NASA astronauts, researchers found that samples from all 14 astronauts showed mutations in their DNA.
Gene Editing

Space is stranger than we know.

The energy crisis in Europe has gotten so bad that CERN is considering idling the Large Hadron Collider to save energy amid potential rationing.
Energy

Thanks, Russia.

NASA has shared an absolutely gorgeous time lapse filmed from on board the International Space Station showing off a stunning aurora.
Off-World

Auroras have never looked this good.

Shelling and fighting near Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Europe's largest nuclear plant, are making locals increasingly nervous about Russia.
Nuclear Fusion

The closest town is evacuating.