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A team of researchers have discovered "pits" in the lunar surface which, according to their computer modeling, sit at a balmy 63 degrees Fahrenheit.
Moon

A balmy 63 degrees Fahrenheit.

A massive piece of Chinese space junk is slowly making its descent back down to Earth — and nobody is entirely sure where it will fall.
Off-World

"Due to the uncontrolled nature of its descent, there is a non-zero probability of the surviving debris landing in a populated area."

Residents of Indiana and surrounding states saw a massive fireball meteor hurtle through the atmosphere in the earliest hours on Saturday morning.
Off-World

"I've never seen anything like what I just saw."

Quantum physicists have effectively opened a portal to a new time dimension while creating a new topological phase of quantum matter.
Physics

This is pretty mind-bending.

Researchers working at Samsung AI Center unveil "neural head avatar technology" that turns still photos into eerily lifelike animated faces.
Artificial Intelligence

Wow.

A person who bought a used 2013 Model S is now being charged $4,500 to unlock the full range of the vehicle, according to a now-viral Twitter thread.
Tesla

"They basically robbed him and are demanding a ransom to get back what he had before."

Michael Williams has filed a lawsuit against Chicago on grounds that an AI policing program called ShotSpotter led to his wrongful arrest.
Future Society

Officers are accused of putting "blind faith" in a notoriously unreliable platform.

Nearly 20 years of Alzheimer's research could be undone after investigators uncover that a widely cited and influential paper may have used fabricated data.
Studies

These are serious allegations.

China has added a new science laboratory module dubbed Wentian to its growing space station this week, an impressive feat.
Space

They're wasting no time.

A firm is organizing a class-action lawsuit against Yuga Labs, accusing them of inflating the worth of digital assets BAYC NFTs and native token ApeCoin.
Blockchain

This lawsuit could potentially force the SEC's hand.

Russian space corporation Roscosmos has finally formally announced it is abandoning the International Space Station — at some point "after 2024."
International Space Station

Putin is pleased.

You might want to have the spidey-sense to stay away from this one: engineers at Rice University have turned dead spiders into “necrobotic” grippers.
Robotics

No... please no...

Mainstream cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is reportedly under investigation by the Securities and Exchanges Commission, Bloomberg reports.
Blockchain

Is crypto regulation finally on the horizon?

A Romanian rocket startup called ARCA Space has come up with an absolutely ludicrous rocket design to launch payloads into orbit.
Off-World

"This is possibly the dumbest space thing I've ever seen..."

On the list of terrible things to wake to wake your pregnant wife up with, the news that you've lost $100,000 in crypto is right up there.
Cryptocurrency

Bad news, honey.

Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli is reportedly launching a Web3 drug discovery platform called Druglike, allegedly to democratize and decentralize the industry.
RX and Medicine

This man simply will not stop.

A NASA-funded project aims to use the Sun as a gigantic lens to peer into the far reaches of the universe to look for extraterrestrial biosignatures.
Exobiology

An epic task.

Elegant Chaos: Planetary Orbital Planes
From Quarks to Quasars

A Colorado lawmaker warned that DNA-based bioweapons are on the horizon — and that private DNA-testing companies may make that possible by selling data.
Gene Editing

"People will very rapidly spit into a cup and send it to 23andMe... and guess what? Their DNA is now owned by a private company."

Follow-up experiments attempting to recreate a landmark laser fusion breakthrough are falling far short of expectations, Nature reports.
Energy

They aren't even getting close.