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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."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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.

By Victor Tangermann

China's Tianwen-1 spacecraft has taken an incredible image of Phobos, one of the two moons orbiting Mars, from just 3,160 miles away.
Mars

That is one lumpy moon!

By Victor Tangermann

The first photo from the James Webb Space Telescope is already awe-inspiring enough — but as it turns out, that's only a fraction of the whole picture.
James Webb Space Telescope

Astounding!

By Noor Al-Sibai

A chess robot playing three games at once broke a 7-year-old boy's finger in a tournament that ended Thursday in Russia. Officials say the bot was confused.
Robotics

"This, of course, is bad."

By Lonnie Lee Hood

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RX and Medicine

It's looking serious.

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Google has finally fired the engineer, Blake Lemoine, who insists the company's chatbot AI known as LaMBDA is sentient after a previous suspension.
Google

It finally happened.

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Upon arriving at harbors in Norway, this Freya the Walrus has chosen chaos: in her endless pursuit of sunny naps, she's has been sinking tiny Nordic boats.
Science & Energy

"I don't want her on the dock or on my boat."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A windmill in Texas caught on fire after getting strucking by lightning. Footage showed a spiral of smoke before the structure collapsed.
Wind

"That was pretty insane to watch!"

By Lonnie Lee Hood

In a damning report published yesterday, Reuters confirmed that carmaker Hyundai has been using child labor near its flagship factory in Montgomery, AL. 
Future Society

"Consumers should be outraged."

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Startup EarthGrid's plasma bot is built to bore tunnels underground fast and cheap, and may help run electric and power grid lines for the US.
Climate Change

"Imagine a robot with ten light sabers on the front."

By Lonnie Lee Hood

According to a new report, cryptocurrency company EminiFX collected a quarter of a billion dollars from investors before being exposed as a Ponzi scheme.
Cryptocurrency

If it sounds too good to be true...

By Victor Tangermann

One Reddit user captured video of an exceptional Tesla Semi that features a bucking horse mural on its side. Semis have been delayed for years.
Tesla

"I’m going to drive next to it for milesssssss to admire it."

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Scientists in Switzerland say they've figured out how to make jet fuel from water, carbon dioxide and sunlight using a solar tower.
Energy

This could be huge.

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Scientists at Hongtuo Joint Laboratory in Wuhan, China, have invented a somewhat mysterious laser pen that lets users write in mid-air.
Future Society

Wow.

By Lonnie Lee Hood

In light of the confirmed New York case of — checks notes — POLIO, here are all of the trending contagions to watch out for this summer.
Developments

From polio to snail-borne meningitis, here's your daily dose of hell!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

This weekend, China plans to launch a powerful Long March 5B rocket — and it's likely that parts of junk from the rocket will crash land back onto Earth.
Off-World

Not again!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An object that looks like a bundle of string that showed up in images taken by NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover earlier this month has suddenly disappeared.
Mars

Where did it come from, where did it go?

By Victor Tangermann

Florida authorities say the Giant African Land Snail carries rat lungworm, a deadly parasite that causes meningitis. Around 2,000 snails have been found.
Developments

"It was just a matter of time."

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A Coinbase manager, who has since been let go from the cryptocurrency exchange for insider trading, has been arrested after attempting to flee the country.
Blockchain

"Our message with these charges is clear: fraud is fraud is fraud, whether it occurs on the blockchain or on Wall Street."

By Victor Tangermann