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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

Scientists Turn Dead Spiders Into “Necrobotic” Arachnoborgs

No... please no...

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

Coinbase Reportedly Under Investigation by the SEC

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 Might Be the Weirdest-Looking Rocket We’ve Ever Seen

"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

Man Wakes Pregnant Wife to Tell Her He Lost $100,000 on Crypto

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

Martin Shkreli Is out of Prison, so of Course He’s Getting Into Web3

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

Researchers Want to Use the Sun As a Giant Telescope to Look for Aliens

An epic task.

Elegant Chaos: Planetary Orbital Planes
From Quarks to Quasars

Elegant Chaos: Planetary Orbital Planes

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

House Rep Worried 23andMe Will Lead to Bioweapons That Kill Specific People Based on DNA

"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

Oops! Fusion Facility Keeps Failing to Recreate Last Year’s “Breakthrough” Record

They aren't even getting close.

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

China Takes Incredible Close Up Shot of Mars’ Moon Phobos

That is one lumpy moon!

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

The First Webb Photo Will Blow Your Wig Off If You Zoom Out

Astounding!

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

Russian Chess Robot Breaks Child’s Finger During Tournament

"This, of course, is bad."

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RX and Medicine

WHO Declares World Health Emergency Over Monkeypox

It's looking serious.

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

Google Fires Engineer Who Said Its Experimental AI Gained Sentience

It finally happened.

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

Chaotic Walrus Keeps Climbing on Small Boats and Sinking Them

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

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

Wind Turbine Catches on Fire, Creates Spiral-Shaped Smoke Pattern

"That was pretty insane to watch!"

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

Hyundai Busted Using Child Labor in Alabama

"Consumers should be outraged."

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

Robot Designed to Tunnel Through the Earth Incredibly Fast Using Plasma

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

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

Shockingly, Crypto Project That Promised 5% Returns Per Week Turned Out to Be a Ponzi Scheme

If it sounds too good to be true...

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

Tesla Semi Spotted With Huge Mysterious Mural on Its Side

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