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Photographer and astronomer Andrew McCarthy has shared a stunning new image he took of the International Space Station transiting in front of a sunlit Moon.
Moon

Amazing Shot Captures Space Station Flying Directly Across the Moon

"Possibly my new favorite shot of all time."

By Victor Tangermann

In a new tell-all memoir, a former second-in-command at NASA has aired a ton of the agency's dirty laundry — including about the man who now helms it.
NASA

Former NASA Official Says Many at Agency Deeply Oppose SpaceX

This beef goes back pretty far.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Good news for Bill Nye the Science Guy! He was married late last month, to best-selling author Liza Mundy — and they met in a truly beautiful way.
Future Society

Bill Nye Just Got Married, and Their Love Story Is Beautiful

And you'll never guess who officiated the wedding.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new study linked an inability to balance unsupported on one leg to a nearly-doubled risk of death within the next decade.
Studies

If You Can’t Stand on One Foot for Ten Seconds, Doctors Have Bad News

Okay, that's strange.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA is obviously a boys club, but according to a former high-ranking official, the agency is much more misogynist than we ever could have thought.
NASA

Former NASA Second-in-Command Says She Was Called Vile Sexist Slurs at Agency

"Many who disagreed with my views attacked me with vulgar, gendered language, depredation, and physical threats."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Suspended Google engineer Blake Lemoine says that the lawyer who had signed on to represent a "sentient" AI has been "scared off" the case.
Google

Google Engineer Says Lawyer Hired by “Sentient” AI Has Been “Scared Off” the Case

"He's just a small time civil rights attorney. When major firms started threatening him he started worrying that he'd get disbarred and backed off."

By Jon Christian

A startup claims to have created a solid-state battery that can allow an EV to cover 400 miles and then recharge from 10 to 80 percent in just 15 minutes.
Advanced Transport

Startup Says Amazing New Battery Lets EVs Drive 400 Miles, Recharge in 15 Minutes

Are solid-state batteries really the future of the EV?

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX's latest launch of its Falcon 9 rocket tinted the night sky a terrifying shade of red, The Washington Post reports, visible in long-exposure images taken by astrophotographers.
SpaceX

SpaceX Accused of Coloring Night Sky Red for Several Minutes

Okay, that's a little ominous.

By Victor Tangermann

A maritime tragedy! Sadly, the nearly-completed mega cruise ship Global Dream II will never take to the high seas, and instead will be scrapped.
Advanced Transport

World’s Largest Cruise Ship Headed Straight From Shipyard to Junkyard

A tragedy on the high seas!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Amazon publicly announced last week that it would launch drone-delivery Prime Air in Lockeford, California — news to many of the rural town's residents.
Drones

Local Residents Threaten to Shoot Amazon Drones Out of the Sky

"I think they’re going to wreck everything for us."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Canada has announced it is banning "harmful single-use plastics" to "keep them out of the environment," becoming the latest jurisdiction to do so.
Science & Energy

Canada Bans Single-Use Plastics, Including Bags and Straws

"We promised to ban harmful single-use plastics, and we’re keeping that promise."

By Victor Tangermann

The Food and Drug Administration is getting ready to boot the popular e-cigarette company out of the US market, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Developments

The FDA Is Reportedly About to Shut Down JUUL

Game over.

By Victor Tangermann

During a crucial Artemis 1 take-off test, the NASA's seemingly doomed Space Launch System sprung a leak in a hydrogen fuel valve.
Moon

NASA’s Super Expensive Mega Moon Rocket Starts Leaking During Test

Will this thing ever make it off the ground?!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers have come up with a new way to cause objects to levitate using sound waves alone, an impressive feat of mixed-reality technology.
Virtual Reality

Scientists Are Getting Better and Better at Levitating Objects With Sound Waves

"No eye-wear or tricks required, simply 3D shapes sharing the very space in which we live."

By Victor Tangermann

Reporter Kevin Collier had a bizarre encounter at this year's NFT NYC conference — not with rapper Calvin "Snoop Dogg" Broadus Jr, he says, but a lookalike.
NFTs

NFT Conference Allegedly Hires Snoop Dogg Impersonator to “Drum Up Excitement”

"The guy said actually that's an impersonator, legally can't say it's him..."

By Victor Tangermann

These might be major moves towards providing future users with a virtual reality system that human visual processes interpret as "real."
Virtual Reality

Zuckerberg Shows Off VR Headsets Designed to Be “Indistinguishable From Reality”

"I don’t think it’s going to be that long until we can create scenes with basically perfect fidelity."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Straight from the depths of AI hell hails Crungus — or somewhere like that, because until a few days ago, nobody knew this thing existed. 
Artificial Intelligence

AI Dreamed Up a Bizarre Nightmare Creature That Doesn’t Actually Exist… We Hope

What IS that thing???

By Noor Al-Sibai

A long-running human trial has shown that CRISPR gene editing could prove to be a highly effective way of treating two rare blood disorders.
Gene Editing

Patients Treated With CRISPR Still “Cured” Three Years Later

This is really promising.

By Victor Tangermann

Michio Kaku says that he often gives his students a particular experiment in which he has them calculate the probability that they wake up on Mars tomorrow.
Quantum Physics

Physicist Says There’s a Small Chance You’ll Wake Up on Mars Tomorrow Due to Quantum Physics

"There’s a tiny but calculable likelihood that our quantum wave will tunnel its way through space-time and wind up [on Mars]."

By Noor Al-Sibai

China is hoping to leapfrog NASA by becoming the first nation to return Mars samples, SpaceNews reports, and by July 2031.
Mars

China Announces Plan to Obtain Mars Rocks Two Years Before NASA

Watch out, NASA.

By Victor Tangermann