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The United Nations Environment Program is warning that we are facing a "sand crisis" unless we put limits on and start regulating the extraction of sand.
Science & Energy

It's the second most used resource worldwide after water — and we're blowing through it.

Right-wing and Nazi Twitter accounts previously banned are returning to the platform following the news Tesla CEO Elon Musk is buying the company.
Future Society

That's a weird thing to say!

Dr. Fauci Says the “Pandemic Phase” of COVID Is Over, Then Says Pandemic Is Actually Still Happening
Developments

Why are officials still struggling so hard to communicate basic details about the coronavirus?

Mars Helicopter Flies Over NASA Wreckage
Mars

What an amazing view!

According to a leaked document obtained by Motherboard, Facebook has no idea where the data it collects goes — or what it's even doing with it.
Data Privacy

Uh, that doesn't seem good!

According to purchase terms filed with the SEC, Tesla CEO Elon Musk can't insult Twitter or its representatives if he wants the $46.5 billion sale to work.
Elon Musk

Wait, isn't that infringing his free speech?

A Japanese company is taking service robotics to a whole new level with their humanoid power line-fixing robot.
Robotics

And you control it with a VR setup!

People who think evolution is a bunch of academic hogwash are, per a new study, much more likely to be bigoted.
Future Society

"Our findings were consistent across cultural, religious, and national contexts..."

A hack used a crypto exploit to steal $1 million worth of cryptocurrency but self-destructed the contract and lost the currency permanently.
Cryptocurrency

That's gotta sting.

Scientists have discovered the building blocks of DNA in meteorites that landed in North America and Australia, Reuters reports.
Off-World

The building blocks of life may have come from outer space.

Firebrand ex-astronaut Scott Kelly is again assailing Russia amid the country's invasion of neighboring Ukraine.
NASA

"And I know this because some of them have told me this."

While Tesla CEO Elon Musk could soon add Twitter to his already lengthy list of companies, his other big ventures are feeling the squeeze.
Elon Musk

Ouch.

AI Generates Painting of Actual “Burger King” and There’s a Terrifying Hunger in His Eye
Artificial Intelligence

All hail the true Burger King.

One of the discoverers of CRISPR gene-editing, a groundbreaking new method to engineer genes, believes we could use the technique to tackle climate change.
Climate Change

Gene editing could allow them to capture more carbon dioxide.

The United Nations has issued yet another terrifying report about our near future — and readers, we're not in for a good time. 
Climate Change

Nice job, people!

Critics Point Out That Elon Musk Actually Kinda Hates Free Speech
Elon Musk

An inconvenient truth.

A top-secret superyacht confessional reveals the Bond-esque lifestyles of the rich and the famous who own these luxury vessels.
Energy

Is this epic?

Musk's Twitter buy raises the inevitable question of why he's pouring resources in something as earthbound as a messy, controversial social media platform.
Mars

How's this helping anyone get to Mars?

The United Nations' atomic watchdog is warning that radiation levels at Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear disaster site are "abnormal" and have been rising.
Science & Energy

That's not good.

To the surprise of absolutely no one, Twitter workers are apparently really upset that Elon Musk is now their employer. 
Future Society

"The news today is so crazy I literally forgot I have COVID."