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According to NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, Americans get a skewed view of Russians and their culture — which led to some awkward movie nights in orbit.
Off-World

Things Apparently Got Awkward During Movie Night on the Space Station

"And I realized at one point that all the bad guys were Russians."

As if we needed anything else to worry about, a Pacific underwater volcano that is home to a bunch of sharks has erupted.
NASA

Great, NASA Says an Underwater Shark Volcano Has Erupted

NASA: "You’ve heard of sharknado, now get ready for sharkcano."

An ex-oil consultant had harsh words for her former employer after leaving the company over its plans to expand fossil fuel extraction.
Environment

Fossil Fuel Consultant Quits In Disgust, Tired of Destroying Environment

Oh, and she blasted the company in an email to a thousand former coworkers.

Millionaires are publicly protesting the gathering of the WEF in Davos, demanding that the rich need to be taxed more in order to tackle inequality.
Future Society

Millionaires Protest, Demanding to Pay More Taxes

"Tax me, tax the rich."

Italian Parmigiano Reggiano cheesemakers are inserting high-tech computer chips into the rinds of their cheese wheels to fight cheese crime.
Blockchain

Cheesemakers Embedding Tiny Tracking Chips in Parmesan

Do you know where that's been?

VC funded startup Lonestar Data Holdings wants to store data in datacenters inside the hollow lava tubes suspected to line the surface of the Moon.
Moon

Startup Announces Plans to Bury Server Farm on the Moon

That's one place to put it.

After spending $12,000 on Floyd Mayweather-endorsed NFTs that are now worthless, one Florida man is having major buyer's remorse.
NFTs

Florida Man Horrified When NFTs He Bought Because Floyd Mayweather Told Him to Crater in Value

“This basically financially crippled me."

Monkeypox Is Spreading Through Sex, WHO Disease Specialist Says
Developments

Monkeypox Is Spreading Through Sex, WHO Disease Specialist Says

"What seems to be happening now is that it has got into the population as a sexual form, as a genital form..."

The net worth of Tesla CEO Elon Musk has fallen by staggering amounts —  just over $69 billion year to date, according to Bloomberg's Billionaire Index.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Has Officially Lost $69 Billion This Year

Nice.

A pair of researchers suggest a "fifth force" could be arranging smaller galaxies into disk shapes, while still considering the existence of dark matter.
Science & Energy

Scientists Say Space Is Filled With Invisible Walls

Could "symmetrons" explain the existence of dark matter?

Tesla owner Jamil Jutha had only owned his Model Y for eight months before it caught on fire Friday and briefly trapped him inside.
Future Society

Tesla Driver Briefly Trapped in Burning Car, Kicks Out Window

"The doors wouldn't open."

Following this week's report that monkeypox was confirmed in the US and countries in Europe President Joe Biden said it's a concern if it spreads globally.
Developments

Joe Biden is Worried About Monkeypox

"It would be consequential."

A Texas toddler ordered 31 McDonald's cheeseburgers on his mom's phone from DoorDash. The kid went viral on Facebook for giving them away for free.
Future Society

Kid Steals Phone, Orders 31 Cheeseburgers, Leaves Huge Tip

We're lovin' it.

That "door" on Mars is a rock formation on Mount Sharp and it's hilariously small. A new panorama taken by the Curiosity rover shows more detail.
Mars

It Turns Out That “Door” on Mars Is Hilariously Tiny

It's more like a dog door.

Researchers say issues with the Hubble Constant could be explained by a "mirror world" invisible to us except through gravitational impact on our cosmos.
Future Society

Scientists Say There May Be a “Mirror World” to Our Own

Come again?

After years of delay and troubleshooting, Boeing finally docked its space taxi, Starliner, to the International Space Station with 800 pounds of cargo.
Off-World

Astronauts Enter Starliner After It Finally Docks To Space Station

They actually pulled it off.

Explorerers in China found a massive sinkhole that has an entire ancient forest inside. It could hold species previously not discovered.
Climate Change

Scientists Discover Ancient Forest at Bottom of Gigantic Sinkhole

Giant trees and new species, oh my.

Researchers released a new image of M87*, a black hole photographed in 2019 by the Event Horizon Telescope -- and it doesn't match the first one.
Science & Energy

Bad News! That Image of a Black Hole Might Be Totally Screwed Up

The last image was a "mistake," they say.

One family says their child was left with hearing damage after the boy's Apple AirPods blasted an Amber alert in his ears and filed a lawsuit for damages.
Prosthetics and Devices

Lawsuit Claims Apple AirPods Ruptured a Child’s Eardrums

A grim claim!

Insider dropped an alarming story today reporting that SpaceX paid one of its employees $250,000 to keep quiet about improper sexual advances from Musk.
SpaceX

SpaceX Reportedly Paid $250,000 to Silence Sexual Allegations Against Elon Musk

“Before the incident, she regarded Mr. Musk as a person to look up to."