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A camera mounted inside the JET fusion reactor recorded an amazing video of glowing plasma swirling during this week's record experiment. 
Energy

Woah.

The team from McGill University designed a rocket system that uses a 10-meter wide laser array on Earth to power up an orbiting spacecraft.
Advanced Transport

It could whip a spacecraft to Mars in just 45 days.

Meta warned this week that it would shut down Facebook and Instagram in Europe if it didn't agree on new data protection rules. Lawmakers were delighted.
Future Society

"I can confirm that life would be very good without Facebook."

SpaceX has hooked up the pair of massive "chopsticks" of its 460-foot "Mechazilla" tower to its latest Starship prototype dubbed Ship 20.
Starship

"It's chopstick time!"

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency recently developed and tested a new Black Hawk helicopter that can fly with no one inside it.
DARPA

They say it can be easily fitted into existing aircraft.

A gaggle of troublesome turkeys have laid siege to NASA's Ames Center in Mountain View, California.
NASA

It's a fowl situation.

Scientists at the UK-based JET lab have smashed a fusion energy record for the first time in 25 years, producing 59 megajoules of energy over five seconds.
Energy

"We've demonstrated that we can create a mini star inside of our machine and hold it..."

A solar storm killed 40 of 49 Starlink satellites launched by Elon Musk's SpaceX last week after atmospheric drag doomed them to deorbit.
SpaceX

Sorry, Elon.

Meet Breanne Rohloff, an engineer for NASA contractor Jacobs who moves rockets around at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in a giant crawler.
NASA

"We're like the Space Center's Uber for rockets."

President Joe Biden's top science advisor Eric Lander resigned Monday night after admitting that he abused employees.
Cancer

"Dr. Lander’s conduct is disturbing."

It's 2022, so naturally, the feds have brought down a Bitcoin-laundering power couple — one half of whom is a crypto wallet CEO who is also an extremely bad rapper.
Bitcoin

"The infamous Crocodile of Wall Street strikes again!"

Investors are buying exclusive rights to simple strings of emojis called "Yats" by early adopters — for some reason we can't figure out.
NFTs

Paris Hilton and Lil Wayne have already bought them.

An international team of researchers have developed the synthetic human tooth enamel that they say outperforms the real thing.
Developments

Nine out of 10 dentists will probably recommend it.

A team of astronomers have used the Murchison Widefield Array, a massive network of over 4,000 antennas in the Australian desert, to look for aliens.
Exobiology

Don't give up that easily!

Tesla CEO and Terrible Boss Elon Musk thinks there’s just too much bad news out there these days — and it’s the hateful media’s fault.
Elon Musk

Pot, meet kettle.

A vandal has seemingly chopped off the cables to all eight stalls of a brand new Tesla Supercharger station in Oakhurt, California.
Tesla

Horrifying!

Child safety experts are sounding the alarm on the metaverse saying that it will attract sexual predators preying on kids using apps such as Horizon Worlds.
Metaverse

"They’ll go there first to take advantage of the fact that it is a safe ground for them to abuse or groom kids."

The village of Fairbourne in Gwynedd, in North Wales, is going to be below sea level by 2054, but that isn't soaring housing and vacation rental prices.
Climate Change

Why would you buy a doomed house?

Shoot magic energy lasers out of your fingers with augmented reality experiment that game enthusiast and HoloForge Interactive CTO Olivier Goguel created.
Artificial Intelligence

Who DOESN'T want magic laser hands!?

Union Pacific purchased 20 battery-powered locomotives for use in rail yards while other battery-powered train cars are getting to work.
Advanced Transport

That's a big battery!