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Hacktivist group Anonymous claimed to have taken down websites connected to the Russian government including state sponsored news website Russia Today.
Hacking

Hacker Group Anonymous Says It’s Taking Down Russian State Sites

Grab your Guy Fawkes mask, because Anonymous is back!

"If you block cooperation with us, who will save the ISS from uncontrolled deorbiting and falling into the United States," he wrote.
Off-World

Head of Russian Space Program Appears to Threaten to Smash US With Space Debris

This is completely unhinged.

With its unprovoked invasion of a European nation, Russia has chosen a scorched-Earth approach — and its space program will likely suffer the consequences.
NASA

There’s a Reason NASA Doesn’t Have to Submit to Russia: SpaceX

If it weren't for Crew Dragon, NASA may have been forced to abandon the International Space Station.

A team of scientists successfully took control over a Venus Flytrap, a cultivated carnivorous plant, by implanting a tiny microchip in it.
Computers

Scientists Control Venus Flytrap With Implanted Computer Brain

Yep, there's video.

Need a reminder that the world's not all bad? Here's a super cute photo involving a NASA space shuttle.
NASA

Man Boops Snoot of NASA Space Shuttle

He's just a little guy!

It appears that nobody knows exactly what is going on with that rocket that's set to crash into the moon.
Moon

Experts Say China Is Probably Lying About the Rocket Crashing Into the Moon

What is the truth?!

NASA has announced that operations aboard the space station will proceed as usual despite the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
NASA

NASA Says Everything Is Perfectly Chill on the Space Station Despite the, Uh, War

Things have got to be a little awkward up there, right?

A researcher posing as a 13-year-old child was able to gain access to a virtual strip club via a metaverse app called VRChat.
Metaverse

Turns Out It’s Really Easy for Kids to Visit Sex Clubs in the Metaverse

"It's children being exposed to entirely inappropriate, really incredibly harmful experiences."

Another day, another bad crypto take — but with war brewing in Ukraine, this one really takes the cake. 
Cryptocurrency

Crypto Dude Mocked for Shockingly Tone Deaf Post About Ukraine Invasion

This is absolutely not the time for crypto nonsense.

As tensions mount with Russia, some are beginning to fear that geopolitical conflict might pose an existential threat to the International Space Station.
Off-World

Expert: No, Russia Isn’t Going to Pull Its Modules to Sabotage the ISS

"In theory, it’d be possible to detach — but I think it’s very unlikely to happen."

Ukraine’s president has announced that Russian troops are moving towards the Chernobyl — and could risk damaging the sealed off nuclear reactor.
Future Society

Ukraine Says Russia Is Trying to Seize Chernobyl’s Melted Down Nuclear Reactor

One advisor is warning that an attack could lead to "radioactive nuclear dust" being "spread over the territory."

Two gigantic clusters of galaxies smashed into each other around a billion years ago — and the collision's shockwaves spread so far that they absolutely dwarf our own galaxy.
Science & Energy

Amazing Image Shows Brutal Shockwave Larger Than Our Entire Galaxy

It makes your head spin.

Sea ice in Antarctica has officially reached a record low, according to the latest findings from the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
Climate Change

Welp, Scientists Say Antarctic Sea Ice Is at a Record Low

That’s not good.

What if we told you that you could literally build buildings out of plastic bags and water bottles?
Science & Energy

Startup Turns “Unrecyclable” Plastic Into Giant, Indestructible Construction Bricks

This sounds mildly ingenious.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently said that he’d be willing to put aside his feud with Biden if he was ever invited to the White House.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Promises He Won’t Make a Scene If Invited to the White House

"They have nothing to worry about. I would do the right thing."

Scientists from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia have managed to regrow bone by firing high-frequency sound waves at stem cells.
Developments

Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out How to Grow New Bone Using Sound Waves

They can grow new bone from a patient's own cells.

Virgin Galactic announced that is has lost an astonishing $1 billion in 2020 and 2021, a colossal figure, given it made only $3.5 million in those years.
Off-World

Virgin Galactic Lost an Absolutely Staggering Amount of Money Last Year

This is grim news for the commercial spaceflight industry.

A few users who got scammed with the hoax "Cool Kitten" NFTs decided to get a little revenge on their swindlers with a coup.
NFTs

A Bunch of People Who Got Scammed by an NFT Project Took Sweet Revenge

Here’s how they pulled it off.

A Spanish company is pouring tens of millions of dollars into becoming the world's first commercial octopus farm.
Science & Energy

Critics Horrified by World’s First Octopus Farm

"Octopus farming would increase, not alleviate, pressure on wild aquatic animals."

It shouldn't come as a surprise that Ja Rule, rapper and grifter behind the Fyre Festival fiasco, is trying to get into the NFT game.
NFTs

Of Course the Guy Behind Fyre Fest Is Selling NFTs Now

Do you trust him?