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Now, the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule sending the fourth operational crew to the International Space Station has a name as well.
SpaceX

SpaceX’s Latest Spacecraft Officially Has a Name

"Crew-4 will fly to the International Space Station in a new Dragon capsule named..."

Some Experts Are Starting to Suspect That Antidepressants Can Be Quite Dangerous
Health & Medicine

Some Experts Are Starting to Suspect That Antidepressants Can Be Quite Dangerous

They might be doing more harm than good in some cases.

The Boeing 747 that crashed in a horrifying 90 degree nosedive is is puzzling experts and investigators looking into the dramatic accident.
Advanced Transport

Experts Puzzled by Video of Jet Diving Five Miles Straight Into Ground

“It’s hard to get the airplane to do this.”

A new paper suggests that quantum technology could allow future electric vehicle owners to be able to charge their cars in just three minutes
Advanced Transport

Scientists Say Quantum Tech Will Charge Electric Cars as Fast as Gas Ones

They say it could cut charging time down to three minutes.

We finally have a date for SpaceX's long-awaited, first orbital test launch of its Starship spacecraft for "hopefully May."
Starship

Elon Musk Sets Tentative Date for First Starship Orbital Test Flight

Is it finally happening?

It looks like at least one corporation may finally have reached their ultimate frontier: advertising to us in our sleep. 
Neuroscience and Brain

Woman Says Coors Paid Her $1,000 to Successfully Inject Advertisements Into Her Dreams

"I had one [dream] where I was on a pogo stick jumping around with Coors products."

Researchers from the University of Minnesota (UM) developed the compound — dubbed GPHR-529 — as a form of non-hormonal male birth control.
Developments

Male Birth Control Pills Might Start Human Trials This Year

Scientists say the pill was 99 percent effective at preventing pregnancy in mice.

Ukraine claims Russian forces have looted and destroyed the lab that was used to monitor radiation levels of nuclear waste at the Chernobyl nuclear plant.
Science & Energy

Ukraine Says Russia Destroyed Lab That Monitors Chernobyl Radiation Levels

Soldiers also reportedly looted highly dangerous samples of nuclear waste.

A 34-year-old paralyzed man, who even lost the ability to move his eyes due to ALS disease, is able to communicate again through a brain implant.
Prosthetics and Devices

Scientists Say Brain Implant Let Completely Paralyzed Man Communicate Again

"I myself could not believe that this is possible."

Bad news, weed nerds — it looks like SpaceX's maiden voyage won't have a "420" joke after all.
Starship

SpaceX Fans Annoyed That Starship Orbital Launch Won’t Involve a Weed Joke

"Starship 420 will always be remembered."

Beijing hopes to allow tourists to visit its Tiangong space station in the next decade — but it all depends on how many people actually want to do it.
Off-World

China Says It’ll Let Tourists Pay to Vacation on Its Space Station

"It is not a matter of technology but of demand."

Six months ago, El Salvador made Bitcoin legal tender and began requiring all businesses take it — and according to actual Salvadorans, it's apparently been a disaster.
Bitcoin

El Salvador’s Bitcoin Gamble Has Become a Complete Mess

Where totalitarianism and Web3 inevitably meet in the middle.

The people behind a spinoff project based on the mega-popular Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFT collection are suing each other in federal court over who gets what.
NFTs

A Major NFT Project Is Falling Apart in a Storm of Lawsuits

Oof, this is messy!

Several forest fires have erupted near the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in Ukraine, which was taken over by Russian troops late last month.
Science & Energy

Russia Accused of Impeding Efforts to Fight Fires Near Seized Chernobyl Power Plant

That's not good.

No, it's not just you — men really do think they're smarter than everyone else.
Studies

Men Consistently Overestimate Their Own Intelligence, Scientists Find

Okay, that might explain a lot.

A Japanese startup wants you to be able to feel pain inside the metaverse through a wristband that electrically stimulates its wearer's muscles.
Metaverse

Startup Says Its Tech Can Inflict Actual Pain in the Metaverse

As if the metaverse wasn't painful enough already!

Extraterrestrials may have already made themselves evident to us by creating massive wormholes sophisticated enough to bend the laws of space and time.
Science & Energy

Astrophysicist Says We May Have Already Observed Wormholes Created by Alien Civilization

It could simply be a matter of "reanalyzing past data."

When you look into the void, the void, inevitably, also looks back at you.
Moon

NASA’s New Moon Rocket Is So Huge You Can See It from Space

This is what the astronauts are going to ride back to the Moon.

A British startup claims to have created a real "invisibility shield" that doesn't even need power to operate.
Science & Energy

Startup Says It’s Created an Actual “Invisibility Shield”

Oh, and you can buy one right now.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk showed off his incredibly awkward dance moves during the electric car company's grand opening of its Gigafactory in Berlin, Germany.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Busts Enthusiastic Dance Moves at Tesla Gigafactory Opening

"Danke Deutschland!!"