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The Parker Solar Probe flew through the Sun’s atmosphere and dipped below the upper part of its atmosphere known as the corona.
NASA

The probe's data gives NASA insight into previously unobservable phenomena.

New research suggests that gender-affirming hormone therapy is directly connected to lower rates of depression and suicide attempts in transgender youths.
Health & Medicine

It also reduces rates of suicide attempts in young transgender people.

In Red Bull-sponsored stunt news, a daredevil wingsuit pilot became the first person to fly in and back out of an active volcano.
Advanced Transport

"Fear is a very positive thing."

Elon Musk tweeted a meme mocking NFT lovers this week, just after saying he'd use Doge Coin and after a previous attack against DAO users.
Elon Musk

Not funny, Elon.

Meta's virtual reality platform Horizon Worlds has barely made it out to the public and beta testers are already being sexually harassed.
Metaverse

Meta claims users just weren't using it right.

"I came to the US with no money and graduated with over $100k in debt, despite scholarships and working 2 jobs while at school," Musk wrote.
Elon Musk

He's just like us... except that he's the richest man on Earth.

Record breaking, hurricane-force storms blew across the Midwest on Wednesday destroying homes and causing more than half a million power outages.
Climate Change

"This is going to be our new normal."

NASA’s Probe Took a Video as It “Touched the Sun” and Wow
Science & Energy

It was "like flying into the eye of a storm."

Cryptocurrency prices went completely nuts on several crypto exchanges on Tuesday, spiking to crazy new heights. The price of Bitcoin hit $789 billion.
Future Society

"I was expecting to be landed on the Moon not the farthest star in universe."

A Japanese billionaire who spent tens of millions of dollars to take a trip to the International Space Station doesn't care that he can only do so because he's obscenely wealthy.
Future Society

I'll have what he's having.

The US Navy has fired a laser weapon at a floating target in the Mideast, destroying it, the Associated Press reports.
Robots and Machines

The goal is to fend off "bomb-laden drone boats."

With the help of the European Space Agency's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, scientists discovered a huge deposit of water at the bottom of a Martian canyon.
Science & Energy

The region is "packed full of water — far more water than we expected."

Vaccine Successfully Stalls Elements of Aging in Mice
Studies

Like the Night of the Living Dead, but at the molecular level.

Princeton Researchers Create Terrifying VR Simulation of Nuke Attack to Train US Officials
Virtual Reality

"You walk into that simulation and come out a changed person."

On Tuesday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk raged at Senator Elizabeth Warren after she posted a tweet calling on the billionaire to "actually pay taxes."
Elon Musk

"Please don’t call the manager on me, Senator Karen."

The local police department in Fremont, California has reported a "suspicious death" that occurred on December 13 in the parking lot of Tesla's factory.
Tesla

The Tesla worker "had just finished a shift" and was shot in the parking lot.

NASA delayed the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope on Tuesday after its engineers discovered a communications glitch.
James Webb Space Telescope

The telescope is now set to launch no earlier than December 24.

Dogecoin prices spiked on Tuesday after Elon Musk announced that Tesla would be accepting the crypto in their merch store.
Elon Musk

He could be laying the groundwork for accepting Doge for car payments.

A doctor has affirmed what every Sex and the City fan suspected after watching the end to the first episode of "And Just Like That...".
Developments

And just like that... a TV show took liberties with medical science.

Both The Verge and The Washington Post have published stories today of SpaceX and Tesla employees coming forward alleging rampant sexual harassment.
Future Society

Misogyny and sexual harassment appear to run rampant at both Tesla and SpaceX.