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The rise of  “genetic paparazzi” is imminent, and courts are poorly ill-equipped to deal with the potential consequences of celebrity DNA theft.
DNA

Professors Warn That Creeps Might Start Stealing DNA From Celebs For Dark Purposes

"Imagine being able to produce a child with your favorite movie star using the DNA from a strand of hair or flake of skin."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk tells customers not to use Tesla's recirculation mode because it spikes carbon dioxide levels in the car cabin.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Alarmed by Tesla Feature That Spikes CO2 Levels Inside Vehicle

What is going on with Tesla?

By Lonnie Lee Hood

NASA's ultra expensive James Webb Space Telescope has already had to endure a dust-sized micrometeoroid impacting with one of its primary mirror segments.
James Webb Space Telescope

The James Webb Was Struck by a Small Meteoroid, NASA Says

It's not dead yet — but it's not good news.

By Victor Tangermann

A viral video showing an explosion at an aluminum factory that miraculously left no one injured is cause for a lot of speculation and jokes.
Science & Energy

Watch a Factory Descend Into a Vision of Hell Within One Minute

Well, that escalated quickly.

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's development of its SLS has been mired in budget overruns and many years of delays, costing it tens of billions of dollars over the last eleven years.
NASA

Something Very Bad Might Be About to Go Down at NASA

"This is utterly indefensible and is totally on NASA regardless of how contractors screwed up."

By Victor Tangermann

Nobody can figure out whether or not Seth Green still owns the intellectual property from his stolen Bored Ape — but the courts may soon figure it out.
NFTs

Lawyers Ponder Whether Stealing an NFT Should Give You Legal Rights to It

It's a brave new world.

By Noor Al-Sibai

OnlyFans says it isn't experiencing subscriber losses like Netflix is, which reported the first paid customer drop in a decade.
Future Society

OnlyFans Taunts Netflix, Says Its Subscriber Numbers Are Just Fine

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Climate change is causing Utah's Great Salt Lake to continue to shrink, paving the way for an environmental catastrophe of unprecedented proportions.
Climate Change

Experts Warn of Toxic Arsenic Clouds as Great Salt Lake Dries Up

"We have this potential environmental nuclear bomb..."

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has unknowingly been traveling with a pet rock companion since at least early February, covering over five miles.
Mars

There’s a Rock Stuck in the Mars Rover’s Wheel, NASA Complains

"We might confuse a future Mars geologist who finds it out of place!"

By Victor Tangermann

An Indiana woman allegedly told someone that she used an Apple AirTag to stalk a man and kill him because he was cheating on her.
Future Society

Woman Arrested for Murdering Boyfriend After Tracking Him With Apple AirTag

A grim saga.

By Noor Al-Sibai

SpaceX's imminent cargo launch has been delayed until at least the end of June because, well, the Dragon spacecraft may be leaking fuel.
NASA

NASA Alarmed by SpaceX Spacecraft Seemingly Leaking Fuel

This doesn't seem good at all!

By Noor Al-Sibai

Chinese scientists are reported to have developed a fully-automated, pig-cloning robot, and the AI-powered bot is apparently way more efficient than humans.
Future Society

China Now Producing Cloned Pigs Using Only Robots

This could change world food systems.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a new piece for Big Think, Hartsfield argues that massive particle accelerators simply aren't worth the colossal amounts of money and effort.
Physics

Physicist Begs Colleagues Not to Build Another Large Hadron Collider

Tell us how you really feel!

By Victor Tangermann

Neuroscientists are positing that issues with the brain's own waste removal system may be the root cause of Alzheimer's disease.
Neuroscience and Brain

“Poisonous Flowers” in Brain May Cause Alzheimer’s, Scientists Say

These strange structures are beautiful... and deadly.

By Noor Al-Sibai

The nation's leading stungun maker is pulling plans to put Taser drones in schools, but that wasn't enough for most its ethics board, which has resigned.
Ethics

Most of Company’s Ethics Board Resigns in Disgust Over Taser-Wielding Drones

"The company has fundamentally failed to embrace the values that we have tried to instill."

By Noor Al-Sibai

An early Tesla Cybertruck prototype made a rare public appearance during the commissioning ceremony of the car company's Megapack project in California.
Tesla

Tesla Shows Off Cybertruck, But There Are a Bunch of Wires Ripped Out of the Steering Wheel for Some Reason

That's... messy.

By Victor Tangermann

Inventor Unveils Flying Motorcycle Powered by Eight Jet Engines
Advanced Transport

Inventor Unveils Flying Motorcycle Powered by Eight Jet Engines

Hell yeah.

By Victor Tangermann

Venus may have once been a life-supporting system, and NASA is looking to shed light on how Earth's "twin" came to be — and how, more sinisterly, it died.
NASA

NASA Plotting Journey Through the Hellish Atmosphere of Venus

"Flying analytical chemistry laboratory."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Roscosmos is reportedly trying to gain control over a German telescope currently orbiting the Earth almost a million miles away.
Off-World

Russia Reportedly Trying to Hijack Space Telescope Currently Orbiting Earth

That's one way to do it!

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars helicopter has run into a bit of trouble 28 successful flights and well over an entire dusty Earth year into its mission on the Red Planet.
Mars

Navigation Sensor on Mars Helicopter Dead, NASA Says

The team will have to get creative.

By Victor Tangermann