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Daniel Gatinel, a French ophthalmologist, took an MRI of a healthy patient rubbing their eyes to see if it might cause certain eye conditions.
Developments

It might even cause a terrible eye condition.

It appears that billionaire Jeff Bezos may have a sense of humor after tweeting a "threat" at Leonardo DiCaprio.
Jeff Bezos

"Leo, come over here, I want to show you something..."

While children in the US are taught what to eat, many of them never actually find out where the food they eat on a daily basis actually comes from.
Science & Energy

We're doomed.

During the descent home, one of the Crew Dragon capsule's four parachutes was slow to deploy by a few seconds — adding last second drama to the mission.
Crew Dragon

But NASA says that it was totally fine.

China's military has built mockups of US Navy aircraft carriers and other warships, seemingly in order to use them as target practice, Reuters reports. 
Robots and Machines

That's not great.

An innovator in early AR systems has a dire prediction: the metaverse could destroy reality as we know it.
Metaverse

Welcome to a real life cyberpunk nightmare.

After Elon Musk saying that he would sell off his shares in the electric car company based on a Twitter poll, stock prices for Tesla dropped on Monday.
Tesla

Well, that was predictable.

A grisly Taser immolation raises deep questions about law enforcement's wielding of high tech weaponry against the public.
Future Society

How "nonlethal" are stun guns, really?

ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet was able to follow along with this year's super intense solar storm from the ISS, taking pictures of breathtaking auroras.
Off-World

We've never seen anything quite like this.

Americans bought roughly half a million e-bikes in 2020. For comparison, customers bought just 231,000 electric cars during that same time period.
Advanced Transport

This could change the way we look at the future of commuting.

SpaceX Workers Spotted Doing Pullups Near Top of Mechazilla Tower
SpaceX

Talk about a workout with a view!

Astronomers have been detecting far more gravitational wave events than ever before, observing 35 events in a span of just four months.
Science & Energy

You know what happens when two black holes collide?

Texas Senator Ted Cruz decided to take aim at none other than beloved children's TV character Big Bird for getting the COVID vaccine.
Developments

"Government propaganda... for your 5 year old!"

Tesla recently recalled vehicles over its disastrous Full Self-Driving software update. The timing couldn't have been worse.
Self-Driving Vehicles

"He was screaming ‘Do not use it! Do not use it!'"

Former NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman says he feared drowning during a spacewalk, when a malfunction threatened to fill his spacesuit helmet with water.
NASA

"I was less than thrilled at the thought of becoming the first astronaut to drown during a spacewalk."

Tesla CEO Elon Musk waded into tax discourse this weekend, saying that he'd sell $21 billion in Tesla stock depending on the results of a Twitter poll.
Elon Musk

"I will abide by the results of this poll, whichever way it goes."

Once the James Webb Space Telescope got to an ESA spaceport, officials donned protective gear and took it out of its enormous box.
James Webb Space Telescope

Extroardinary.

A NASA astronaut stationed aboard the ISS acknowledged this week that the crew of her SpaceX return journey will need to wear diapers.
NASA

That's one way to put it.

An NFT collector got mad that somebody on Twitter was saving their NFT, a hilarious exchange that cuts to the core of a very nuanced debate.
Cryptocurrency

"You are mad that you don't own the art that I own. Delete that screenshot."

A viral TikTok is making the rounds about engineer David Miller retelling a rather unusual story: how he accidentally got a job at NASA.
NASA

"I worked on a lot of stuff that went up to the station."