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From Quarks to Quasars

Meet The Assassin Bug

By Futurism

At this point, you really gotta wonder whether investing in cryptocurrencies is even worth it. 
Hacking

Wildly Overconfident Crypto.com Bros Admit That Hackers Stole $30 Million of Its Money

At which point will enough be enough?

By Noor Al-Sibai

The CIA has announced that Havana syndrome is, in fact, not due to Russian attacks.
Health & Medicine

Twitter Roasts Feds After CIA Admits Havana Syndrome is Fake After All

Maybe the real Havana syndrome was the friends we made along the way.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Mass extinction events have ravaged life on Earth at least five times over the last 450 million years or so — and we're now experiencing the sixth.
Science & Energy

A Mass Extinction Has Already Started, Scientists Say

"We don't think there's a positive ending; we think it's kind of a disaster."

By Victor Tangermann

Getting a closer look at interstellar rock 'Oumuamua could forever change the way we understand the universe around us, scientists argue.
Off-World

Scientists Propose Mission to Catch Up With Mysterious Interstellar Object

It would take around 26 years.

By Victor Tangermann

Jeff Bezos has backed anti-aging startup Alto Labs, which has recently hired former chief scientific officer of GlaxoSmithKline Hal Barron as its CEO.
Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Startup Hires Top Scientist to Defeat Death

He'll help lead the company in its mission to "reverse disease."

By Tony Ho Tran

There’s Something Weirdly Sexual About the Tom Cruise Space Station
Future Society

There’s Something Weirdly Sexual About the Tom Cruise Space Station

The vibrations are coming from inside the space station film studio.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Months after El Salvador announced that it would accept bitcoin as legal tender, the country has found itself on the verge of economic collapse yet again.
Bitcoin

An Entire Country Switched to Bitcoin and Now Its Economy Is Floundering

Like Bitcoin itself, El Salvador isn’t doing so hot right now.

By Tony Ho Tran

The Perseverance rover found evidence of this mysterious coloring on rocks at almost every site the craft has visited on Mars.
Mars

Scientists Puzzled by Purple Coating on Mars Rocks

"I don’t really have a good answer for you."

By Tony Ho Tran

Chinese researchers published a paper today in Science Robotics that revealed new data about the lunar surface gathered by the Yutu-2 rover.
Moon

The Moon’s Backside Is Surprisingly Sticky, China’s Rover Finds

It also found that there were a lot more holes on its backside, too.

By Tony Ho Tran

A startup called Parallel Systems, founded by a team of former SpaceX engineers, wants to allow autonomous shipping containers to zip along railroads.
Advanced Transport

Former SpaceX Engineers Build Electric Train Car That Doesn’t Need a Locomotive

"The problem now is that you have the three-mile-long train. Where do you park a train that big?"

By Victor Tangermann

In the era of COVID-19, governments conducting their business over Zoom is par for the course — and, naturally, so is Zoom-bombing porn into them. 
Hacking

Hackers Force Nobel Prize Winning Physicist to Watching Hentai

What's the Italian for "hentai"?

By Noor Al-Sibai

This just in: Elon Musk is going to build the world's first sentient robots.
Tesla

Elon Musk Says Tesla Robots Could Achieve AGI

"Decentralized control of the robots will be critical."

By Noor Al-Sibai

A 45-year-old American man landed himself in the hospital after his partner accidentally injected his penis with insulation foam to cure his impotance.
Developments

Man Horribly Injures Penis After Injecting It with Insulation Foam

He was trying to cure his erectile dysfunction.

By Tony Ho Tran

A new supercut video demonstrates that Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been promising that Teslas will drive themselves next year — every year since 2014.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Watch Elon Musk Promise Self-Driving Cars “Next Year” Every Year Since 2014

Will 2022 really be the year?

By Victor Tangermann

It turns out that AI chatbots may be more like us than we care to think about. 
Artificial Intelligence

Advanced AIs Exhibiting Depression and Addiction, Scientists Say

Just wait till you hear about where these bots were trained.

By Noor Al-Sibai

A pizza-making robot startup experienced a bit of a cheesy mishap: a prototype of the machine sprayed cheese everywhere across the street from SpaceX HQ.
Robotics

Guy Quits SpaceX, Creates Pizza Making Robot That “Dumped Melted Cheese Everywhere”

"It was much cheaper than crashing a rocket to gain insight into our machine."

By Victor Tangermann

The volcanic eruption in Tonga was so violent, the force of the explosion was more than 500 times as powerful as the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
Science & Energy

Tonga Eruption Was 500 Times Stronger Than an Atomic Bomb

"We come up with a number that's around ten megatons of TNT equivalent."

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk tweeted that people stalking his location has become a “security issue” after a weekend of rumors that he would be visiting Tesla’s Gigafactory.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says People Stalking His Location Have Become a “Security Issue”

“We want to keep Elon and his family safe."

By Tony Ho Tran

It's 2022, so really, there's no reason you shouldn't be able to buy a black diamond from space in crypto, right?
Off-World

A Huge Black Diamond From Space Is Officially Going on Sale

Sure, why the hell not.

By Noor Al-Sibai