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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.

By Tony Ho Tran

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.

By Victor Tangermann

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."

By Victor Tangermann

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."

By Noor Al-Sibai

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."

By Tony Ho Tran

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.

By Noor Al-Sibai

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!

By Noor Al-Sibai

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.

By Victor Tangermann

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.

By Noor Al-Sibai

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!

By Victor Tangermann

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."

By Victor Tangermann

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.

By Noor Al-Sibai

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.

By Victor Tangermann

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!!"

By Victor Tangermann

Both the Earth's North and South poles in the Arctic and Antarctica are experiencing unprecedented warming and soaring temperatures this week.
Climate Change

Something Is Up With Earth’s North and South Poles

Things are not okay.

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The nightmare neural networks are back at it again — and this time, they're taking requests.
Artificial Intelligence

Neural Network Twitter Bot Creates Whatever Delights Or Nightmares Its Fans Force Upon It

Do androids dream of electric creeps?

By Noor Al-Sibai

UN Taking Carbon Removal Tech Very, Very Seriously in New Report
Climate Change

UN Taking Carbon Removal Tech Very, Very Seriously in New Report

It will counter the "unremitting doom and gloom" of the last UN climate report.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Russia is officially labelling Meta, the parent company of both Facebook and Instagram, as an extremist organization, according to state news network TASS.
Future Society

Russian Court Rules Facebook and Instagram as “Extremist”

"The ruling is to come into effect immediately."

By Victor Tangermann

Russia is reportedly considering withdrawing from diplomacy with the United States — a move that threatens the International Space Station's existence.
Off-World

The ISS: Possibly the ‘Last Formal Diplomatic Link’ of U.S. and Russia

How the ISS is quickly becoming the last, dangling thread of U.S. and Russian relations.

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is looking to arrest a driver, who attempted to make a rented Tesla Model S fly over the weekend.
Tesla

Crook Tries to Make Tesla Model S Fly, Crashes Into Parked Cars Instead

He forgot to put it in Full Self-Flying mode.

By Victor Tangermann