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SpaceX will launch a digital billboard into space. But it's so small that you'll never be able to notice that it's up there.
SpaceX

That SpaceX Orbital Billboard Is So Small You’ll Never See It

The satellite is way smaller than your TV.

By Dan Robitzski

Juno has created a gorgeous infrared map of Jupiter's moon Ganymede during a flyby last month, including the first-ever glimpse of its north polar region.
Moon

NASA’s Juno Probe Creates Stunning Map of Jupiter’s Largest Moon

It's so big, it has its own magnetic field.

By Victor Tangermann

Things are getting so bad for Boeing's development of its Starliner spacecraft, even Russia's space agency Roscosmos is offering to help out.
Boeing

Russia Mocks Boeing, Offering to Fix Its Broken Starliner Spacecraft

From Russia with love.

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists developed a rudimentary active camouflage system that adjusts color in real-time and tested it on a tiny chameleon robot.
Robotics

Scientists Create Chameleon Robot That Can Blend in With Its Surroundings

Watch it automatically change color as it wriggles across different surfaces.

By Dan Robitzski

AI development firm OpenAI just revealed Codex, a tool that can take commands written in English and turn them into programming.
OpenAI

OpenAI’s New Algorithm Can Turn Written Commands Into Code

"We see this as a tool to multiply programmers."

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese State News Agency Floods Social Media With Anti-America COVID Memes
Future Society

Chinese State News Agency Floods Social Media With Anti-America COVID Memes

These memes are unintentionally hilarious — and not entirely wrong, either.

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk offered to help design a spacesuit for NASA's upcoming crewed missions to the Moon. But will SpaceX be able to deliver by 2024?
NASA

Elon Musk Offers to Make Spacesuits for NASA

"SpaceX could do it if need be."

By Victor Tangermann

A new glass called AM-III is so hard it can scratch the surface of diamonds and could be used in new ultra-sturdy solar panels.
Science & Energy

Scientists Create Glass That’s as Strong as a Diamond

AM-III is "superior to other known strongest materials."

By Dan Robitzski

As wildfires blaze through the drought-stricken American west, government agencies at all levels can't attract enough recruits to batle them.
Science & Energy

There Are So Many Wildfires That the US Can’t Find Enough Firefighters

Low pay and a horrific wildfire season aren't exactly attracting recruits.

By Dan Robitzski

Space Force leaders are worried that nobody will take them seriously if the branch were to take a bigger role in investigating reports of UFOs.
Future Society

Space Force Leaders Are Too Embarrassed to Study UFOs

"They want people to take them seriously."

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists uncovered fossils of a fearsome new pterosaur species that strongly resembles a dragon from European mythology.
Science & Energy

Scientists Discover Dinosaur Fossil That Seems Suspiciously Like a Dragon

"It would have cast a great shadow over some quivering little dinosaur that wouldn't have heard it until it was too late."

By Dan Robitzski

Hollywood A-lister Tom Hanks' lost cause of a son Chet decided to light up his own dumpster fire and wade into the deranged anti-vaccine discussion.
Developments

Tom Hanks’ Idiot Son Launches Into Deranged Anti-Vaccine Rant

Have we really not learned anything?

By Victor Tangermann

Is blockchain tech alive? No, but scientists argue it may as well be if we adjusted our definition of what represents life.
Biology

Scientists Say Blockchains “Fit Some Definitions of Life”

"This work presents evidence that the order observed in biological systems is fundamentally computational."

By Dan Robitzski

A medical device for heart failure called the HeartWare Ventricular Assist Device likely contributed to thousands of deaths, and the FDA didn't step in.
Prosthetics and Devices

Defective Heart Pump Appears Have Killed Thousands of Patients

The FDA failed to act even as thousands died.

By Dan Robitzski

What would happen if you threw all 7.88 billion humans on Earth into one galactic blender and extracted the resulting goo into a sphere?
Prosthetics and Devices

Disturbing Simulation Shows What Would Happen if You Blended Up Every Living Human

You'd need a pretty big blender.

By Victor Tangermann

On Sunday afternoon, a 3.9 magnitude earthquake struck the Florida coast. The Navy said it was conducting an "experimental explosion."
Future Society

The US Military Just Set Off Another 3.9 Magnitude Explosion

The US Navy was conducting an "experimental explosion."

By Victor Tangermann

Nearly a week after it was supposed to launch, Boeing still isn't sure what's behind the propulsion system issues with its Starliner prototype.
Boeing

Something Is Really Screwed Up With Boeing’s Starliner Prototype

Boeing is running out of time to figure out what went wrong.

By Dan Robitzski

A new render by SpaceX enthusiast Erc X on Twitter shows the two giant stainless-steel Starship spacecraft meeting in space for a refueling session.
Starship

Elon Musk-approved Render Shows Two Starships, uh, Exchanging Fluids

Yeah, they're refueling. We think.

By Victor Tangermann

A comprehensive UN report warns that we have delayed climate action for too long to prevent climate devastation, but we can keep it from getting worse.
Climate Change

UN Says It’s “Code Red for Humanity” in Alarming Climate Change Report

"Things are unfortunately likely to get worse than they are today."

By Dan Robitzski

An international team of scientists argue that once upon a time, the Gale crater on Mars was a mere series of ponds, according to Curiosity data.
Science & Energy

Scientists Say NASA’s Mars Rover Is on the Site of Ancient Ponds, Not a Huge Lake

Was the Gale crater an ancient lake — or a series of tiny ponds?

By Victor Tangermann