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In 2018, Consultants reported damage that included cracks in support columns and walls at the Surfside, Florida condo that collapsed this week.
Future Society

The 2018 report warned of "major structural damage" to the building

The Pentagon has finally released its long-awaited UFO report on Friday — and it's honestly kind of a let down. Here are the details you need to know.
Future Society

I expected nothing and I’m still let down.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence just dropped its hotly-anticipated declassified report on "unidentified aerial phenomena," or UFOs.
Robots and Machines

It's here.

According to a recent tweet by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, the space company's first prototype of its Starship booster Super Heavy is "almost done."
Starship

"Next one will fly to orbit."

A new report by the Air Force Research Laboratory suggests that the Space Force should prepare to treat the Moon and cislunar space as a military domain.
Moon

The US military is considering expanding its reach beyond Earth.

A physicist argues that the universe may have been expanding for all of eternity rather than having any sort of "beginning" point in time.
Physics

What if the universe didn't actually have a beginning?

Some commonly used artificial sweeteners could potentially cause serious health issues by making the bacteria in our gut invade the intestinal walls.
Studies

There's still a lot we don't understand about artificial sweeteners.

Scientists discovered that an ancient skull belonged to a new species in the Homo genus that's even closer related to us than Neanderthals.
Science & Energy

And it may be an even closer relative than Neanderthals are.

Guggenheim's chief investment officer (CIO) and noted Bitcoin bear Scott Minerd expects Bitcoin to sink as low as $15,000, a drop of over 50 percent.
Bitcoin

"I don't think people need to be anxious to be putting money in bitcoin right now."

Google's search engine misidentified an engineer's likeness as belong to a serial killer, who happens to have the same name.
Future Society

"I don't know if this is hilarious or terrifying."

The research labs around the world that handle the most dangerous pathogens have alarmingly bad biosecurity protocols in place.
Developments

Labs handling the most dangerous pathogens scored dismally low on biosafety and biosecurity.

Israel has deployed a military robot called the Jaguar, which is armed with a machine gun, to the border of the Gaza Strip.
Robotics

Heavily armed military robots will guard the border to Gaza.

China's state-owned Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology has announced some ambitious plans to establish a permanent crewed base on the surface of Mars.
Mars

The race to establish a human presence on Mars is heating up.

We may never be able to debunk the undying hypothesis that the coronavirus somehow escaped from a lab because it's technically unfalsifiable.
Developments

There's always another technicality, no matter how much evidence researchers find.

A tech startup says it's gene-hacked trees to asborb and sequester more climate change-inducing carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
Science & Energy

The idea is to suck up more carbon and keep it from re-entering the atmosphere.

Israeli biotech company Future Meat has opened what it claims to be the "world's first industrial cultured meat facility."
Science & Energy

It can produce the equivalent of 5,000 burgers a day.

Orbital Assembly Corporation has unveiled a robot capable of churning out parts for a ring-shaped luxury hotel that's meant to one day orbit the Earth.
Off-World

The robot managed to churn out a metal framework the length of a football field.

An ambitious mission to map out the entire global ocean floor is only 20 percent complete after a year of pandemic-related slowdowns.
Environment

We should probably finish exploring our own world first.

An ancient comet impact may have helped jumpstart human civilization, according to a study linking the collision to cultural and societal shifts.
Science & Energy

"Did civilization, therefore, begin with a bang?"

American pop icon Britney Spears spoke out in an explosive testimony on Wednesday about the troubling situation surrounding her conservatorship.
Future Society

"I truly believe this conservatorship is abusive."