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Congressman Louie Gohmert suggested in a bad-faith argument against climate change legislation, that the government should try to adjust the Moon's orbit.
Climate Change

It can't!

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese authorities arrested over 1,100 people accused of laundering money through Bitcoin in order to hide their telecom fraud.
Bitcoin

The Chinese government has been cracking down on fraud for months.

By Dan Robitzski

Archeologists in Israel made an incredibly rare discovery in the ancient industrial zone of Yavneh, a central Israeli city: a 1,000 year old chicken egg.
Science & Energy

"Even at the global level, this is an extremely rare find."

By Victor Tangermann

New research found over 500 new fast radio bursts, giving scientists much more to work with as they figure out what's causing them.
Science & Energy

A telescope identified hundreds of new fast radio bursts.

By Dan Robitzski

The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced it is also planning to take a trip to Venus to get a closer look.
Off-World

Scientists are itching to get a better look.

By Victor Tangermann

After making Bitcoin legal tender, president Nayib Bukele wants to use volcano-based geothermal energy to mine the cryptocurrency.
Bitcoin

El Salvador's president wants to use geothermal energy to mine crypto.

By Victor Tangermann

The AI development group DeepMind says that all the core components of artificial general intelligence are already here, we just need to let them work.
Google

Reinforcement learning may be able to teach itself how to reach true intelligence.

By Dan Robitzski

Physicist Mark Buchanan argued we should be grateful for not having made contact with alien civilizations yet in a piece for The Washington Post.
Robots and Machines

"Attempting to communicate with extraterrestrials, if they do exist, could be extremely dangerous for us."

By Victor Tangermann

China is set to launch the first astronauts to its new orbiting space station. A Long March 2F rocket rolled out onto the launch pad on Wednesday.
Off-World

A Long March 2F rocket rolled out onto the launch pad on Wednesday.

By Victor Tangermann

The Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne said that he'd love to work with Elon Musk to host the first-ever concert in space.
Off-World

"We've always said that we want to be the first band to play on the International Space Station."

By Dan Robitzski

The secondhand market for electric vehicles has a sticky issue: it's impossible to figure out the health of any given electric car's battery.
Electric Vehicles

Can regulators fix this battery degradation problem?

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took a stunning 360-degree panorama of its surroundings while parked at the "Van Zyl Overlook" in the Jezero Crater.
NASA

It was stitched together from 992 individual images.

By Victor Tangermann

NASA administrator Bill Nelson has some strong feelings on the topic of space junk, as evidenced in a recent interview with CNN.
NASA

"It's dangerous, and shameful for anybody — including the US — that has allowed space debris to be up there."

By Victor Tangermann

McDonald's has been experimenting with using voice recognition instead of human employees to take orders at some of its drive-thrus.
Artificial Intelligence

The CEO says workers are surprisingly eager to jump in and help the AI out.

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found and woke up a microscopic creature that froze and went dormant in Siberian permafrost about 24,000 years ago.
Biology

It's (somehow still) alive!

By Dan Robitzski

According to Bloomberg Opinion columnist Liam Denning, Bitcoin's drop could make a Bitcoin sale "mighty tempting, regardless of what Musk tweeted."
Tesla

Did Elon Musk lie about not selling any Bitcoin?

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter nailed its seventh flight without facing any of the glitches that forced an emergency landing during its previous journey.
Mars

Ingenuity's latest flight left its previous troubles behind.

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon was found to be selling fake COVID-19 vaccination cards on its platform, as a senior researcher at a media watchdog discovered.
Developments

E-commerce platforms are struggling to contain a flood of phony vaccine products.

By Victor Tangermann

In an interview with CNN, NASA administrator Bill Nelson chimed in on the topic of UFOs ahead of the release of a long-awaited report on the matter.
NASA

"We don't know if it's extraterrestrial." 

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists found organic molecules inside of planetary nebulae, challenging astronomers' assumptions about what could and couldn't survive.
Science & Energy

They didn't think that kind of organic chemistry was possible.

By Dan Robitzski