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

Israel Sends Robots Armed with Machine Guns to Palestinian Border

Heavily armed military robots will guard the border to Gaza.

By Dan Robitzski

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

China Releases Plans for Permanent Mars Base

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

By Victor Tangermann

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

The Lab Leak Theory Is a Tragic Hall of Mirrors That’ll Probably Never Have a Satisfying Answer

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

By Dan Robitzski

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

A Startup Is Working on Gene Hacked Trees to Gobble Up Tons of Climate-Destroying Carbon Dioxide

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

By Dan Robitzski

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

The World’s First Lab Grown Meat Factory Just Opened Up

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

By Victor Tangermann

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

Startup Successfully Tests Space Hotel Building Robot

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

By Victor Tangermann

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’re Planning Moon Missions But We’ve Only Mapped 20 Percent of the Ocean Floor

We should probably finish exploring our own world first.

By Dan Robitzski

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

Study: A Comet Hitting Earth May Have Helped Spark Civilization

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

By Dan Robitzski

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

Britney Spears Says She’s Being Forced to Take Psychiatric Medication, Stay on Birth Control

"I truly believe this conservatorship is abusive."

By Victor Tangermann

Members of Congress tried to pass the buck for NASA's small budget for the Artemis missions, but Administrator Bill Nelson wasn't having it.
NASA

Head of NASA Slams Congress’s Hypocrisy

"…you can only get so many pounds of potatoes out of a five-pound sack."

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new analysis, early genetic sequences linked to the initial outbreaks of the coronavirus in Wuhan were mysteriously deleted.
Developments

Scientist Says Early Chinese COVID Data Was Mysteriously Deleted

There's still we a lot we don't know.

By Victor Tangermann

John McAfee, software pioneer, has died by apparent suicide in his Spanish prison cell Wednesday evening, the New York Post reports.
Future Society

John McAfee Found Dead in Prison Cell

He was found dead just hours after news emerged he would face extradition to the US.

By Victor Tangermann

According to recent research, a cancer-like parasitic disease caused by tapeworms was identified in patients in the Canadian province of Alberta.
Developments

A Scary Parasite Is Spreading From Dogs to Humans

It's establishing itself in North America.

By Victor Tangermann

A new Facebook patent reveals some unusual new augmented reality headware, including a fedora, baseball cap, and visor with displays attached to the brim.
Future Society

Facebook Is Working on an Amazingly Hideous Augmented Reality Fedora

Even the guy in the patent drawing looks like he doesn't want to be there.

By Dan Robitzski

A Texas hospital just ousted over 150 employees who refused to get the coronavirus vaccine, comparing the workplace requirement to Nazism.
Viruses

Texas Hospital Fires Over 150 Employees For Refusing To Get Vaccinated

In a dismissed lawsuit, they compared vaccine requirements to Nazism.

By Dan Robitzski

Japan's government is now recommending companies to allow their staff to work for four, not five, days a week, as Deutsche Welle reports.
Future Society

The Japanese Government Is Strongly Encouraging Four-Day Work Weeks

Japan's unhealthy work-life balance may be terrible for the economy.

By Victor Tangermann

In a video, a Tesla Model S could recharge its batteries at a rate of 65 kilowatts while being towed by a different vehicle at 70 mph.
Tesla

Towing a Tesla Recharges It Really Quickly Due to Regenerative Braking

It works astonishingly well.

By Victor Tangermann

A professor who specializes in oil drilling and engineering claimed that he disproved Einstein, just to face mockery online.
Physics

Professor Mocked for Claiming to Have Disproved Einstein

He says Einstein's relativity "misled physicists' and basic human understanding of the world."

By Dan Robitzski

NASA scientists are still furiously trying to fix the main payload computer onboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. But they may be closer to finding a fix.
NASA

NASA Says It’s Still Trying to Fix Damaged Hubble

Not all is lost — yet.

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope experienced an issue with its payload computer, forcing scientific operations to grind to a halt over the weekend.
NASA

NASA’s Hubble Telescope Just Glitched Into Safe Mode, Whoops

Hubble: It's basically just like your laptop!

By Victor Tangermann