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New Data: COVID Reached the US Earlier Than We Thought
Viruses

New Data: COVID Reached the US Earlier Than We Thought

The more we learn, the more we rewrite the original timeline of the pandemic.

Experts Beg World Leaders To Actually Learn Lessons From Pandemic, Please
Developments

Experts Beg World Leaders To Actually Learn Lessons From Pandemic, Please

"Don't nitpick about the ideas. See the big picture here."

Hawaii Cops Spent COVID Relief Funds on Robot Dog
Robot Dogs

Hawaii Cops Spent COVID Relief Funds on Robot Dog

"Toys, toys, toys. Everything we could buy, we would buy."

Free School Lunch Linked To Better Health, Higher Salary
Studies

Free School Lunch Linked To Better Health, Higher Salary

Schoolchildren who got free lunch grew taller and earned more money.

The Largest Structures in the Universe Started To Spin and We Don’t Know Why
Science & Energy

The Largest Structures in the Universe Started To Spin and We Don’t Know Why

"We're not really sure what can cause a torque on this scale."

Experts Decide That Earth Has Five Oceans, Actually
Science & Energy

Experts Decide That Earth Has Five Oceans, Actually

The Southern Ocean gets its due.

A New Type of COVID Vaccine Is 90 Percent Effective
Viruses

A New Type of COVID Vaccine Is 90 Percent Effective

Novavax doesn't use the mRNA technology found in the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.

Elon Musk Says Tesla Will Accept Bitcoin Again, on One Condition
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says Tesla Will Accept Bitcoin Again, on One Condition

Make up your mind!

Go Read This Essay on Managing Video Game Addiction
Health & Medicine

Go Read This Essay on Managing Video Game Addiction

"Games may have been part of the problem but for me, they also became part of the solution."

Astronomers recently discovered a new technique that makes it much easier to detect and study how dark matter is distributed throughout the universe.
Science & Energy

Scientists Discover Giant Arc of Galaxies That Could “Overturn Cosmology”

"This is a very big deal."

NASA has approved development of the Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope to hunt out potentially life-threatening asteroids approaching our planet.
NASA

NASA to Build an Asteroid Hunting Space Telescope

It’s a part of the agency’s "planetary defense efforts."

The CDC released a study on Friday indicating that attempted suicides amongst teenaged girls rose sharply during the pandemic.
Studies

CDC Study: Teen Suicide Attempts Spiked During the Pandemic

The rise specifically occurred with teenage girls.

restly sleep app
Future Society

Corporations Want to Put Advertisements In Your Dreams

“Our dreams cannot become just another playground for corporate advertisers.”

Scientists have sent a sample of mouse sperm into the Internation Space Station to study the effects of radiation on mammalian reproduction.
Off-World

Researchers Sent Freeze-Dried Mouse Sperm to Space to Study Radiation

That's one way to do it.

Physicists Find Particles That Switch Between Matter and Antimatter
From Quarks to Quasars

Physicists Find Particles That Switch Between Matter and Antimatter

This could change much of what we know about the Universe.

Arizona has refurbished its old gas chamber to execute more death row prisoners again. The state also purchased gas used by Nazis during the Holocaust.
Future Society

Arizona Has Fixed Up an Old Gas Chamber So It Can Kill Prisoners Again

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is well aware of a potentially fatal flaw in the company's plan to use a Moon base as a refueling station.
Moon

NASA Is Planning to Land on Far Side of the Moon for the First Time

The agency wants to gather data to eventually send humans there.

An NFT of the Doge meme has been sold for more than $4 million on Friday making it the highest ever paid for an NFT of a meme.
NFTs

An NFT of the Original “Doge” Pic Just Sold For $4 Million

Doge is now the highest-earning NFT meme ever.

3D Printing

This Futuristic Robot Arm Is a 3D Printer, Laser Engraver, and Much More

The Rotrics DexArm is a great STEM hobby for you and your family.

In the new photos from China's Mars lander, there's an interesting detail with profound implications for the future of Mars exploration: a huge hole.
Mars

Check Out This Huge Hole That China’s Mars Rover Blasted Into the Ground While Landing

"Now that's a crater."