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China has shared the first pictures taken by its Zhurong Mars rover after touching down on the Red Planet's surface over the weekend.
Mars

Chinese Rover Sends Back First Photos From Surface of Mars

"It's another important milestone for China's space exploration."

Even a Tiny Bit of Drinking Damages Your Brain, Scientists Say
Brain

Even a Tiny Bit of Drinking Damages Your Brain, Scientists Say

You hate to see it.

Scientists are worried that spending prolonged periods of time in the microgravity of space could have negative effects on the spines of astronauts.
NASA

NASA Concerned That Space Is Destroying Astronauts’ Spines

That's not good.

A cache of horrifying emails show that during the height of the opioid crisis, pharmaceutical execs were hard at work mocking rural Americans.
Developments

Pharma Execs Mocked Rural Opioid Addiction in Newly-Released Emails

Horrifying emails show the pharaceutical industry's contempt for rural American "pillbillies."

President Joe Biden raced a still unreleased and fully electric Ford F-150 Lightning through an empty parking lot near the company's headquarters Michigan.
Advanced Transport

Joe Biden Takes All Electric Ford F-150 Lightning for a Joyride

"This sucker's quick."

If you didn’t get in on a Cybertruck pre-order, there’s a new way for you to get in on the action: A rad, new Hot Wheels remote control version — only $100.
Advanced Transport

The Hot Wheels Remote Control Cybertruck: Admittedly Pretty Cool

Smol car, big fun

Barack Obama sat down for a "Late Late Show" interview. When Reggie Watts asked Obama about any UFO theories, he had a surprising answer.
Future Society

Barack Obama: “When It Comes to Aliens, There Are Things I Just Can’t Tell You on Air”

"I was like, ‘Is there a lab somewhere where we’re keeping the alien specimens and space ships?'"

Researchers at the University of Zurich have modified a common respiratory virus called the adenovirus to eliminate tumors from the inside out.
Viruses

Doctors Hack Virus to Make Tumors Kill Themselves

This new technique tricks a tumor into eliminating itself from the inside out.

A 2015 Tesla Model S crashed into a parked Washington state deputy's patrol vehicle over the weekend with its Autopilot feature turned on.
Tesla

Tesla on Autopilot Smashes Into Police Car

The cop car sustained "significant damage."

The World’s First Nuclear Bomb Test Forged a Strange Object
Nuclear Fusion

The World’s First Nuclear Bomb Test Forged a Strange Object

"This quasicrystal is magnificent in its complexity — but nobody can yet tell us why it was formed in this way."

A team of researchers believes it has found ample evidence of a variety of fungus-like creatures on Mars by looking at NASA rover and orbiter images.
Science & Energy

Extremely Dubious Research Claims to Spot Fungus Growing on Mars

"Fungi thrive in radiation intense environments."

In a recent televised interview with CNN, Retired US Navy Chief Master-at-Arms Sean Cahill expanded on a strange sighting he made in 2004.
Military

Former US Military Official: Unidentified Objects “a Hundred to a Thousand Years” Ahead of Our Tech

"They are very capable and in some cases more capable than anything in our own inventory."

Not everybody is enthused about SpaceX absorbing the area surrounding its testing facilities in South Texas to build out its "Starbase."
Off-World

Residents Furious at Elon Musk for Turning Rural Town Into Growing Spaceport

"I don’t like what they do, but you don’t want to start a fight with them."

Terrifying UFC Fighter Screams at Elon Musk, Who Meekly Acquiesces
Elon Musk

Terrifying UFC Fighter Screams at Elon Musk, Who Meekly Acquiesces

"ELON MUSK! WHERE’S MY WIFE’S CAR, BRO?"

Tesla's Plaid Model S prototype was sporting an "adjustable wing built into the trunk" while doing laps at Laguna Seca in California.
Tesla

New Tesla Prototype Has Retractable Spoiler

The "quickest accelerating car in production today" may come with an adjustable wing.

Blockchains Were Supposed to Be “Unhackable.” Now They’re Getting Hacked.
Hacking

Blockchains Were Supposed to Be “Unhackable.” Now They’re Getting Hacked.

Cryptocurrencies are far from hack-proof.

Bill Gates' resignation from Microsoft came as the board was investigating him for an "inappropriate" relationship with a female Microsoft employee.
Future Society

Bill Gates Reportedly Left Microsoft Board Amid Sex Allegations

This is getting messier and messier.

The largest union of registered nurses in the US have condemned the CDC for ditching all mask recommendations for those who have been fully vaccinated.
Developments

The Country’s Largest Nurses Union Says the CDC’s New Mask Rules Are Terrible

"This is a huge blow to our efforts at confronting this virus and the pandemic."

The world's biggest jeweler Pandora has announced it will cease to sell all mined diamonds and will switch exclusively to lab-made diamonds.
Science & Energy

World’s Biggest Jeweler Will Only Sell Lab-Grown Diamonds

"It's the right thing to do."

Officials just found that buried uranium at Chernobyl is triggering new nuclear reactions, raising the possibility of another dangerous accident.
Energy

Scientists Fear New Disaster at Chernobyl Meltdown Site

"It's like embers in a barbecue pit."