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After Japan announced it's going ahead with the plan to dump Fukushima's contaminated water into the ocean, a Chinese official issued a personal challenge.
Environment

"So then please drink it."

By Dan Robitzski

Dogecoin is now worth $40 billion, CNBC reports, after values skyrocketed, adding $20 billion in value in just 24 hours.
Cryptocurrency

Did Dogecoin just go to the Moon?

By Victor Tangermann

During a recent visit to Tesla's factory in Austin, Texas, CEO Elon Musk decided to take the company's long-awaited Cybertruck for a spin.
Elon Musk

"I was just there, driving Cybertruck around the site where it will be built!"

By Victor Tangermann

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla says that we'll probably need a third vaccine dose and frequent boosters to optimize our protection against the coronavirus.
Viruses

Third time's the charm.

By Dan Robitzski

A single pixel, a part of an NFT by digital artist Pak, sold for $1.36 million worth of Ether at auction house Sotheby's.
Cryptocurrency

"Pak is our Picasso."

By Victor Tangermann

A new Global Risk Assessment report publihsed by the US intellgience community warns against the possibility of China deploying space weaponry.
Military

Officials are concerned China may dethrone the US as the global leader in space.

By Dan Robitzski

Civil rights groups are outraged at yet another showing of the New York City police department's robotic dog called "Digidog."
Robot Dogs

"We’re powerless."

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists are hard at work tracking down any alien civilizations that might be out there even though there's no guarantee they wouldn't attack us.
Science & Energy

"We have no reason to believe that technological advancement and altruism or morality are somehow linked."

By Dan Robitzski

A mysterious creature caught in a tree caused residents in Krakow, Poland, to shut their windows and hunker down. It turned out to be a croissant.
Future Society

Turns out it wasn't an escaped iguana after all.

By Victor Tangermann

Google Earth just released a huge update to its time-lapse function, creating 3D, 35-year time-lapses of the entire planet.
Science & Energy

Watch Greenland melt before your very eyes.

By Dan Robitzski

Russia is planning to launch a mission to the Moon's south pole — and it's scheduled for launch this October, as Space.com reports. 
Moon

Russia is hoping to pick up where it left off in 1976.

By Victor Tangermann

Research shows that smoking weed can significantly impair people's vision but that only a small percentage of people acknowledge that fact while high.
Chemistry

Maybe go with delivery instead of takeout.

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time ever, an international team of scientists have created chimera embryos that are made up of both human and monkey cells, as NPR reports.
Science & Energy

"Our goal is not to generate any new organism, any monster."

By Victor Tangermann

Vladimir Putin is reportedly terrified of far-fetched genetic weaponry, so security was his top priority when creating a national genetics research program.
Gene Editing

The Russian leader fears the idea of far-fetched "gene weapons."

By Dan Robitzski

US carmaker Ford just announced its answer to Tesla's Autopilot called BlueCruise. CEO Jim Farley took the opportunity to take potshots at the competition.
Tesla

"We tested it in the real world, so our customers don’t have to."

By Victor Tangermann

During a conference, SpaceX COO and president Gwynne Shotwell said the company is hoping to get the first people to Mars inside a Starship "before 2030."
Starship

"Starship is an amazing machine."

By Victor Tangermann

Anomaly in Earth’s Magnetic Field May Be Caused by Buried Fragment of Ancient Planet
Future Society

It's a compelling theory.

By Victor Tangermann

Female Indian jumping ants vying for a seat on a vacant throne actually shrink their own brains to become queenlike mating "gamergate" ants.
Biology

The ants undergo a bizarre transformation while they fight over their colony's throne.

By Dan Robitzski

Startup Epirus has come up with a novel solution to take out enemy drone swarms: a  weapon that can blast out beams of high-power microwaves.
Drones

The system can take out multiple drones at a time.

By Victor Tangermann

A scientist who has long suggested that the coronavirus could have accidentally leaked from a research lab, maintains that the idea is worth investigating.
Developments

"I think it's essential that we have a real investigation… into whether this virus could have come from a lab or from the wildlife trade."

By Dan Robitzski