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SpaceX COO and President Gwynne Shotwell says the Starlink network could provite global connectivity after just five more satellite launches.
Science & Energy

The Starlink network will be able to reach most people on Earth in a few months.

According to local authorities, the Boring Company's Las Vegas tunnel could soon be using higher capacity vehicles built by Tesla.
Tesla

Many questions remain.

Neuralink's new demo isn't exactly groundbreaking to many, with some arguing the underlying technology has been around for decades.
Prosthetics and Devices

The results still managed to impress some.

Scientists developed a blood test for clinical depression that they say will make diagnoses and treatments far more specific.
Health & Medicine

"This is part of our effort to bring psychiatry from the 19th century into the 21st century."

Matt Gaetz seems to have further incriminated himself in an ongoing sex trafficking scandal by leaving his Venmo on public.
Science & Energy

If you're allegedly funneling money through an accused sex trafficker, at least set it to "friends only."

A low resolution video made up of several images shows NASA's Mars helicopter's two rotocopter blades spinning up on the surface of Mars.
Mars

Get ready for action.

Experts say that ethical concerns over growing brain-like neural organoids or implanting human brain cells into animals are unfounded, at least for now.
Neuroscience and Brain

The NIH is imposing clear ethical guidelines over controversial neuroscience studies.

A YouTuber decided to trespass on SpaceX's Starship facilities near Boca Chica, Texas, last month — and film himself doing it.
Starship

An apology video may not be enough.

The French army's foremost military school has shown off pictures of the latest addition to its team of combatants: a four-legged robotic dog called Spot.
Boston Dynamics

Low battery warning.

Elon Musk revealed today that Neuralink's first product will allow someone with paralysis to "use a smartphone [...] faster than someone using thumbs."
Elon Musk

Who needs a touchscreen when you've got your mind?

Elon Musk's Neuralink has shown off an impressive new feat: a nine year old macaque called Pager playing a game of pong only using the signals in its brain.
Prosthetics and Devices

"It's not magic."

The University of Chicago and two national labs are launching the first quantum tech startup-focused accelerator in the country.
Quantum Physics

The Duality accelerator lends a heaping dose of credibility to the nascent field.

An international team of researchers have come up with a fusion-based spacecraft thruster that uses a hydrogen isotope called deuterium as a fuel source.
Off-World

To Neptune and beyond.

New research shows that major depressive disorder might actually make people's bodies start to age faster than they should be at a cellular level.
Health & Medicine

"This should fundamentally alter the way we approach depression and how we think about it — as a part of overall health."

Despite widespread availability of COVID-19 vaccines, people in the US are still trying to track down drugs that weren't designed to treat COVID symptoms.
Viruses

People are so desperate, they're taking animal formulations of the drug.

When a robot messes up, people are way more likely to find it infuriating if it looks like a person. But we're also more likely to accept its apology.
Robotics

God save the Roomba.

Theoretical physicist and science communicator Michio Kaku had some words of advice for those who find themselves kidnapped by aliens.
Science & Energy

Also, what to do if you ever find yourself kidnapped inside a UFO.

Lakes and rivers on Mars likely dried up and reappeared several times over the course of history before they went away for good.
Science & Energy

Mars seems to have a much more complex relationship with water than we thought.

Researchers are worried over the rise of "ghost forests" along the coast of North Carolina, caused by climate change.
Space

It's a worrying trend.

an Australian startup built a laser that could blast orbital debris orbiting the Earth out of the way without needing to launch any new spacecraft.
Space

It's like playing a high-stakes game of Missile Command.