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A new study published in Psychology & Marketing found that users tend to perceive female robots as having more human traits than male robots.
Robotics

Users perceived female AI as being warmer and more trustworthy.

By Tony Ho Tran

Deaths, injuries, and suicide attempts have landed Amazon on a list of the country’s most dangerous employers according to a new report from The Guardian.
Science & Energy

The company has yet to apologize to its workers.

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA recently ran a ground test for the propulsion system on their Gateway lunar orbiter. It'll allow the future space station to explore the Moon.
NASA

The system will allow the space station to explore the lunar surface.

By Tony Ho Tran

Mars Lander Detects Mysterious “Marsquakes”
Mars

NASA says they're two of the best quakes ever detected on the Red Planet.

By Tony Ho Tran

The gigantic blobs buried within the Earth's mantle, thought to be fragments of the ancient protoplanet Theia, are unfathomably huge.
Science & Energy

An ancient collision may have left giant chunks of another world buried beneath our feet.

By Dan Robitzski

NASA has been teasing that there are two yet-undiscovered Easter eggs on its Perseverance Rover. Anyone who wants to find them has until Easter to try.
Mars

The space agency is teasing a big Easter reveal.

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists argue that entirely space-based space elevators could greatly enhance our ability to send payloads into orbit.
Off-World

The tech is already here, he says.

By Victor Tangermann

Getting a COVID-19 vaccine can be exhilarating. Not only from the personal security, but also the experience of a public health program actually working.
Viruses

Truly getting high on life.

By Dan Robitzski

China's space station is preparing for the first crewed missions to launch and assemble its next space station, Tiangong-3.
Off-World

Here goes nothing!

By Dan Robitzski

The death count as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic has been astronomical — but there may be an even bigger threat facing humanity today.
Viruses

And it's not going to go away any time soon.

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers have designed a personalized cancer vaccine capable of inducing a years-long immune response that fights off melanoma.
Cancer

A recent study of personalized cancer vaccines showed "very rewarding" results.

By Victor Tangermann

Hackers in China are recording sex tapes marketed as "home videos" from people's home security cameras. They claim to have thousands and thousands of them.
Science & Energy

There's a huge underground market for secretly-filmed or hacked videos.

By Dan Robitzski

China's Tianwen-1 spacecraft currently orbiting Mars has snapped a pair of breathtaking pictures of a sunlit crescent Mars.
Mars

The mission's rover is getting ready to take the big plunge as soon as next month.

By Victor Tangermann

According to a high-ranking organizer, it's possible the Summer Olympics in Tokyo will be canceled due to the international coronavirus outbreak.
Developments

The Japanese government has already reserved 500 million vaccines.

By Dan Robitzski

The FDA has been investigating five cases of non-viral hepatitis, which resulted in acute liver failure. All of them drank "Real Water" alkalized water.
Developments

"The whole manufacturing process is flawed in the first place."

By Victor Tangermann

A truck carrying barrels of uranium heafluoride, a radioactive ingredient used to make nuclear power plant fuel, crashed on Wednesday morning.
Science & Energy

The raw ingredients for nuclear power plant fuel, thankfully, stayed contained.

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists accidentally discovered that their experimental gene therapy could restore a blind patient's vision for over 15 months.
Gene Editing

One shot granted more than a year of vision.

By Dan Robitzski

Here are some of the jests and gags that caught our attention during this year's April Fools' Day, ranging from poorly executed to a much-needed chuckle.
Future Society

It's too bad some of these aren't real.

By Victor Tangermann

The Solar Orbiter, a NASA and ESA spacecraft that's exploring the Sun, is kept safe from heat and radiation by a coating of charred, ground-up bones.
Science & Energy

The Solar Orbiter is coated with charred bone, perhaps making it the most metal spacecraft in history.

By Dan Robitzski

According to the White House, the Biden administration is planning to invest in infrastructure to achieve "100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2035."
Energy

"If we act now, in 50 years people are going to look back and say: 'This was the moment that America won the future.'"

By Victor Tangermann