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The US military is developing an aircraft carrier loaded up with semi-autonomous drones that flies in the air instead of floating on water.
DARPA

The military might have watched too many Marvel movies.

By Dan Robitzski

An Indonesian oil refinery on the island of Java caught on fire early Monday, ballooning into a massive column of fire and smoke. 
Science & Energy

The explosion itself could be heard from over 100 miles away.

By Victor Tangermann

Robot creator Boston Dynamics has released its next dastardly take on God's creations: the "Stretch," forever destined to stack boxes in warehouses.
Boston Dynamics

Watch it unwrap its first present.

By Victor Tangermann

After six days of being wedged in the banks of the Suez Canal, the "Ever Given" finally broke free on Monday afternoon local time.
Robots and Machines

Here's what it took to get it unstuck.

By Victor Tangermann

A YouTuber created an AI-powered computer that uses machine learning to shout compliments at dogs as they pass through his neighborhood.
Robot Dogs

This is probably the most wholesome use of AI ever.

By Tony Ho Tran

A cross-sectional study of about 3,000 young men, their diets, and sperm have researchers thinking more about the adage "you are what you eat."
Developments

The world is on track to be completely infertile by 2045, according to her projections.

By Tony Ho Tran

Chief COVID Advisor: Trump Could Have Prevented Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths
Developments

Birx has been criticized for enabling the previous administration’s mishandling of the pandemic.

By Tony Ho Tran

South Korean President Moon Jae-in unveiled plans to develop and launch a lunar lander capable of reaching the Moon by 2030.
Moon

This marks a major step forward for their domestic space program.

By Tony Ho Tran

During a press conference, cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin told reporters that the leak on board the space station was a "scratch" about two to three cm long.
NASA

“The ISS is an amazing system but, unfortunately, it won’t last forever.”

By Tony Ho Tran

According to a new report, the COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by Pfizer and BioNTech is 93 percent effective after just one out of two doses.
Developments

The move would help poorer nations replicate and distribute more vaccines.

By Tony Ho Tran

Elon Musk took some time on Friday evening to tweet out an image of a Transformers robot with an erection for... reasons.
Elon Musk

It’s more than meats the eye.

By Tony Ho Tran

YouTube says that there is a "disturbing trend" of staged animal rescue videos. Now, they're putting policy in place to identify and ban the videos.
Future Society

The videos include puppies and rabbits being constricted by snakes.

By Tony Ho Tran

Researchers have discovered a distant space object that is emitting ultra-low radio frequencies in the shape of a jellyfish.
Science & Energy

Researchers say the object looks like a cosmic jellyfish.

By Tony Ho Tran

5 Ways Elon Musk Can Help the Ship Trapped in the Suez Canal
Elon Musk

Rockets are involved.

By Tony Ho Tran

Some government agencies are standing in the way of efforts to catalog reports of "unidentified aerial phenomenon," Politico reports.
Off-World

What's the Pentagon hiding?

By Victor Tangermann

In 2018, Elon Musk implied that Tesla employees would lose their stock options if they unionized. Now, the federal government decided that he broke the law.
Elon Musk

The National Labor Relations Board decided a 2018 tweet violated the law.

By Dan Robitzski

A mysterious disease outbreak in Sokoto, Nigeria killed one student and infected 30 others. The government still doesn't know what it was.
Developments

The Ministry of Health is still investigating.

By Dan Robitzski

German scientists have tested a special vaccine targeted at helping the body fight brain cancers for the first time in humans.
Cancer

"We were also able to demonstrate that the activated mutation-specific immune cells had invaded the brain tumor tissue."

By Victor Tangermann

Here's what people want to do with their time as soon as they're fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and can partially reenter society.
Developments

Abandoned rituals, long overdue reunions, and smooching all made the list.

By Dan Robitzski

Mathematician and astronomer Claudio Maccone published more research on how to defend Earth from asteroids with orbital missiles.
Off-World

Claudio Maccone's grand plan is to station defensive missile silos in orbit.

By Dan Robitzski