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A subsidiary of Russia’s Roscosmos space agency is proposing to send a nuclear power station to Mars to power a future Russian base.
Mars

Russia Proposes Nuclear Power Plant on Mars

Nations are racing ahead to be the first to establish a base on Mars.

Tesla is rolling out the "Full Self-Driving" v9 beta update. Elon Musk is warning drivers not to put too much faith in it and to "be paranoid."
Self-Driving Vehicles

Elon Musk Warns Drivers Not To Trust New “Full Self-Driving” Update

"Please be paranoid."

BREAKING: Richard Branson Successfully Flies to Space on Virgin Rocket
Off-World

BREAKING: Richard Branson Successfully Flies to Space on Virgin Rocket

The billionaire reached an altitude of 50 miles above Earth.

Scientists Create Flexible Ice That Can Bend Like a Wire
Future Society

Scientists Create Flexible Ice That Can Bend Like a Wire

The team believes the ice can help detect air pollution.

The US Military Says China Is Developing Anti-Satellite Weapons
Off-World

The US Military Says China Is Developing Anti-Satellite Weapons

"They’re on the march."

Elon Musks' Boring Company has been hard at work tunneling away under Hawthorne, California. But they never informed the community that they would do so.
Elon Musk

Experts Say Elon Musk’s Florida Tunnel Might Be a Soggy Mess

The proposed tunnel's at risk of extreme flooding from rising sea levels.

Law enforcement agencies across the globe are working together to take down dark web marketplaces facilitating illegal activity.
Future Society

Man Arrested for Selling Insider Trading Info on Dark Web

He faces up to 25 years in jail for securities fraud.

Over the last 15 years, the Earth has doubled how much energy from the Sun it traps as excess heat on the surface and in the ocean.
Climate Change

Another Heatwave Is Coming for the West Coast

Cities like Las Vegas are expected to break all-time heat records.

Researchers dumped 60 brown trout in a water tank that contained low levels of methamphetamine to see if they would get addicted.
Climate Change

Recent Heatwaves Have Killed More Than 1 Billion Sea Creatures

“It just feels like one of those postapocalyptic movies.”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took aim at her fellow lawmakers as well as the fossil fuel industry in a tweet blaming them for the recent NYC floods.
Future Society

AOC Blames Subway Flooding on Politicians Taking “Orders From Fossil Fuel Execs”

"I’m so glad the filibuster is here to fix this oh wait."

The United Launch Alliance is planning to use two of Blue Origin's BE-4 rocket engines to build its Vulcan rocket. But the engine is years late.
Jeff Bezos

There’s Reportedly Massive Drama Inside Jeff Bezos’ Wannabe Space Company

"There is great concern that Blue is not putting enough attention and priority on the engine."

A new car created by award-winning designer Thomas Heatherwick is said to be able to clean the air of pollution while you drive it.
Pollution

New Car Sucks Up Pollution While It Drives

The car can "collect a tennis ball worth” of pollution a year.

Scientists have developed a unique radar system that relies on microwaves and allows us to produce real-time images and videos of objects through walls.
Science & Energy

New Microwave Tech Can See Through Walls, Scientists Say

The system can also detect objects moving at hypersonic speeds.

A newly declassified military program shows that China developed autonomous killer submarines in the 1990s and successfully tested them over ten years ago.
Robotics

China Secretly Developed Autonomous Killer Robot Submarines

The autonomous drone reportedly took down a target all the way back in 2010.

Richard Branson recently announced he would be traveling to space over a week before Jeff Bezos's own journey. Bezos is "seriously pissed off."
Blue Origin

Blue Origin Is Officially Feuding With Virgin Galactic

"Jeff is seriously pissed off."

Elon Musk once again criticized Bitcoin, arguing that the underlying technology of Dogecoin is better suited for scalability.
Science & Energy

Elon Musk Slams Bitcoin’s Underlying Technology

He says Dogecoin is better positioned to scale up.

According to Russian state-owned news agency RIA Novosti, cosmonauts are still trying to identify the source of a leak causing air to escape from the ISS.
Off-World

Cosmonauts Are STILL Hunting Down the Damn Leak on the ISS, Russian Media Reports

The leak was first detected in September 2019.

A massive study found an alarming correlation between heavy cannabis use and suicidal thoughts or actions among teens and young adults.
Health & Medicine

Cannabis Use Linked to Suicide Attempts in Young Adults

This is alarming.

NASA will attempt to switch to the Hubble Space Telescope's backup hardware some time next week after a glitch shut down operations.
NASA

There’s Officially Hope for NASA’s Broken Hubble Space Telescope

NASA will attempt to switch to backup hardware some time next week.

Dubai has opened the deepest pool in the world, with a depth of 196 feet. It features an "abandoned" underwater city with state-of-the-art lighting.
Future Society

Dubai Builds “Underwater City”

This is the deepest pool in the world — and it's absolutely nuts.