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A team of researchers at the University of California, San Diego have come up with a possible way to reduce chronic pain by temporarily altering a gene.
Health & Medicine

"This has a lot of potential to help patients in the clinic that have intractable pain."

By Victor Tangermann

Some scientists suggest that gene-hacking trees to grow faster and be more resilient could help fight climate change by restoring carbon sinks.
Climate Change

"Climate change-induced shocks are claiming lives, damaging health and disrupting livelihoods in all parts of the world right now."

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists thought the asteroid belt was either the remains of a destroyed planet or the raw materials to make a new one, but the answer is more complex.
Off-World

"In that context, we sometimes call the asteroid belt the blood spatter of the solar system."

By Dan Robitzski

An Australian soccer player with an injury that left him with quadriplegia is learning to walk again with the help of a robotic exoskeleton.
Health & Medicine

"I found that it's sped up the process of me being able to regain walking function."

By Dan Robitzski

In a clip uploaded to SoundCloud, we get to listen to "the first audio recordings of laser strikes on Mars," courtesy of NASA's Perseverance rover.
NASA

"You’re listening to the first audio recordings of laser strikes on Mars."

By Victor Tangermann

As the vaccine rollout continues, a smaller proportion of people who catch the coronavirus are being sent to the hospital.
Viruses

The downward trend continues.

By Dan Robitzski

Canadian police seized a Boring Company "Not-a-Flamethrower" during a drug bust, despite the weapon perhaps being technically legal.
Elon Musk

Come on, it's clearly named "Not-a-Flamethrower."

By Dan Robitzski

Google pulled text from old memes in its search results, as evidenced by when it said throwing car batteries into the ocean was good for the planet.
Google

"Throwing car batteries into the ocean is good for the environment, as they charge electric eels and power the Gulf stream."

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists took a closer look at the comet-like tail that our Moon often grows and figured out that it comes from sporadic meteor impacts.
Science & Energy

And sometimes it blasts the Earth.

By Dan Robitzski

In one billion years, all complex aerobic life on Earth as we know it will eventually die as oxygen levels deplete in our planet's atmosphere.
Science & Energy

And it will happen suddenly.

By Victor Tangermann

China seems to be nearing completion on Sharp Eyes, which is its plan to surveil every public area in the country with spy cameras,
Future Society

The "Sharp Eyes" program will practically eliminate privacy in China.

By Dan Robitzski

Trolls on Twitter started flooding the social media network with made-up screenshots using the hashtag #RIPElon.
Elon Musk

"We absolutely must find a replacement for Mr. Musk before announcing his death publicly."

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft founder and billionaire Bill Gates told The New York Times that Bitcoin is "not a great climate thing."
Bitcoin

"It’s not a great climate thing."

By Victor Tangermann

NASA research reveals that Mars dust is whipping around the inner solar system, blasting spacecraft and even reaching Earth.
Science & Energy

NASA's Juno spacecraft accidentally solved a cosmic whodunnit.

By Dan Robitzski

Musk took to Twitter on Tuesday to explain what may have gone wrong during SN10's maiden voyage — and explosion — last month.
Starship

Here's what likely went wrong.

By Victor Tangermann

Two separate groups of researchers have suggested new theories as to how to make wormholes safe enough to be traversable by humans.
Science & Energy

These entirely theoretical wormholes are totally "traversable."

By Victor Tangermann

Russia and China have signed a memorandum of understanding that formalizes their plans to develop a Moon base together -- and without NASA.
Moon

China and Russia are headed to the Moon — and thumbing their noses at NASA.

By Jon Christian

As part of a marketing stunt, Dutch TV personality Stijn Fransen got a tattoo by a tattoo artist remotely through the use of a 5G-enabled robot.
Robotics

Would you?

By Victor Tangermann

A controversial 2018 research paper about the discovery of an elusive subatomic particle has been retracted by the reputable journal Nature.
Quantum Physics

"I don’t know for sure what was in their heads, but they skipped some data that contradicts directly what was in the paper."

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new analysis, a meteorite found last year in Algeria is a piece of an ancient planet, older than the Earth itself.
Science & Energy

An astonishing discovery.

By Jon Christian