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NASA announced Friday that the touchdown site of the Perseverance Rover will be named after sci-fi writer and pioneer Octavia Butler.
Mars

Her legacy lives on.

By Tony Ho Tran

Tesla is hiring a "customer support specialist" that is meant to "escalate complaints [...] and address social media escalations directed at the CEO."
Elon Musk

Well, unless dead people can still tweet.

By Tony Ho Tran

There are several major coronavirus variants spreading throughout the world. Here's what you should know about the most important ones.
Viruses

Here's what we know about the main COVID strains — and whether the vaccines can beat them.

By Dan Robitzski

Given a choice, a surprising number of people prefer the convenience of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine over the increased effectiveness of the others.
Viruses

Would you take a one-shot vaccine, even if it was a bit less effective?

By Dan Robitzski

Courtesy of YouTube account Cosmic Perspective, we can relive the event of SpaceX's Starship prototype SN10 exploding in incredible slow-motion.
Starship

A Starship explosion has never looked this good.

By Victor Tangermann

Videos uploaded by an account called DeepTomCruise shocked users on the video sharing platform with its uncanny clips of a Tom Cruise playing golf.
Artificial Intelligence

Here's how they did it.

By Victor Tangermann

Saharan dust carrying radioactive isotopes from France's nuclear bomb tests in the 1960s is now blowing back into France.
Environment

Ironic.

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is officially on the move.Recently uploaded images show the six-wheeled robot's tracks imprinted in the dust around it.
Mars

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is officially rolling across the Martian wasteland.

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new survey, 69 percent of Americans either want or have at least partially received a coronavirus vaccine, signalling growing optimism.
Viruses

This is nice news.

By Dan Robitzski

A startup wants to deliver cancer drugs directly to brain tumors via tiny, injectible devices that look like little drills.
Brain

But don't worry — it's there to help.

By Dan Robitzski

A bizarre photograph of a ship seemingly hovering above the sea off the coast of Cornwall, UK, made its rounds late Thursday.
Science & Energy

What the hell?

By Victor Tangermann

The support of our readers has been tremendous over this last year — and Futurism truly would not be here if it wasn’t for all of you.
Future Society

Please. We need your help.

By James Del

The China National Space Administration released several new high-definition images captured by its Tianwen-1 Mars probe currently in the planet's orbit.
Mars

That's one hell of a view.

By Victor Tangermann

In a rare instance of reflection, Tesla CEO Elon Musk praised fellow American carmarker Ford to not "have gone bankrupt out of thousands of car startups."
Elon Musk

Remember that Cybertruck vs. F-150 tug of war video? Now, Elon has kinder words.

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars rover Perseverance has spent the last week getting ready for work and stretching its seven foot robotic arm.
Mars

"Warming up for a marathon of science."

By Victor Tangermann

International travelers have had to endure something rather humiliating upon entering China at the airport: anal swab tests for COVID-19 as Reuters reports.
Developments

Is this too invasive?

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX's Boston Dynamics robodog named "Zeus" was spotted sniffing around the site of the recent Starship SN10 test and explosion.
Robot Dogs

SpaceX's robodog "Zeus" is on patrol.

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered water and organic matter on the surface of an asteroid, suggesting that impacts could have brought life's precursors to Earth.
Science & Energy

For the first time ever, scientists have found elements of life in samples from an actual asteroid.

By Dan Robitzski

Russian cosmonauts currently stationed on board the ISS have started drilling holes near the infamous crack that formed in the station's Zvezda module.
Off-World

Don't worry — it's not what it sounds like.

By Victor Tangermann

"Wolverine," a top-secret project by the Alphabet-owned moonshot company X, is building devices that grant superhuman hearing.
Prosthetics and Devices

Google's experimental lab is working on a fascinating, top-secret initiative.

By Dan Robitzski