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NASA embedded a secret code on the parachute of the Perseverance Mars rover to help inspire others. Here's exactly what it says.
Mars

Here's what it — and all the other Easter Eggs they left — said.

By Tony Ho Tran

Kelley Aerospace has developed a combat drone capable of reaching supersonic speeds — and they already have 100 pre-orders for it.
Drones

Skynet in the sky, basically.

By Tony Ho Tran

The rats that survive eradication attempts could have sickly offspring — or they could produce "super rats" that are even harder to kill.
Studies

We're all stuck in a digital "Skinner Box," researchers say.

By Tony Ho Tran

A team at Carnegie Mellon University has released an app that they say can determine whether you likely have COVID-19 — just by listening to your voice.
Developments

“Now is not the time to relax restrictions.”

By Tony Ho Tran

Nevada's governor wants to establish innovation zones that'll give tech companies the ability to establish laws—and one crypto frim is interested.
Blockchain

The proposal will give tech companies power to create their own laws. Which, uhh.

By Tony Ho Tran

The Pentagon is considering launching a network of satellites that would be able to identify and track any acts of aggression in outer space.
Space

The rise of anti-satellite weapons means we need more defenses to guard against threats.

By Tony Ho Tran

Zoom, the increasingly-popular video conferencing program, has extremely flawed cybersecurity in place. Companies like SpaceX have already banned it.
Studies

Even more, there are ways to prevent it — or at least mitigate its damage.

By Tony Ho Tran

For the first time ever, researchers were able to catch space-time crystals on camera using a transmission X-ray microscope.
Science & Energy

Woah.

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured a stunning photo of Venus during its flyby en route to the Sun—but there's something in it that has scientists excited.
Off-World

The photo is part of a surprising twist involving a probe's camera.

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA released a stunning high-resolution panorama of the Martian surface taken by Perseverance's Mastcam-Z camera. It spotted a strangely shaped rock.
Mars

What is that thing?

By Victor Tangermann

A trio of robotics executives share how they try to prevent their products from being misused once a customer buys them for whatever purposes.
Robotics

Who's responsible for all the robots among us?

By Dan Robitzski

Instead of finding one big black hole at the center of a cluster of 250,000 stars, a pair of astronomers found evidence of a school of smaller black holes.
Science & Energy

That's not what they were expecting at all.

By Victor Tangermann

Engineers figured out how to make smart tattoos with built in lights that could become useful medical sensors — or at the very least look extremely cool
Science & Energy

Signing up for some (temporary) glowing knuckle tats.

By Dan Robitzski

After an internal and public outcry over how it mishandled AI ethics, Google is trying to save face and restore trust in its work.
Google

It's a weird promise to make after firing its AI ethicists.

By Dan Robitzski

A space colonization company called Orbital Assembly Corporation has some incredibly bold plans to turn science fiction into reality.
Space

"This will be the next industrial revolution."

By Victor Tangermann

A team of Japanese scientists simulated 4,000 entirely new universes to try and understand what happened in the earliest moments of ours.
Science & Energy

"We are trying to do something like guessing a baby photo of our universe from the latest picture."

By Dan Robitzski

New studies show that people who already recovered from COVID-19 and have antibodies in their system get "robust" protection from a single Pfizer dose.
Viruses

This is actually great news, for a change.

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla CEO Elon Musk isn't afraid of the Securities and Exchange Commission coming after him for tweets about the cryptocurrency dogecoin.
Elon Musk

"I hope they do! It would be awesome."

By Victor Tangermann

Russian engineers built a bizarre pilotless aircraft that flies by flapping its six wings like a gigantic, terrifying dragonfly.
Robots and Machines

The aircraft Serenity takes biological inspiration to new extremes.

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found ancient dust that they say is conclusive evidence an asteroid killed the dinosaurs tens of millions of years ago.
Science & Energy

The cold case was reopened thanks to new evidence: asteroid dust inside the ancient impact crater.

By Dan Robitzski