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A facility that bottles the AstraZeneca coronavirus into glass vials was temporarily on lockdown today after a suspicious package arrived.
Viruses

If this research holds up, it's incredibly good news for the rest of the world.

By Tony Ho Tran

Neuroscientists found that crows have conscious and subjective experiences, challenging assumptions about animal intelligence and human superiority.ogical constraints
Developments

"If confirmed, this would be the first time H5N8 has infected people."

By Tony Ho Tran

If I were dropped in Jezero crater with a pressurized spacesuit, could I defeat NASA’s mighty Perseverance rover in mortal combat? 
Mars

Who would win in a fight — NASA's Perseverance rover, or a Futurism journalist?

By Georgina Torbet

Researchers find clear evidence of a link between the radio waves emitted by certain cell phones and cancer in male rats.
Mars

It's about as powerful as an old iMac.

By Tony Ho Tran

One of the latest photos released by NASA is a spectacular shot of the Perseverance rover as it descends on parachute through the Martian atmosphere.
Mars

A zoomed out photo shows NASA's newest rover touching down on Mars.

By Tony Ho Tran

New models suggest that Earth's magnetic field, already overdue for a total reversal, could shift faster than we thought.
Climate Change

And it might happen again — soon.

By Tony Ho Tran

"FREE AMERICA NOW," billionaire and entrepreneur Elon Musk tweeted early this morning, echoing president Donald Trump's recent tweets about the lockdown.
Elon Musk

Musk co-authored a new paper about COVID with scientists from Harvard and MIT.

By Tony Ho Tran

A COVID-19 reserve held back intended to be used as second booster shots by the Trump administration doesn't actually exist, the Washington Post reports.
Developments

He says COVID will be "mostly gone" in a few months — but his peers aren’t convinced.

By Tony Ho Tran

The United States has formally reentered the Paris Climate Agreement today. 2030 carbon goals will be set by Earth Day in April.
Climate Change

A new chapter in the fight against climate change just began.

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists just released a map that shows over 25,000 different supermassive black holes in a tiny portion of the night sky.
Science & Energy

See this huge map? Each tiny dot is a supermassive black hole.

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists cloned an endangered species for the first time with the successful birth of Elizabeth Ann, a black-footed ferret.
Science & Energy

Meet Elizabeth Ann, a black-footed ferret cloned from an animal that died 30 years ago.

By Dan Robitzski

Anthony Levandowski decided to shut down the artificial intelligence-focused church he started and donated its funds to the NAACP.
Artificial Intelligence

And all its money is going to Black Lives Matter.

By Dan Robitzski

Another earthquake hit the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Saturday, further complicating the effort to manage and decommission it.
Energy

And there's new damage.

By Dan Robitzski

NASA has released the next photo sent to us all the way from Mars courtesy of its Perseverance mission, which successfully landed on Thursday.
Mars

You can see the rover dangling high above the Martian surface.

By Victor Tangermann

Amid rolling blackouts, Texans are having to get creative to stay warm. Some are sleeping in their Tesla vehicles overnight.
Sleep

"So my wife my dog and my newborn daughter slept in the garage in our Model 3 all nice and cozy."

By Victor Tangermann

The US Department of Justice indicted three state-backed North Korean hackers for stealing a massive pile of cryptocurrency.
Cryptocurrency

That's billion with a "b."

By Dan Robitzski

Two Florida women in their 20s reportedly dressed up as "grannies" to get the COVID-19 vaccine early, according to local Orlando news station WFTV.
Viruses

They were "dressed up as grandmas with 'bonnets and gloves.'"

By Victor Tangermann

Scienists managed to open a two-way line of real-time communication with people who were having lucid dreams, some of whom were able to solve math problems.
Science & Energy

Volunteers were able to understand and solve math problems — while they were asleep.

By Dan Robitzski

When Tesla CEO Elon Musk moved to Austin, Texas earlier this year, he likely couldn't have predicted a cold snap that brought the state to its knees.
Elon Musk

It's almost like regulations exist for a reason.

By Victor Tangermann

Futurism reached out to a variety of planetary scientists to ask whether the donut looked like an accurate model of the Red Planet.
Mars

"Mars is not actually coated with caramel or filled with chocolate cream."

By Jon Christian