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Scientists modeled how long it would take for an advanced alien race to colonize an entire Milky Way-like galaxy, assuming it would want to.
Science & Energy

Here’s How Quickly Aliens Could Conquer the Galaxy

No warp drives allowed — that would be cheating.

Tencent Robotics X Lab, a Chinese robot maker, has unveiled a terrifying new "novel wheel-legged robot" that can backflip using its tail.
Robots and Machines

Watch This Terrifying Segway on Steroids Backflip Using Its Tail

Keep it away from me.

Oil companies like Shell are actively trying to rehabilitate their image by paying social media influencers to paint them in a good light.
Climate Change

Oh No, Oil Companies Are Paying Social Media Influencers Now

This road trip brought to you by, uh, gasoline.

According to this researcher, if we ever make contact with an extraterrestrial civilization, we're unlikely to find a group of little green Martians.
Artificial Intelligence

Astronomer: Aliens Will Most Likely Resemble AI if We Ever Make Contact

"They will probably have gone beyond biological smarts and, indeed, beyond biology itself. They won’t be alive."

It’s Official: Tesla Model S Plaid Fastest Production Car Ever Made
Tesla

It’s Official: Tesla Model S Plaid Fastest Production Car Ever Made

"From the minute you step on the accelerator, boom you’re gone."

New Tech Could Take Doctors Out of Hospitals Completely
Prosthetics and Devices

New Tech Could Take Doctors Out of Hospitals Completely

What happens when tech allows for "theoretically limitless distance" between doctor and patient?

New Data: COVID Reached the US Earlier Than We Thought
Viruses

New Data: COVID Reached the US Earlier Than We Thought

The more we learn, the more we rewrite the original timeline of the pandemic.

Experts Beg World Leaders To Actually Learn Lessons From Pandemic, Please
Developments

Experts Beg World Leaders To Actually Learn Lessons From Pandemic, Please

"Don't nitpick about the ideas. See the big picture here."

Hawaii Cops Spent COVID Relief Funds on Robot Dog
Robot Dogs

Hawaii Cops Spent COVID Relief Funds on Robot Dog

"Toys, toys, toys. Everything we could buy, we would buy."

Free School Lunch Linked To Better Health, Higher Salary
Studies

Free School Lunch Linked To Better Health, Higher Salary

Schoolchildren who got free lunch grew taller and earned more money.

The Largest Structures in the Universe Started To Spin and We Don’t Know Why
Science & Energy

The Largest Structures in the Universe Started To Spin and We Don’t Know Why

"We're not really sure what can cause a torque on this scale."

Experts Decide That Earth Has Five Oceans, Actually
Science & Energy

Experts Decide That Earth Has Five Oceans, Actually

The Southern Ocean gets its due.

A New Type of COVID Vaccine Is 90 Percent Effective
Viruses

A New Type of COVID Vaccine Is 90 Percent Effective

Novavax doesn't use the mRNA technology found in the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.

Elon Musk Says Tesla Will Accept Bitcoin Again, on One Condition
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says Tesla Will Accept Bitcoin Again, on One Condition

Make up your mind!

Go Read This Essay on Managing Video Game Addiction
Health & Medicine

Go Read This Essay on Managing Video Game Addiction

"Games may have been part of the problem but for me, they also became part of the solution."

Astronomers recently discovered a new technique that makes it much easier to detect and study how dark matter is distributed throughout the universe.
Science & Energy

Scientists Discover Giant Arc of Galaxies That Could “Overturn Cosmology”

"This is a very big deal."

NASA has approved development of the Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope to hunt out potentially life-threatening asteroids approaching our planet.
NASA

NASA to Build an Asteroid Hunting Space Telescope

It’s a part of the agency’s "planetary defense efforts."

The CDC released a study on Friday indicating that attempted suicides amongst teenaged girls rose sharply during the pandemic.
Studies

CDC Study: Teen Suicide Attempts Spiked During the Pandemic

The rise specifically occurred with teenage girls.

restly sleep app
Future Society

Corporations Want to Put Advertisements In Your Dreams

“Our dreams cannot become just another playground for corporate advertisers.”

Scientists have sent a sample of mouse sperm into the Internation Space Station to study the effects of radiation on mammalian reproduction.
Off-World

Researchers Sent Freeze-Dried Mouse Sperm to Space to Study Radiation

That's one way to do it.