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A non fungible token by digital artist Mike Winkelmann, or "Beeple," has sold for an astonishing $69 million at world-renowned auction house Christie's.
NFTs

An NFT Painting Just Sold For $69 Million

Is the future of fine art collecting... on the blockchain?

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's new Mars rover Perseverance scooped up its first rock and soil samples, officially beginning the hunt for extraterrestrial life.
Mars

Perseverance Is Now Officially Searching for Life on Mars

The hunt begins.

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new blog post, Facebook is hoping to hook up its upcoming AR glasses to a "soft wristband" that can control them.
Meta

Facebook Shows Off Neural “Wristbands” to Control AR Glasses

These wristbands use a small EMG to capture signals from the spinal cord.

By Victor Tangermann

Citizens were outraged after the mayor of the Japanese town Suttsu volunteered to be considered as a nucelar waste storage site.
Nuclear Fusion

Japanese Mayor’s House Firebombed to Protest Nuclear Power

The Fukushima disaster still looms large in Japan's collective memory.

By Dan Robitzski

Victor Smith, a 91-year-old man from Ohio, accidentally got two shots of the COVID vaccine in a single day, local NBC-affiliated news station WLWT5 reports.
Developments

A Man Accidentally Got Two COVID Vaccines on the Same Day and It Was Not Good

"They pretty much told me he was not going to make it."

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has released an incredible video of the pictures its Perseverance rover took right before landing on Mars on February 18th.
Mars

First-Person Vid Shows Perseverance Hurtling Toward Mars Surface

"You’re looking at the real deal images I used to make my pinpoint landing."

By Victor Tangermann

An international team of researchers has dug through hundreds of years worth of data surrounding the Earth's magnetic field and found something unusual.
Science & Energy

A Huge “Magnetic Anomaly” Struck One Geographic Spot, Hundreds of Years Ago

The research could help scientists predict future geomagnetic shifts.

By Victor Tangermann

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

Scientists Say a Gene Hack Could Make You Feel Less Pain

"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

Report: Climate Change Is Now Causing “Worrying” Health Impacts

"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

Is the Asteroid Belt What’s Left of an Obliterated Planet?

"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

Paralyzed Soccer Player Walks Again Using Exoskeleton Suit

"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

NASA’s New Rover Just Shot a Rock With Its Laser

"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

COVID Hospitalizations Are Plummeting With Vaccine Rollout

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

Police Just Seized Another Elon Musk Flamethrower During a Drug Bust

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

Why Was Google Telling People to Throw Car Batteries Into the Ocean?

"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

The Moon Has a Huge, Invisible, Comet-Like Tail

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

In the Distant Future, All Earth’s Creatures May Asphyxiate From Lack of Oxygen

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

China Is Blanketing Every Public Space in Spy Cameras

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

Trolls Are Spreading a Rumor That Elon Musk Is Dead

"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

Bill Gates Says That Bitcoin Sucks

"It’s not a great climate thing."

By Victor Tangermann