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Researchers were able to cause two plastic trays to hover using only light — opening the doors to research unexplored parts of the sky.
Science & Energy

NASA is reportedly interested in the discovery.

By Tony Ho Tran

According to UK experts, the fast spreading B117 variant of the coronavirus may increase the death rate by 30 to 40 percent.
Viruses

If it goes global, we could be in big trouble.

By Tony Ho Tran

The United Arab Emirates became the first Arab nation to orbit the Red Planet — and they celebrated by taking a stunning photo of the Martian surface.
Mars

The Red Planet has never looked so good.

By Tony Ho Tran

China’s Yutu 2 Rover discovered an unusual elongated rock on the surface of the moon — and they suspect it might be a shard from a meteor impact.
Moon

"It seems to have a shard-like shape and is sticking out of the ground."

By Tony Ho Tran

Astronomers have discovered a planetary fragment orbiting a white dwarf, and it could yield new insights into the future of our own solar system.
Science & Energy

Scientists found something ghastly embedded in the edges of dying stars.

By Tony Ho Tran

Sister André, the world's second oldest person, fended off the coronavirus — and celebrated with champagne and a delicious feast.
Developments

This nun has survived the Spanish Flu, two world wars — and now COVID-19.

By Tony Ho Tran

A NASA-sponsored report finds that the agency has fallen behind on its push to develop nuclear propulsion for spacecraft, threatening a 2039 Mars mission.
Mars

If they can pull it off, it could allow human exploration of the solar system.

By Dan Robitzski

A new neural net algorithm can listen to people's heartbeats with radio waves and guess how they're feeling 71 percent of the time.
Artificial Intelligence

Its creators say it's accurate 71 percent of the time.

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new study, the type 2 diabetes treatment drug called semaglutide could be an effective way to reduce weight in obese patients.
Health & Medicine

Miracle drug or luxury treatment?

By Victor Tangermann

A team of Japanese scientists cultured stem cells into hair follicles that can naturally grow back lost hair after it falls out.
Treatments

This stem cell research could lead to a next-generation treatment for baldness.

By Dan Robitzski

After years of testing and development, NASA is ready to start assembling the spacecraft that will visit the metallic asteroid Psyche.
Science & Energy

It'll explore what NASA believes is the exposed core of a planet that broke apart.

By Dan Robitzski

The next generation of Russia's Sotnik battle armor will reportedly be able to withstand a direct shot from a .50 caliber bullet.
Future Society

It's also got built-in night vision, comms and more.

By Dan Robitzski

A U.S. Navy Admiral warns that nuclear war with Russia or China is a "very real possibility" and that the military needs to betterplan for the possibility.
Future Society

He says the US is closer to a major war than at any point since the height of the Cold War.

By Dan Robitzski

Claire "Grimes" Boucher said she'd be down to move to Mars "after age 50" — and even if it means "manual labor until death."
Mars

"I guess I’d like to upload my consciousness, and then when it’s technologically possible, have my consciousness live in some kind of humanoid vessel that can speak and move freely, and then that body can go to Mars and other planets with my mind inside it."

By Jon Christian

Neuralink co-founder Elon Musk says the brain-computer interface startup has implanted a monkey with a device that allows it to play games with its mind.
Elon Musk

"We have a monkey with a wireless implant in their skull with tiny wires who can play video games with his mind."

By Jon Christian

This brand new website pairs you "with a world-class barber" to "get your hair through these hard times" while quarantined.
Future Society

"You saved my life. My boyfriend looked hideous."

By Victor Tangermann

The space company and NASA contractor Nanoracks wants to build greenhouses in space to bolster food security in the face of climate change.
NASA

"COVID and the climate change really opened our eyes to the fragility of food security in both the developing and the developed world."

By Dan Robitzski

In a chat with Derek Muller's popular YouTube channel Veritasium, Bill Gates said that the world is facing two big threats: climate change and bioterrorism.
Developments

"Also related to pandemics is something people don't like to talk about much, which is bioterrorism."

By Victor Tangermann

Flat-earthers still somehow exist in 2021, so one guy wants to send one such conspiracy theorist to space to prove them wrong.
Off-World

"They call astronauts actors who are paid to lie and that boils my blood."

By Dan Robitzski

China's space agency has released amazing footage of its Tianwen-1 probe orbiting Mars. It shows an incredible amount of detail.
Mars

Watch the haunting new video of the Red Planet here.

By Victor Tangermann