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Programmer Stefan Thomas has thousands of Bitcoin tucked away, but he forgot his password and only has two guesses left before he loses it forever,
Bitcoin

If he guesses wrong, he'll lose out on nearly a quarter billion dollars.

By Dan Robitzski

Max Craddock was facing a ten year prison sentence in Italy after bringing his Boring Company Not a Flamethrower on a trip.
Elon Musk

"It’s not a weapon of war."

By Victor Tangermann

Disturbing footage shows a man in excruciating pain crawling out of a hospital after medical staff dismissed his pain as imaginary.
Health & Medicine

Doctors ignored the man's excruciating leg pain because he also happened to have a mental illness.

By Dan Robitzski

Bitcoin miners and PC gamers are keeping their homes warm using the heat generated by their computers, as The Wall Street Journal reports.
Science & Energy

Finally, a use for crypto mining.

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have spotted a new type of "spider star," highly energetic pulsars that tear up their companion stars, that defies classification.
Science & Energy

These cosmic monsters tear their companions to shreds.

By Victor Tangermann

Public health experts weigh in on how, specifically, President-elect Biden can get the coronavirus vaccine rollout on track.
Viruses

Biden could save the vaccine rollout — or accidentally make it far worse.

By Dan Robitzski

The average life expectancy in the United States dropped more sharply than it has in over 40 decades thanks to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Viruses

American life expectancy hasn't dropped this suddenly in decades.

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are monitoring various species of wildlife to track whether the coronavirus can jump among different kinds of animals.
Viruses

Scientists fear that interspecies mutations could defeat the vaccine.

By Dan Robitzski

A brain implant that delivers imperceptible, personalized electric shocks is successfully treating a woman with severe depression.
Neuroscience and Brain

"…I suddenly felt a genuine sense of glee and happiness, and the world went from shades of dark gray to just — grinning."

By Dan Robitzski

Man Accidentally Buried $275 Million of Bitcoin in Landfill
Bitcoin

Now he's desperately trying to dig the hard drive back up.

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists gene-hacked mice to produce a nerve-healing protein that treated their total paraplegia and allowed them to walk again.
RX and Medicine

If it works in humans, it could cure people who have been paralyzed by spinal cord injuries.

By Dan Robitzski

NASA has to prematurely shut down a critical "hot fire" test of the engines meant to one day carry the Orion spacecraft to the Moon.
Moon

Despite the fumble, the blast was quite the spectacle.

By Victor Tangermann

According to Russian state-owned news, hired assassins are taking cryptocurrencies as payment for their crimes making them extremely difficult to track.
Cryptocurrency

A Russian official says that contract killers have moved to the blockchain.

By Victor Tangermann

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

Health officials are furious and scrambling.

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new study, high-energy X-ray emissions around a group of neutron stars may be caused by axions, one of the top candidates for dark matter.
Science & Energy

"If we were 100% sure that what we are seeing is a new particle, that would be huge. That would be revolutionary in physics."

By Victor Tangermann

New research suggests that Toxoplasma gondii, the brain parasite infamously spread by pet cats, is linked to a greater risk of brain cancer.
Parasites

New research raises questions about cats and cancer.

By Dan Robitzski

The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office is operated at nearly double its usual capacity, and officials are scrambling to find new places to store bodies.
Developments

COVID patients in Los Angeles are dying too fast to even process the bodies.

By Dan Robitzski

One week after the pro-Trump insurrection at the U.S. Capitol building, a vast majority of Americans seemed to agree that the country is "falling apart."
Future Society

Without getting dramatic, this seems bad.

By Dan Robitzski

Canadian tinkerer Brydon Gibson, 24-year-old Ottawa native, has built himself a "jetpack" that can allow him to ice skate at up to 25 mph, the CBC reports.
Future Society

"I was actually getting a little scared at one point because I was going a little too fast."

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists developed a trick that generates methanol fuel out of water and carbon dioxide without using any fossil fuels.
Fossil Fuels

It pulls fuel out of the air — using only renewable energy.

By Dan Robitzski