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In a new ad, Ford showed off its massive electric F-150 truck tearing through a winter wonderland, drifting around a frozen lake track like a pro.
Advanced Transport

Drifting through a winter wonderland.

By Victor Tangermann

A new nanomaterial biosensor can spot coronavirus antibodies — and track whether the vaccine is working — in ten seconds.
Viruses

"Because our technique can quantify the immune response to vaccination, it is very relevant in the current environment."

By Dan Robitzski

Harvard astrophysics professor Avi Loeb called on the scientific community to search not just for mysterious radio signals, but for alien probes as well.
Science & Energy

An interstellar object could be a "message in a bottle."

By Victor Tangermann

A team of Oxford scientists found a way to take carbon dioxide and turn it back into jet fuel, potentially cleaning up the aviation industry.
Climate Change

"This does look different, and it looks like it could work."

By Dan Robitzski

A close look at an asteroid fragment revealed crystals that likely formed on an ancient, long-gone dwarf planet-sized object.
Solar Power

"Our surprising result suggests the existence of a large, water-rich parent body."

By Dan Robitzski

Startup Jupe is selling prefabricated portable shelters that were designed by ex-Tesla and SpaceX designers. And they come wtih an "average-sized monolith."
Tesla

For $17,500, you get a furnished pod — which can even come with solar and WiFi.

By Victor Tangermann

NASA euthanized all 27 of its primates at the agency's Ames research center in California in February 2019, The Guardian reports.
Future Society

"Shame on those responsible."

By Victor Tangermann

Roscosmos director general Dmitry Rogozin is furious that the U.S. government imposed sanctions on the company that makes the Soyuz rocket.
Off-World

He says the sanctions are "illegal" and "stupid."

By Dan Robitzski

The massive, almost-certainly-Russian hack on the U.S. fedearl government compromised high-level networks used by the Treasury Department.
Science & Energy

They still don't know the full extent of the damage.

By Dan Robitzski

The SETI Institute has finally chimed in on the mysterious discovery of a signal emanating from the Sun's closest star neighbor Proxima Centauri.
Science & Energy

"The idea of a technologically advanced civilization living around our nearest stellar neighbor is quite extraordinary."

By Victor Tangermann

A Chilean research base on Antarctica reported 36 new infections, including 26 members of the Chilean army and 10 maintenance workers.
Viruses

It's the last continent to be infected.

By Victor Tangermann

Lawmakers have smuggled in legislation into the COVID-19 stimulus bill that would make profiting off of illegal streaming a felony.
Future Society

What does streaming have to do with helping Americans deal with the pandemic?

By Victor Tangermann

On Monday, Biden received the first of two shots that make up the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. He was inoculated on camera to boost public trust in the shot.
Viruses

"There's nothing to worry about."

By Dan Robitzski

According to a Reuters exclusive, tech giant Apple is planning to produce a self-driving passenger car to be released in 2024.
Self-Driving Vehicles

"Like the first time you saw the iPhone."

By Victor Tangermann

Ultrasensitive COVID-19 tests based on the popular gene-editing technique CRISPR could be just around the corner, as IEEE Spectrum reports.
Prosthetics and Devices

All you need is an at-home kit and a smartphone app.

By Victor Tangermann

A physics student used a scanning tunneling microscope to built a "Christmas tree" that's barely thicker than a DNA strand.
Science & Energy

It's just a handful of atoms wide.

By Dan Robitzski

Famed Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tim Draper just made major investments in jetpack suit companies JetPack Aviation and Gravity Industrie
Tesla

"Imagine you can just strap on a jetsuit and take off and fly where ever you want to go."

By Victor Tangermann

The head of Russia's space program, Dmitry Rogozin, took a jab at SpaceX, implying that the U.S.-based company couldn't handle the work done by Roscosmos.
SpaceX

The head of Russia's space program is beefing with SpaceX again.

By Dan Robitzski

Arctic sea ice caps are influencing weather elsewhere.
Environment

Another black eye for the prestigious MIT.

By Victor Tangermann

A restaurant in Singapore just became the first in the world to serve a "chicken nugget" made of lab-grown chicken meat made by US-based startup Eat Just.
Science & Energy

"I'm speechless."

By Victor Tangermann