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Startup Unveils Rocket Capable of Sending Humans to Space
Off-World

Startup Unveils Rocket Capable of Sending Humans to Space

They say it can travel to Mars or even Venus.

By Victor Tangermann

The British military is running drills and combat exercises in virtual reality, using simulations that run on the Unreal Engine.
Virtual Reality

British Soldiers Training for Combat in Virtual Reality

They're running military drills on Oculus headsets.

By Dan Robitzski

Health officials in the UK are trying to get in touch with an individual who was infected with a new variant of the virus that originated in Brazil.
Developments

Officials Hunting For Missing Person Infected With New COVID Strain

"We need to find them as soon as possible."

By Victor Tangermann

Semi-retired WWE star Triple H publicly challenged scrawny billionaire Elon Musk to a fight on Mars.
Off-World

Pro Wrestler Challenges Elon Musk to Fight

"He’s a guy that sort of revolutionized the electric car all because he wanted to fly rockets to Mars. Big deal."

By Victor Tangermann

NASA embedded a secret code on the parachute of the Perseverance Mars rover to help inspire others. Here's exactly what it says.
Mars

All the Easter Eggs NASA Engineers Left on the Mars Rover

Here's what it — and all the other Easter Eggs they left — said.

By Tony Ho Tran

Kelley Aerospace has developed a combat drone capable of reaching supersonic speeds — and they already have 100 pre-orders for it.
Drones

Three Words: Supersonic. Combat. Drones.

Skynet in the sky, basically.

By Tony Ho Tran

The rats that survive eradication attempts could have sickly offspring — or they could produce "super rats" that are even harder to kill.
Studies

Study: Social Media Turns Us Into Hungry Rats Basically

We're all stuck in a digital "Skinner Box," researchers say.

By Tony Ho Tran

A team at Carnegie Mellon University has released an app that they say can determine whether you likely have COVID-19 — just by listening to your voice.
Developments

U.S. COVID Case Decline Has Stalled, Researchers Warn

“Now is not the time to relax restrictions.”

By Tony Ho Tran

Nevada's governor wants to establish innovation zones that'll give tech companies the ability to establish laws—and one crypto frim is interested.
Blockchain

Nevada Just Letting a Crypto Firm Run Entire Town as “Innovation Zone” (?!?)

The proposal will give tech companies power to create their own laws. Which, uhh.

By Tony Ho Tran

The Pentagon is considering launching a network of satellites that would be able to identify and track any acts of aggression in outer space.
Space

Study: The US Needs To Build More Space Weapons

The rise of anti-satellite weapons means we need more defenses to guard against threats.

By Tony Ho Tran

Zoom, the increasingly-popular video conferencing program, has extremely flawed cybersecurity in place. Companies like SpaceX have already banned it.
Studies

Study: “Zoom Fatigue” Exists—and It Totally Sucks

Even more, there are ways to prevent it — or at least mitigate its damage.

By Tony Ho Tran

For the first time ever, researchers were able to catch space-time crystals on camera using a transmission X-ray microscope.
Science & Energy

A Breakthrough: Actual Video of a Time Crystal

Woah.

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured a stunning photo of Venus during its flyby en route to the Sun—but there's something in it that has scientists excited.
Off-World

This Photo of Venus Shocked Scientists. Here’s Why.

The photo is part of a surprising twist involving a probe's camera.

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA released a stunning high-resolution panorama of the Martian surface taken by Perseverance's Mastcam-Z camera. It spotted a strangely shaped rock.
Mars

NASA Scientists Spot Strangely Shaped Rock in Latest Mars Panorama

What is that thing?

By Victor Tangermann

A trio of robotics executives share how they try to prevent their products from being misused once a customer buys them for whatever purposes.
Robotics

Robotics Executives: Here’s How to Keep Our Creations in Line

Who's responsible for all the robots among us?

By Dan Robitzski

Instead of finding one big black hole at the center of a cluster of 250,000 stars, a pair of astronomers found evidence of a school of smaller black holes.
Science & Energy

Astronomers Find Five Dozen Baby Black Holes in Distant Psychotic Chaos Galaxy

That's not what they were expecting at all.

By Victor Tangermann

Engineers figured out how to make smart tattoos with built in lights that could become useful medical sensors — or at the very least look extremely cool
Science & Energy

New Smart Tattoos Have Built-In Lights

Signing up for some (temporary) glowing knuckle tats.

By Dan Robitzski

After an internal and public outcry over how it mishandled AI ethics, Google is trying to save face and restore trust in its work.
Google

Google Promised Staff They’ll Be Less Evil With AI

It's a weird promise to make after firing its AI ethicists.

By Dan Robitzski

A space colonization company called Orbital Assembly Corporation has some incredibly bold plans to turn science fiction into reality.
Space

Company Has Ambitious Plan to Build Private Space Station with Artificial Gravity

"This will be the next industrial revolution."

By Victor Tangermann

A team of Japanese scientists simulated 4,000 entirely new universes to try and understand what happened in the earliest moments of ours.
Science & Energy

Scientists Simulate Thousands of New Universes to Understand How Ours Began

"We are trying to do something like guessing a baby photo of our universe from the latest picture."

By Dan Robitzski