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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."

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."

New studies show that people who already recovered from COVID-19 and have antibodies in their system get "robust" protection from a single Pfizer dose.
Viruses

Single Pfizer Dose “Robust” For Those Who Have Had COVID

This is actually great news, for a change.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk isn't afraid of the Securities and Exchange Commission coming after him for tweets about the cryptocurrency dogecoin.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Invites SEC Into Battle Over Dogecoin, Because ??!??!?!??!

"I hope they do! It would be awesome."

Russian engineers built a bizarre pilotless aircraft that flies by flapping its six wings like a gigantic, terrifying dragonfly.
Robots and Machines

Look At This Horrifying Aircraft That Flaps Its Wings Like a Dragonfly

The aircraft Serenity takes biological inspiration to new extremes.

Scientists found ancient dust that they say is conclusive evidence an asteroid killed the dinosaurs tens of millions of years ago.
Science & Energy

Scientists Find Smoking Gun Evidence in Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Case

The cold case was reopened thanks to new evidence: asteroid dust inside the ancient impact crater.

Bill Gates wants everyday Bitcoin investors to remember that Elon Musk can afford to cut and run, but they likely cannot.
Elon Musk

Bill Gates: You Should Probably Not Follow Elon Musk ‘To The Moon’ On BTC

Repeat after me: Elon Musk is a mega-billionaire; we are not the same.

A compact electric vehicle that costs just $4,500 is vastly outselling Tesla's vehicles in China, the BBC reports.
Tesla

This $4,500 EV Is Now Outselling Tesla in China

Move aside, Tesla.

Moderna has announced it has created the first batch its new COVID-19 vaccine that protects people against a deadly new variant from South Africa.
Developments

Moderna Testing New Vaccine Designed to Protect Against Deadly Variant

Round two in the fight against the coronavirus has officially begun.

Philippines-based PDAX, Southeast Asia's largest crypto exchange, just accidentally sold bitcoin at an incredible 88 percent discount, for just $6,000.
Bitcoin

Whoops: Crypto Exchange Accidentally Sells Bitcoin at 88% Discount

They want their bitcoin back, please.

It turns out that the artificial intelligence algorithm GPT-3 is perfectly capable of writing college papers, as long as you don't mind a mediocre GPA.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Will Give Perfectly Accurate Half-Assed Effort In Writing Your Term Paper

And you don’t even have to pay it in weed and Adderall.

Mounting a paintball gun to the back of Boston Dynamics' Spot robot dog is taking the technology to its logical conclusion. The company thinks otherwise.
Future Society

Boston Dynamics Mad Someone Used Their Terrifying RoboDog as Intended

It's a gross double standard.

According to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, one of the company's floating platforms could be "in limited operation by end of year."
Starship

Elon Musk: Starship Floating Launchpad to Start Operation by “End of Year”

SpaceX plans to fly its Starship prototypes out to floating platforms at sea.

As if launching a 165-foot rocket wasn't complicated enough, SpaceX now has to contend itself with extreme winter weather hitting its Texas facilities.
Starship

SpaceX Starship Testing Shut Down by Huge Snowstorm

Freak weather in Texas is wreaking havoc with SpaceX's operations.

New NASA research suggests that Mars' dust storms make the planet give off gravitational waves that push its already-scarce atmosphere out into space.
Mars

Mars Is Radiating Gravity Waves, Which Is Bad News For Human Settlers

Mars is beautiful, sure — and unimaginably brutal.

Since they peaked in the middle of January, the number of new daily coronavirus infections deaths has been in consistent decline.
Developments

COVID Deaths Have Dropped Dramatically Since January

Knock on wood, but it looks like the third wave is finally coming to an end.

The heart failure drug ivabradine seems to treat the long-hauler symptoms that can last for months after a coronavirus infection.
Viruses

Doctors Find Drug That Seems to Treat Long-Hauler COVID Symptoms

Options are starting to emerge for long-term coronavirus care.

Bill Gates is coming down hard in favor of fake meats — and even recommending that every single "rich country" move away from real beef as soon as possible.
Future Society

Bill Gates Says All Wealthy Nations Should Switch to Synthetic Beef

"I do think all rich countries should move to 100 percent synthetic beef."

Stray dogs with strangely bright blue fur have been spotted roaming the streets near an abandoned chemical plant in the Russian city of Dzerzhinsk.
Science & Energy

Blue Dogs Discovered Near Abandoned Chemical Plant

Well, that's not right.

A team of scientists have successfully tested a solar panel prototype that can theoretically send electricity from space back to anywhere on Earth.
Military

US Military Tests Satellite for Beaming Power Down to Earth

"You can send power to Chicago and a fraction of a second later, if you needed, send it instead to London or Brasilia."