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When Tesla CEO Elon Musk moved to Austin, Texas earlier this year, he likely couldn't have predicted a cold snap that brought the state to its knees.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk, Who Moved to TX For Less Regulation, Is Furious That the Power Went Down

It's almost like regulations exist for a reason.

By Victor Tangermann

Futurism reached out to a variety of planetary scientists to ask whether the donut looked like an accurate model of the Red Planet.
Mars

Here’s What Planetary Scientists Think of Krispy Kreme’s Mars Donut

"Mars is not actually coated with caramel or filled with chocolate cream."

By Jon Christian

Just minutes after touchdown was confirmed, NASA's Perseverance rover sent back two low-resolution images of the surface of Mars.
Mars

NASA Rover Releases First Photos From the Surface of Mars

The dust hadn't even cleared.

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has successfully landed in the Jezero crater, a region believed to be an ancient dried up river delta.
Mars

BREAKING: NASA Successfully Lands Perseverance Rover On Mars

Amazing!

By Victor Tangermann

Steve Jurczyk was catapulted from third-in-line to acting leader of NASA when Biden took office. Here's some of what we know about him and his leadership.
NASA

Seven Facts About the New Head of NASA, Steve Jurczyk

The new leader of NASA appears to have deleted his Twitter account — and other facts you probably didn't know.

By Dan Robitzski

When Perseverance lands, NASA engineers will need to start living and working on Mars time to make the most of the mission's beginning.
Mars

NASA Scientists Need to Live and Work on “Mars Time”

The Perseverance rover doesn't care about your nine-to-five.

By Dan Robitzski

Russian physicist  Egor Loktionov is suggesting to use space-based lasers to melt non-operational satellites into plasma as a way to clean up Earth's orbit.
Off-World

Russian Scientist Proposes Using Lasers to Melt Space Junk

That's one way to do it.

By Victor Tangermann

Here's how to follow NASA's daring Perseverance Mars rover landing this afternoon. It's the most difficult landing on the Red Planet ever attempted.
Mars

How to Watch NASA’s Perseverance Rover Land on Mars

We've waited years for this day.

By Victor Tangermann

New coronavirus infections in the United States and around the world dropped by a significant number over the previous week.
Viruses

Coronavirus Cases Around the World Are Finally Dropping

Something very interesting happened the day that infections started to fall.

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new report, the COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by Pfizer and BioNTech is 93 percent effective after just one out of two doses.
Developments

Pfizer Says Its COVID Vaccine Is 93% Effective After Just One Shot

And there's even more good news.

By Victor Tangermann

Computer scientist and investor Sailesh Ramakrishnan says that the space industry is about to see a "gold rush" that will transform off-world exploration
NASA

Former NASA Scientist Predicts “Gold Rush” in Space

"I'm not saying we'll find aliens in five years or anything like that. But space will touch every part of our lives."

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover will attempt to land in some of the most challenging Martian terrain tomorrow. Luckily, it's prepared.
Mars

Tomorrow’s Mars Landing Will Be Hardest in NASA’s History

Luckily, it's fully prepared.

By Victor Tangermann

New York just sued Amazon over its failure to protect warehouse workers from the coronavirus and for punishing anyone who spoke out.
Viruses

New York State Sues Amazon Over Coronavirus Protocols

"Since the pandemic began, it is clear that Amazon has valued profit over people and has failed to ensure the health and safety of its workers."

By Dan Robitzski

Severe cases of COVID-19 might lead to the formation of growths called nodules behind people's eyeballs, but scientists aren't yet sure what that means.
Viruses

Severe COVID-19 Might Lead to Strange Growths Behind the Eyes

"If persisting, [they] might potentially lead to severe vision loss or even blindness."

By Dan Robitzski

A researcher has discovered "pretty clear" evidence of a new hybrid version of the coronavirus that resulted from two variants combining their genomes.
Developments

Two COVID Strains Appear to Have Merged Into a “Heavily Mutated” Hybrid

In virology, everything is always changing.

By Victor Tangermann

Russia has tentatively agreed to collaborate on an upcoming lunar base with China, threatening NASA's position as the world's top space agency.
Off-World

China and Russia Agree to Collaborate on Lunar Base

China's space program is increasingly dominant.

By Dan Robitzski

British scientists are cleared to begin a human challenge study on the coronavirus, in which volunteers are willingly infected in a controlled environment.
Viruses

Scientists Are About to Give Research Subjects COVID on Purpose

Is this ethical?

By Dan Robitzski

A new artificial intelligence algorithm can create full human genomes indistinguishable from the real thing, but it's not clear how useful it is.
Artificial Intelligence

New Algorithm Generates Synthetic Human Genetic Code

They say the fake DNA is indistinguishable from the real thing.

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says there's a 60 percent chance Starship will land successfully this time — leaving a 40 percent chance of failure.
Starship

Elon Musk: Next Starship Test Has 60% Chance of Not Exploding

So you're telling us there's a chance?

By Jon Christian

After making its beta available to roughly 10,000 customers, SpaceX is again accepting preorders of its Starlink broadband internet service for $99.
Future Society

SpaceX Is Now Taking Starlink Preorders

Get it while it's hot.

By Victor Tangermann