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NASA is paying startups for any Moon dust they collect on missions scheduled for the next few years, but the payment is largely symbolic.
Moon

Okay, that seems low.

By Dan Robitzski

The Inouye Solar Telescope, the largest solar observatory in the world, just released the first-ever image of a sunspot.
Science & Energy

The Sun is a truly chaotic place.

By Victor Tangermann

China plans to expand its weather modification system to cover 5.5 million square miles. Neighboring India is worried it could become a weapon.
Environment

Experts say it could spur conflict with a neighboring country.

By Dan Robitzski

John Ratcliffe, the U.S. national intelligence cirector, wrote in an op-ed that China experimented on military members to try and create supersoldiers.
Genetics

"U.S. intelligence shows that China has even conducted human testing on members of the People’s Liberation Army in hope of developing soldiers with biologically enhanced capabilities."

By Dan Robitzski

Alabama-based startup Aevum has unveiled a fully autonomous drone designed to release satellite-launching rockets in midair — and its an absolute monster.
Drones

An absolute unit.

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new book, Chinese scientist He Jiankui had the support of several Communist Party officials while working on his gene-editing experiments.
Gene Editing

The Chinese government later distanced itself from the controversial experiments.

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists working at the Arecibo Observatory, right until it collapsed earlier this month, are calling for the massive radio telescope to be rebuilt.
Science & Energy

"With the appropriate funding, we have a viable path towards reconstruction."

By Victor Tangermann

Former U.S. Presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama agreed to take the COVID-19 vaccine in public to bolster confidence that it's safe.
Viruses

And they'll do it on camera.

By Dan Robitzski

On Wednesday, Google fired a prominent AI ethicist at the company who had spoken out about diversity and censorship within the company.
Google

AI ethicist Timnit Gebru says Google censored her work.

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers from University of Science and Technology of China have just claimed quantum supremacy using a photon-based quantum computer.
Quantum Physics

Chinese researchers say they've blown Google's quantum system out of the water.

By Victor Tangermann

By reversing molecular changes that happen naturally with age, a team of scientists restored vision to blind mice that they made more genetically youthful.
Gene Editing

In key ways, the mice started to appear younger.

By Dan Robitzski

Newly released footage, including several drone shots, shows the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico collapsing in on itself.
Science & Energy

Ugh, that sound is horrifying.

By Victor Tangermann

The European Space Agency compiled the most detailed map of the Milky Way galaxy in history, plotting the location and course of nearly 2 billion stars.
Science & Energy

You can check it out right here.

By Dan Robitzski

China has confirmed that its Chang'e-5 lunar lander's ascent vehicle has taken off, bringing with it the first lunar samples since the 1970s.
Off-World

Well, that was fast.

By Victor Tangermann

China's lunar lander Chang'e-5 just beamed back color photos of the surface of the Moon — and they're a lot more beige than what you'd expect.
Moon

Wait, isn't the Moon supposed to be gray?

By Victor Tangermann

MIT Team “Accidentally” Invents Blackest Material in Existence
Science & Energy

Step aside, Vantablack.

By Kristin Houser

Astrophysics professor Ray Norris discusses how he and his colleagues spotted strange, unusually shaped objects in recent radio astronomical data.
Science & Energy

"None of us had ever seen anything like it before, and we had no idea what it was."

By Victor Tangermann

A third monolith appeared on top of Pine Mountain in Atascadero, California, as spotted by local news correspondent Connor Allen. 
Robots and Machines

A third monolith has appeared.

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new book, of course they do. Routinely! According to a phenomenal rundown of booze in space on Supercluster, astronauts are saucing in space all the time.
Off-World

We're just learning this now. And don't lie: You would too.

By Foster Kamer

To help his war veteran father with PTSD, Tyler Skluzacek invented a smartwatch that can disrupt nightmares by measuring heart rate and body movements.
Devices

Bad dreams? There's a gadget for that.

By Victor Tangermann