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After six days of being wedged in the banks of the Suez Canal, the "Ever Given" finally broke free on Monday afternoon local time.
Robots and Machines

Watch the Amazing Moment as the Giant Ship Finally Gets Unstuck

Here's what it took to get it unstuck.

A YouTuber created an AI-powered computer that uses machine learning to shout compliments at dogs as they pass through his neighborhood.
Robot Dogs

New Machine Screams at Dogs About How Great They Are

This is probably the most wholesome use of AI ever.

A cross-sectional study of about 3,000 young men, their diets, and sperm have researchers thinking more about the adage "you are what you eat."
Developments

Humans Are Rapidly Losing the Ability to Procreate, Scientist Warns

The world is on track to be completely infertile by 2045, according to her projections.

Chief COVID Advisor: Trump Could Have Prevented Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths
Developments

Chief COVID Advisor: Trump Could Have Prevented Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths

Birx has been criticized for enabling the previous administration’s mishandling of the pandemic.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in unveiled plans to develop and launch a lunar lander capable of reaching the Moon by 2030.
Moon

South Korean President Announces Plans To Land On The Moon By 2030

This marks a major step forward for their domestic space program.

During a press conference, cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin told reporters that the leak on board the space station was a "scratch" about two to three cm long.
NASA

NASA Offers $400 Million for Companies to Build New Space Stations

“The ISS is an amazing system but, unfortunately, it won’t last forever.”

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

White House Considering Temporary Lift On COVID Vaccine IP Protections

The move would help poorer nations replicate and distribute more vaccines.

Elon Musk took some time on Friday evening to tweet out an image of a Transformers robot with an erection for... reasons.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Tweets Image of Robot With Genitals

It’s more than meats the eye.

YouTube says that there is a "disturbing trend" of staged animal rescue videos. Now, they're putting policy in place to identify and ban the videos.
Future Society

YouTube Banning Staged Animal Rescue Videos

The videos include puppies and rabbits being constricted by snakes.

Researchers have discovered a distant space object that is emitting ultra-low radio frequencies in the shape of a jellyfish.
Science & Energy

Strange, Distant Space Object Is Sending Out Ultra-Low Frequency Radio Signals

Researchers say the object looks like a cosmic jellyfish.

5 Ways Elon Musk Can Help the Ship Trapped in the Suez Canal
Elon Musk

5 Ways Elon Musk Can Help the Ship Trapped in the Suez Canal

Rockets are involved.

Some government agencies are standing in the way of efforts to catalog reports of "unidentified aerial phenomenon," Politico reports.
Off-World

Government Sources Say Military Is Holding Back Evidence of UFOs

What's the Pentagon hiding?

In 2018, Elon Musk implied that Tesla employees would lose their stock options if they unionized. Now, the federal government decided that he broke the law.
Elon Musk

Government Orders Elon Musk to Delete Anti-Union Tweet

The National Labor Relations Board decided a 2018 tweet violated the law.

A mysterious disease outbreak in Sokoto, Nigeria killed one student and infected 30 others. The government still doesn't know what it was.
Developments

Mystery Disease Outbreak Kills Girl in Nigeria, Sickens Dozens More

The Ministry of Health is still investigating.

German scientists have tested a special vaccine targeted at helping the body fight brain cancers for the first time in humans.
Cancer

Scientists Complete First Human Test of Vaccine Against Brain Cancer

"We were also able to demonstrate that the activated mutation-specific immune cells had invaded the brain tumor tissue."

Here's what people want to do with their time as soon as they're fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and can partially reenter society.
Developments

After Their Second Vaccine Kicks In, This Is How People Are Reentering Society

Abandoned rituals, long overdue reunions, and smooching all made the list.

Mathematician and astronomer Claudio Maccone published more research on how to defend Earth from asteroids with orbital missiles.
Off-World

Scientist: If Asteroids Threaten Earth, We Should Blow Them Up With Missiles

Claudio Maccone's grand plan is to station defensive missile silos in orbit.

In a now-deleted tweet, Tesla CEO Elon Musk claimed Tesla could become the "biggest company" and "probably within a few months."
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Deletes Tweet Claiming Tesla Could Become World’s Biggest Company in “Months”

Tesla has a long way to go.

A pair of underage teens in Daytona Beach, Florida, got caught driving a Tesla Model Y on the wrong side of the road. Their excuse: it was driving itself.
Tesla

Underage Teens Caught Joyriding Tesla, Claim It Was Driving Itself

They claim they were just along for the ride.

UK credit broker Money.co.uk outlined how much it would cost to get a mortgage for a house on the Moon. Their numbers are way off.
Moon

Ridiculous Analysis Claims You Could Build a House on the Moon for $60 Million

What a steal.