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Scientists in New Zealand are bombarding rooftops with volcanic rock to help the area prepare for any potential future eruptions.
Science & Energy

Scientists Fire Volcanic Rocks at Rooftops to Prove Volcanoes Are Dangerous

Trust us, it's for science.

NASA's Juno spacecraft reportedly detected an FM radio signal coming from the Jovian moon Ganymede, local Utah news station KTVX reports.
Science & Energy

NASA Reportedly Detects Signal Coming From One of Jupiter’s Moons

"It’s not E.T."

Programmer Stefan Thomas has thousands of Bitcoin tucked away, but he forgot his password and only has two guesses left before he loses it forever,
Bitcoin

Man Has Only Two Password Guesses Left to Recover $236 Million in Bitcoin

If he guesses wrong, he'll lose out on nearly a quarter billion dollars.

Max Craddock was facing a ten year prison sentence in Italy after bringing his Boring Company Not a Flamethrower on a trip.
Elon Musk

Man Faced 10 Year Sentence for Wielding Elon Musk Flamethrower

"It’s not a weapon of war."

Disturbing footage shows a man in excruciating pain crawling out of a hospital after medical staff dismissed his pain as imaginary.
Health & Medicine

Video Shows Agonized Man Crawling Out of Hospital

Doctors ignored the man's excruciating leg pain because he also happened to have a mental illness.

Bitcoin miners and PC gamers are keeping their homes warm using the heat generated by their computers, as The Wall Street Journal reports.
Science & Energy

Bitcoin Miners Are Heating Chicken Coops With Their Rigs

Finally, a use for crypto mining.

Astronomers have spotted a new type of "spider star," highly energetic pulsars that tear up their companion stars, that defies classification.
Science & Energy

Astronomers Discover “Spider Stars” That Tear Apart Other Stars

These cosmic monsters tear their companions to shreds.

Public health experts weigh in on how, specifically, President-elect Biden can get the coronavirus vaccine rollout on track.
Viruses

Here’s How Biden Could Save the Coronavirus Vaccine Rollout

Biden could save the vaccine rollout — or accidentally make it far worse.

The average life expectancy in the United States dropped more sharply than it has in over 40 decades thanks to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Viruses

COVID-19 Slashed the US Life Expectancy by More Than a Year

American life expectancy hasn't dropped this suddenly in decades.

Scientists are monitoring various species of wildlife to track whether the coronavirus can jump among different kinds of animals.
Viruses

Scientists Systematically Hunting for COVID-19 in Wild Animals

Scientists fear that interspecies mutations could defeat the vaccine.

A brain implant that delivers imperceptible, personalized electric shocks is successfully treating a woman with severe depression.
Neuroscience and Brain

Brain Implant Successfully Fights Off Depression, Scientists Say

"…I suddenly felt a genuine sense of glee and happiness, and the world went from shades of dark gray to just — grinning."

Man Accidentally Buried $275 Million of Bitcoin in Landfill
Bitcoin

Man Accidentally Buried $275 Million of Bitcoin in Landfill

Now he's desperately trying to dig the hard drive back up.

Scientists gene-hacked mice to produce a nerve-healing protein that treated their total paraplegia and allowed them to walk again.
RX and Medicine

Genetic Engineering Makes Paralyzed Mice Walk Again

If it works in humans, it could cure people who have been paralyzed by spinal cord injuries.

NASA has to prematurely shut down a critical "hot fire" test of the engines meant to one day carry the Orion spacecraft to the Moon.
Moon

NASA Bungles Critical Engine Test For New Moon Rocket

Despite the fumble, the blast was quite the spectacle.

According to Russian state-owned news, hired assassins are taking cryptocurrencies as payment for their crimes making them extremely difficult to track.
Cryptocurrency

Russia Complains That Assassins Are Getting Paid in Cryptocurrencies

A Russian official says that contract killers have moved to the blockchain.

A COVID-19 reserve held back intended to be used as second booster shots by the Trump administration doesn't actually exist, the Washington Post reports.
Developments

Report: Trump Admin’s Promised COVID Vaccine Reserve Doesn’t Exist

Health officials are furious and scrambling.

According to a new study, high-energy X-ray emissions around a group of neutron stars may be caused by axions, one of the top candidates for dark matter.
Science & Energy

Distant Neutron Stars May Offer Clue About the Truth of Dark Matter

"If we were 100% sure that what we are seeing is a new particle, that would be huge. That would be revolutionary in physics."

New research suggests that Toxoplasma gondii, the brain parasite infamously spread by pet cats, is linked to a greater risk of brain cancer.
Parasites

Parasite Spread to Humans by Pet Cats Linked to Brain Cancer

New research raises questions about cats and cancer.

The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office is operated at nearly double its usual capacity, and officials are scrambling to find new places to store bodies.
Developments

Los Angeles Is Literally Running Out of Space to Store Dead Bodies

COVID patients in Los Angeles are dying too fast to even process the bodies.

One week after the pro-Trump insurrection at the U.S. Capitol building, a vast majority of Americans seemed to agree that the country is "falling apart."
Future Society

79 Percent of Americans Say US Is Falling Apart

Without getting dramatic, this seems bad.