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Getting a COVID-19 vaccine can be exhilarating. Not only from the personal security, but also the experience of a public health program actually working.
Viruses

People Are Experiencing a “Contact High” at Vaccination Centers

Truly getting high on life.

China's space station is preparing for the first crewed missions to launch and assemble its next space station, Tiangong-3.
Off-World

Chinese Astronauts Prepare To Assemble Space Station in Orbit

Here goes nothing!

The death count as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic has been astronomical — but there may be an even bigger threat facing humanity today.
Viruses

Something Else Killed Three Times as Many People As COVID This Year

And it's not going to go away any time soon.

A team of researchers have designed a personalized cancer vaccine capable of inducing a years-long immune response that fights off melanoma.
Cancer

Harvard Scientists Excited by Results on New Cancer Vaccine

A recent study of personalized cancer vaccines showed "very rewarding" results.

Hackers in China are recording sex tapes marketed as "home videos" from people's home security cameras. They claim to have thousands and thousands of them.
Science & Energy

Hackers Are Stealing Sex Vids From Home Security Systems and Selling Them

There's a huge underground market for secretly-filmed or hacked videos.

China's Tianwen-1 spacecraft currently orbiting Mars has snapped a pair of breathtaking pictures of a sunlit crescent Mars.
Mars

China’s Mars Probe Takes Breathtaking Picture of Crescent Mars

The mission's rover is getting ready to take the big plunge as soon as next month.

According to a high-ranking organizer, it's possible the Summer Olympics in Tokyo will be canceled due to the international coronavirus outbreak.
Developments

Japan Is Still Trying to Hold the Olympics in 2021

The Japanese government has already reserved 500 million vaccines.

The FDA has been investigating five cases of non-viral hepatitis, which resulted in acute liver failure. All of them drank "Real Water" alkalized water.
Developments

A Popular Brand of Bottled Water Got Linked to Liver Failure

"The whole manufacturing process is flawed in the first place."

A truck carrying barrels of uranium heafluoride, a radioactive ingredient used to make nuclear power plant fuel, crashed on Wednesday morning.
Science & Energy

Truck Carrying Uranium Crashes in North Carolina, Prompting HAZMAT Response

The raw ingredients for nuclear power plant fuel, thankfully, stayed contained.

Scientists accidentally discovered that their experimental gene therapy could restore a blind patient's vision for over 15 months.
Gene Editing

Gene Therapy Injected Into Eyeball Restores Blind Patient’s Vision

One shot granted more than a year of vision.

Here are some of the jests and gags that caught our attention during this year's April Fools' Day, ranging from poorly executed to a much-needed chuckle.
Future Society

10 of the Most Futuristic April Fools Jokes So Far

It's too bad some of these aren't real.

The Solar Orbiter, a NASA and ESA spacecraft that's exploring the Sun, is kept safe from heat and radiation by a coating of charred, ground-up bones.
Science & Energy

NASA’s Sun-Exploring Spacecraft Contains Powdered Bones

The Solar Orbiter is coated with charred bone, perhaps making it the most metal spacecraft in history.

According to the White House, the Biden administration is planning to invest in infrastructure to achieve "100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2035."
Energy

Biden Wants to Achieve “100 Percent Carbon-Free Electricity by 2035”

"If we act now, in 50 years people are going to look back and say: 'This was the moment that America won the future.'"

A team of German researchers have found that a highly controversial spacecraft thruster prototype called the EmDrive may not produce any thrust at all.
Physics

New Tests Cast Doubt On NASA’s Physics-Defying Thruster Design

"Our measurements refute all EmDrive claims by at least 3 orders of magnitude."

According to the latest drone shots, SpaceX is making great progress on its orbital launch facilities at its site in Boca Chica, Texas.
Starship

SpaceX Makes Progress on “Launch Tower” Meant to Catch Starship Booster

A bold plan is coming into focus.

For some reason, people love to vandalize Google offshoot Waymo's self-driving vehicles, especially by throwing eggs and ice cream.
Self-Driving Vehicles

People Are Throwing Eggs at Google’s Self-Driving Vans

A pre-emptive strike against the robot uprising.

Microsoft has been awarded a massive contract to supply the US Army with more than 120,000 augmented reality headsets, MSNBC reports.
Virtual Reality

Microsoft Is Selling $21.9 Billion of AR Headsets to the US Army

That's 120,000 headsets over ten years.

According to a new study by the CDC, those who have been vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccines produced by Moderna and Pfizer no longer carry the virus.
Viruses

Vaccinated People Don’t Appear to Spread COVID, and That’s Incredible News

"The authorized vaccines are the key tool that will help bring an end to this devastating pandemic."

Police in Shenzhen, China, shut the country's first sex doll hotel, one of two establishments where men can pay $28 to spend an hour with sex dolls.
Future Society

Police Shut Down China’s First Sex Doll Brothel

"It's not a working-class need. It's a male need."

A man referred to by the BBC as "Sebastian" lost over half a million dollars after falling for a Elon Musk-related Bitcoin giveaway scam.
Elon Musk

Man Loses Half a Million Dollars in Elon Musk Reply “Crypto Giveaway” Scam

"There was a link to a new event below, so I clicked on it and saw that he was giving away Bitcoin!"