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Perseverance Drops Off Ingenuity Helicopter On Martian Surface
Off-World

Perseverance Drops Off Ingenuity Helicopter On Martian Surface

Now the helicopter must survive a few very cold nights on Mars by itself.

By Tony Ho Tran

A new study published in Psychology & Marketing found that users tend to perceive female robots as having more human traits than male robots.
Robotics

Study: Turns Out People Are Sexist To Female Robots Too

Users perceived female AI as being warmer and more trustworthy.

By Tony Ho Tran

Deaths, injuries, and suicide attempts have landed Amazon on a list of the country’s most dangerous employers according to a new report from The Guardian.
Science & Energy

Amazon Admits It Was Fibbing About the Pee Thing

The company has yet to apologize to its workers.

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA recently ran a ground test for the propulsion system on their Gateway lunar orbiter. It'll allow the future space station to explore the Moon.
NASA

NASA Tests Propulsion System for Lunar Space Station

The system will allow the space station to explore the lunar surface.

By Tony Ho Tran

Mars Lander Detects Mysterious “Marsquakes”
Mars

Mars Lander Detects Mysterious “Marsquakes”

NASA says they're two of the best quakes ever detected on the Red Planet.

By Tony Ho Tran

The gigantic blobs buried within the Earth's mantle, thought to be fragments of the ancient protoplanet Theia, are unfathomably huge.
Science & Energy

Pieces of Alien Planet Buried Inside Earth Are “Millions of Times Larger Than Mount Everest”

An ancient collision may have left giant chunks of another world buried beneath our feet.

By Dan Robitzski

NASA has been teasing that there are two yet-undiscovered Easter eggs on its Perseverance Rover. Anyone who wants to find them has until Easter to try.
Mars

NASA Says There Are Still Easter Eggs on Its Mars Rover That Nobody Has Discovered

The space agency is teasing a big Easter reveal.

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists argue that entirely space-based space elevators could greatly enhance our ability to send payloads into orbit.
Off-World

Professor Says We Could Already Build a Floating Space Elevator

The tech is already here, he says.

By Victor Tangermann

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.

By Dan Robitzski

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!

By Dan Robitzski

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.

By Victor Tangermann

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.

By Victor Tangermann

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.

By Dan Robitzski

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.

By Victor Tangermann

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.

By Dan Robitzski

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."

By Victor Tangermann

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.

By Dan Robitzski

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.

By Dan Robitzski

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.

By Victor Tangermann

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.

By Dan Robitzski