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Scientists discovered an ancient, long-gone tectonic plate that they say explains the volcanoes around the northern Pacific.
Science & Energy

*Spooky tectonic plate noises*

By Dan Robitzski

A search for potential extraterrestrial life on Venus came back with nothing, suggesting variability on the planet or that the first disovery was an error.
Science & Energy

A team of Harvard-Smithsonian researchers has some disappointing news.

By Dan Robitzski

Boston Dynamics will sell accessories for its robodog Spot, including charging bricks, camera kits — and even a prehensile arm.
Boston Dynamics

Even robot dogs have the right to bear arms.

By Victor Tangermann

Hacker Says He Got Into Trump’s Twitter Account
Hacking

He says Trump had a weak password and no two-factor authentication.

By Victor Tangermann

Engineer Alexandre Milovanoff argues that electric cars won't stop climate change becuase private cars are inherently a problem.
Climate Change

Private vehicles are a problem regardless of their fuel source.

By Dan Robitzski

NASA has finally released footage from when its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft touched down on asteroid Bennu's surface to collect a bunch of space rocks.
Science & Energy

Boosh!

By Victor Tangermann

Video footage of GM's driverless cars shows some troubling behavior as well as multiple near-accidents on public streets.
Advanced Transport

They're months old, but it's troubling to see this on public streets.

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers at MIT have created an AI that is capable of automatically deciphering long lost languages.
Artificial Intelligence

Countless languages haven't been spoken in millennia, but AI could uncover their mysteries.

By Victor Tangermann

A scientist who won an Ig Nobel for his work on vibrating earthworms with a speaker say their research may be the key to brain-computer interface.
Science & Energy

Hear him out!

By Dan Robitzski

In a world's first, a team of scientists at Purdue University has built a tiny flipping microrobot that can be operated inside a colon of a living animal.
Robotics

Its inventors say that a living colon is "rough terrain."

By Victor Tangermann

Dr. Eric Topol says that, based on existing numbers, the odds of catching COVID-19 a second time after recovering are about one in a million.
Developments

"There may be more but [reinfection] appears to be exceedingly rare to date, like ~1 in a million."

By Dan Robitzski

A placebo-controlled study identified which impacts of microdosing LSD, from improved focus to anxiety, emerge at which dosages.
RX and Medicine

Here are the doses they tried.

By Dan Robitzski

General Motors has finally revealed its fully electrified take on the long-retired-but-not-forgotten Hummer brand, the Hummer EV.
Advanced Transport

Is this the Cybertruck killer we've been waiting for?

By Victor Tangermann

The engineers behind the YouTube "the Hacksmith" have crafted a real-world "Star Wars"-style lightsaber that burns hot enough to cut through steel.
Robots and Machines

An elegant weapon, for a more civilized age.

By Victor Tangermann

For the first time, scientists build a superconducting material that works at room temperature, albeit under extremely high pressures.
Science & Energy

The scientist behind it says to get ready for a "society where you'll never need things like batteries again."

By Dan Robitzski

A team of German physicists managed to pack up light — and unpack it 1.2 millimeters away without altering it in the process.
Quantum Physics

"We stored the light by putting it in a suitcase so to speak, only that in our case the suitcase was made of a cloud of cold atoms."

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk announced on Twitter today that the Tesla Model S "Long Range" sedan is getting a price cut to $69,420, just undercutting competitor Lucid.
Elon Musk

Nice.

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX just partnered with the U.S. military to build a rocket that could ship weapons anywhere in the world in one hour.
Military

SpaceX is promising the Pentagon one-hour weapon delivery around the globe.

By Dan Robitzski

For its first time, NASA has successfully collected samples from the surface of an asteroid using the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on Tuesday.
NASA

"We did it."

By Victor Tangermann

The International Space Station crew had a rough night. The same day they finally found an air leak, an oxygen system, toilet, and oven all broke down.
Off-World

If you thought getting your landlord to fix something was hard down on Earth...

By Dan Robitzski