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In a now deleted tweet, Tesla CEO Elon Musk elaborated on the Boring Company's vision in the future: "We will make a dense Tesla if it matters."
Tesla

Did Elon just reveal plans for a Tesla bus?

By Victor Tangermann

German automaker Audi has introduced new LED headlights can project images just like a movie projector for its new lineup of electric SUVs.
Advanced Transport

Okay, this is pretty cool.

By Victor Tangermann

Research shows that fracking releases airborne radioactivity that can be carried great distances to nearby towns on the wind.
Energy

"If you asked me to go and live downwind [of fracking sites], I would not go."

By Dan Robitzski

The ESA is experimenting with satellites that use flax fiber instead of steel-like carbon fibers so that they incinerate easier upon retirement.
ESA

Welcome to 2020, where satellites are made out of plants.

By Dan Robitzski

In a Fox News interview over the phone on Sunday, Trump was asked why the Department of Defense has set up a UFO task force. His answer was perplexing.
Military

Trump is going to have "a good, strong look" to see if there are UFOs.

By Victor Tangermann

On Twitter, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk showed off a picture of the underside of the SN8 Starship prototype, featuring three massive Raptor engines.
Starship

SpaceX is inching closer to its most spectacular Starship test flight yet.

By Victor Tangermann

A Soyuz launched a NASA astronaut to the ISS, the last time NASA paid for an American astronaut to fly with the Russian space corporation, Roscosmos.
NASA

From Russia with love, for one last time.

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is now running underwater tests for the spacesuits it plans on using for the upcoming series of Artemis missions to the Moon.
Moon

It's getting real.

By Dan Robitzski

The US Army is developing augmented reality goggles for dogs to help protect their human guardians by allowing them to command the dog from a distance.
Military

"This new technology offers us a critical tool to better communicate with military working dogs."

By Victor Tangermann

A Native American tribe in Washington state just got a major internet upgrade, getting early access to SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet.
Future Society

"It seemed like out of nowhere SpaceX just came up and catapulted us into the 21st century."

By Victor Tangermann

Mercedes-Benz has teased a new electric car concept called Vision EQXX with a whopping 750 miles of range on a single charge.
Advanced Transport

The company wants to develop "the longest-range and highest-efficiency electric car the world has ever seen."

By Victor Tangermann

A startup called Bolt Threads is using a special kind of fiber made from mycelium, the underpinning of mushrooms, to create "Mylo," a leather-like material.
Science & Energy

Move aside, pleather — mushroom leather is here.

By Victor Tangermann

The galaxy Dragonfly 44, which scientists said had a baffling 10,000-to-one ratio of dark matter to visible matter, may not be so unique after all.
Physics

"Our work shows that this galaxy is not so singular nor unexpected."

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's four-wheeled rover called DuAxel can split into two separate two-wheeled rovers, and is intended to explore hard to reach places in faraway places.
Mars

Watch it split in half — and continue the mission.

By Victor Tangermann

Google’s Parent Company Is Building a Farming Robot
Robotics

Is "computational agriculture" the future of the food industry?

By Victor Tangermann

A coronavirus patient caught the disease on two separate occasions, and the second time around was even more severe than the first.
Viruses

"Our findings signal that a previous infection may not necessarily protect against future infection."

By Dan Robitzski

A new colonoscopy robot sounds terrifying, but it might actually make for a smoother ride than having a human doctor steer the endoscope.
RX and Medicine

What could possibly go wrong?

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists built tiny sensors that can safely detach and fall to the ground after a moth carries it to some hard-to-reach destination.
Robots and Machines

An army of moths would drop sensors like tiny drones.

By Dan Robitzski

Columbia University astronomer David Kipping argues that there's about a 50-50 chance we are living inside a simulation, but we don't know for sure.
Science & Energy

He did the math.

By Victor Tangermann

The European Space Agency's Space Debris Office is warning that the risk of space debris explosions in orbit is on the rise.
Off-World

"The biggest contributor to the current space debris problem is explosions in orbit."

By Victor Tangermann