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The CEO of space startup Rocket Lab Peter Beck told CNN that space in Earth's orbit is becoming worryingly congested.
Off-World

Well, this is ironic.

By Victor Tangermann

Doctors studying the cadavers of people who died from COVID-19 identified traces of the coronavirus in half of their brains.
Viruses

"In this case series, we show that the virus gains access to the brainstem."

By Dan Robitzski

China announced the next 18 astronauts that its space agency selected to serve on Tiangong-3, the space station planned for launch in the coming years.
Off-World

It's going to be crowded up there.

By Dan Robitzski

NASA Spacecraft Finds Evidence of Ancient Rivers on Asteroid
Science & Energy

The team is calling it a "major scientific triumph" for NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.

By Victor Tangermann

Extended trips in space could make the heart age faster, because it gets used to not having to work as hard in zero gravity.
Space

It's like a sped up version of aging, the scientists say.

By Dan Robitzski

NASA Invests in 3D Printing Space Habitat Technology
NASA

Is this what our future on the Moon looks like?

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX made its "best and final offer" to the remaining residents of Boca Chica, Texas, but residents say they're being lowballed and mistreated.
SpaceX

Elon Musk's plan to buy a small town hit a snag: the people who still live there.

By Dan Robitzski

A new delivery mechanism for gene-editing enzymes allows doctors to target specific kinds of cells or regions of the brain.
Gene Editing

It's the first gene-hacking tool that targets specific cells.

By Dan Robitzski

Physician Ali Vaziri accidentally "butt-dialed" himself into a $4,2080 "Enhanced Autopilot" upgrade for his Tesla Model 3, CNBC reports.
Tesla

"The customer service is horrendous."

By Victor Tangermann

Virgin Hyperloop One has announced it is planning to build a certification center in West Virginia with construction of a test loop starting in 2022.
Hyperloop

Hyperloop's not dead.

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists found that black holes give off a complex series of "chirps" in the form of gravitational waves after they merge.
Science & Energy

"We discovered that these signals are far more rich and complex than commonly thought…"

By Dan Robitzski

Sir Roger Penrose, who just won a Nobel Prize for discovering black holes, says that our universe was neither the first to exist, nor will it be the last.
Science & Energy

A Stephen Hawking collaborator who just won a Nobel Prize says that the "Big Bang was not the beginning."

By Dan Robitzski

American astronomer Andrea Ghez just won this year's Nobel prize in physics for her groundbreaking work on black holes, only the fourth woman to do so.
Science & Energy

I mean, same.

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers suggest checking the surface of the Moon for ancient rocks that could have been blasted away from Venus during asteroid strikes.
Science & Energy

"The Moon offers safe keeping for these ancient rocks."

By Dan Robitzski

Russia says it successfully tested its Zircon, a hypersonic nuclear missile that can travel nine times the speed of sound, on Tuesday.
Military

Get ready for nuclear missiles that fly too quickly to block.

By Dan Robitzski

A team of engineers at the University of California San Diego have built a squid robot that can propel itself through water just like the real thing.
Robotics

"Essentially, we recreated all the key features that squids use for high-speed swimming."

By Victor Tangermann

In an email, a Tesla executive warned workers that an anonymous employee "maliciously sabotaged" part of a factory last month.
Tesla

The employee was fired on the spot.

By Victor Tangermann

A team of MIT scientists working on a universal flu vaccine, or a single inoculation that blocks all flu viruses, modeled a successful vaccination method.
RX and Medicine

One shot would protect you against every strain of the flu.

By Dan Robitzski

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the country will power all homes with wind energy by 2030, but it might cost more than he's allocating.
Wind

The goal is to power every home with wind by 2030.

By Dan Robitzski

Russia's space corporation just unveiled plans for its "Amur rocket" — a design that has some striking similarities with SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket
Off-World

To be fair, it does look like a bit of a ripoff.

By Victor Tangermann