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The Pentagon is considering launching a network of satellites that would be able to identify and track any acts of aggression in outer space.
Space

Study: The US Needs To Build More Space Weapons

The rise of anti-satellite weapons means we need more defenses to guard against threats.

By Tony Ho Tran

Zoom, the increasingly-popular video conferencing program, has extremely flawed cybersecurity in place. Companies like SpaceX have already banned it.
Studies

Study: “Zoom Fatigue” Exists—and It Totally Sucks

Even more, there are ways to prevent it — or at least mitigate its damage.

By Tony Ho Tran

For the first time ever, researchers were able to catch space-time crystals on camera using a transmission X-ray microscope.
Science & Energy

A Breakthrough: Actual Video of a Time Crystal

Woah.

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured a stunning photo of Venus during its flyby en route to the Sun—but there's something in it that has scientists excited.
Off-World

This Photo of Venus Shocked Scientists. Here’s Why.

The photo is part of a surprising twist involving a probe's camera.

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA released a stunning high-resolution panorama of the Martian surface taken by Perseverance's Mastcam-Z camera. It spotted a strangely shaped rock.
Mars

NASA Scientists Spot Strangely Shaped Rock in Latest Mars Panorama

What is that thing?

By Victor Tangermann

A trio of robotics executives share how they try to prevent their products from being misused once a customer buys them for whatever purposes.
Robotics

Robotics Executives: Here’s How to Keep Our Creations in Line

Who's responsible for all the robots among us?

By Dan Robitzski

Instead of finding one big black hole at the center of a cluster of 250,000 stars, a pair of astronomers found evidence of a school of smaller black holes.
Science & Energy

Astronomers Find Five Dozen Baby Black Holes in Distant Psychotic Chaos Galaxy

That's not what they were expecting at all.

By Victor Tangermann

Engineers figured out how to make smart tattoos with built in lights that could become useful medical sensors — or at the very least look extremely cool
Science & Energy

New Smart Tattoos Have Built-In Lights

Signing up for some (temporary) glowing knuckle tats.

By Dan Robitzski

After an internal and public outcry over how it mishandled AI ethics, Google is trying to save face and restore trust in its work.
Google

Google Promised Staff They’ll Be Less Evil With AI

It's a weird promise to make after firing its AI ethicists.

By Dan Robitzski

A space colonization company called Orbital Assembly Corporation has some incredibly bold plans to turn science fiction into reality.
Space

Company Has Ambitious Plan to Build Private Space Station with Artificial Gravity

"This will be the next industrial revolution."

By Victor Tangermann

A team of Japanese scientists simulated 4,000 entirely new universes to try and understand what happened in the earliest moments of ours.
Science & Energy

Scientists Simulate Thousands of New Universes to Understand How Ours Began

"We are trying to do something like guessing a baby photo of our universe from the latest picture."

By Dan Robitzski

New studies show that people who already recovered from COVID-19 and have antibodies in their system get "robust" protection from a single Pfizer dose.
Viruses

Single Pfizer Dose “Robust” For Those Who Have Had COVID

This is actually great news, for a change.

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla CEO Elon Musk isn't afraid of the Securities and Exchange Commission coming after him for tweets about the cryptocurrency dogecoin.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Invites SEC Into Battle Over Dogecoin, Because ??!??!?!??!

"I hope they do! It would be awesome."

By Victor Tangermann

Russian engineers built a bizarre pilotless aircraft that flies by flapping its six wings like a gigantic, terrifying dragonfly.
Robots and Machines

Look At This Horrifying Aircraft That Flaps Its Wings Like a Dragonfly

The aircraft Serenity takes biological inspiration to new extremes.

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found ancient dust that they say is conclusive evidence an asteroid killed the dinosaurs tens of millions of years ago.
Science & Energy

Scientists Find Smoking Gun Evidence in Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Case

The cold case was reopened thanks to new evidence: asteroid dust inside the ancient impact crater.

By Dan Robitzski

Bill Gates wants everyday Bitcoin investors to remember that Elon Musk can afford to cut and run, but they likely cannot.
Elon Musk

Bill Gates: You Should Probably Not Follow Elon Musk ‘To The Moon’ On BTC

Repeat after me: Elon Musk is a mega-billionaire; we are not the same.

By Dan Robitzski

A compact electric vehicle that costs just $4,500 is vastly outselling Tesla's vehicles in China, the BBC reports.
Tesla

This $4,500 EV Is Now Outselling Tesla in China

Move aside, Tesla.

By Victor Tangermann

Moderna has announced it has created the first batch its new COVID-19 vaccine that protects people against a deadly new variant from South Africa.
Developments

Moderna Testing New Vaccine Designed to Protect Against Deadly Variant

Round two in the fight against the coronavirus has officially begun.

By Victor Tangermann

Philippines-based PDAX, Southeast Asia's largest crypto exchange, just accidentally sold bitcoin at an incredible 88 percent discount, for just $6,000.
Bitcoin

Whoops: Crypto Exchange Accidentally Sells Bitcoin at 88% Discount

They want their bitcoin back, please.

By Victor Tangermann

It turns out that the artificial intelligence algorithm GPT-3 is perfectly capable of writing college papers, as long as you don't mind a mediocre GPA.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Will Give Perfectly Accurate Half-Assed Effort In Writing Your Term Paper

And you don’t even have to pay it in weed and Adderall.

By Dan Robitzski