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While millions of people are offering up their arm to get a shot of a COVID-19 vaccine, labs around the world are already working on the next generation.
Viruses

The Next COVID Vaccine Could Come in Pill Form

A COVID-19 vaccine nasal spray could be a real game changer.

Scientists found a cluster of stars trailing behind our galaxy that they think could be trapped in a blob of dark matter.
Physics

A Blob of Dark Matter Appears to Be Floating Outside Our Galaxy

Stars trailing through intergalactic space are likely stuck in a blob of dark matter.

As the pandemic begins its 15th official year, doctors are seeing severe cancer cases that went ignored for too long for one reason or another.
Cancer

Severe Cancer Is on the Rise

Doctors say some cases are worse than they've seen in years.

A team of astronomers are trying to figure out what's behind the largest source of matter and energy in the universe: dark energy.
Science & Energy

Scientists Say New Experiment Will Determine “Fate of the Universe”

Creating a gigantic 3D map of the universe is no easy task.

An antimasker attacked two Asian women in New York City on Sunday, hitting one in the head with a hammer for refusing to remove her mask.
Developments

Woman Brutally Attacked With Hammer for Wearing Mask

This is where anti-mask discourse was always headed.

In a recent opinion piece for NBC News, MIT graduate and entrepreneur Rizwan Virk argues studying UFOs could potentially redefine "all of science."
Physics

MIT Researcher Says UFO Research Could Lead to New Laws of Physics

The study of UFOs could potentially redefine "all of science."

The Parker Solar Probe broke two of its own records, for being fastest human-made object and taking the closest apporach to the Sun.
Science & Energy

A NASA Spacecraft Just “Touched” the Outer Layer of the Sun

The Parker Solar Probe is now the fastest human-made object in existence.

A  Las Vegas-based company has put up a RV add-on called CyberLandr for the Cybertruck, cashing in on more than $50 million in future revenue.
Advanced Transport

Cybertruck RV Attachment Sells $50 Million in Preorders

This RV add-on is sick.

NASA's Parker Solar probe made it inside of the far reaches of the Venusian upper atmosphere, picking up natural radio signals.
Off-World

Scientists Detect Radio Signal Coming From Venus

The signals are oddly familiar.

Carnegie Mellon University researcher Simon DeDeo warns of "nightmare" bots that use AI and image synthesis to "drive vulnerable people (literally) crazy.”
Artificial Intelligence

Professor Warns of “Nightmare” Bots That Prey on Vulnerable People

“My current nightmare application is blending GPT-3, facial GANs, and voice synthesis to make synthetic ELIZAs that drive vulnerable people (literally) crazy.”

When SpaceX's crews pulled the Crew Dragon capsule out of the water on Sunday, NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins did a little dance.
SpaceX

Watch Astronaut Do a Victory Dance After Climbing Out of Charred SpaceX Capsule

We'd be dancing, too.

As glaciers melt, drastic river piracy — or the rivers that rely on glaciers diverting off course — will likely continue to follow.
Climate Change

Rivers Around the World Are Disappearing

"River piracy" is robbing communities of their water sources.

Avi Loeb says stars ejected by supermassive black holes travel so fast they essentially time travel, and they may make for great alien tourist destinations.
Science & Energy

Specific Stars Are Effectively Time Traveling

Stars ejected by black hole mergers travel so fast that time starts to break down.

The 2021 Planetary Defense Conference Hypothetical Asteroid Impact Tabletop Exercise concluded that we don't have the tech to stop an asteroid impact.
NASA

Giant Asteroid Hits Europe After NASA Fails to Stop It, In a Simulation

It's a good thing it wasn't real.

Former Senator Harry Reid says that he was led to believe Lockheed Martin had stockpiled pieces of a crashed UFO, but he never got to see it for himself.
Military

Former Senator Says Military Wouldn’t Let Him See UFO Wreckage

"I was told for decades that Lockheed had some of these retrieved materials."

Chinese law enforcement likened the burn off from its recently launched space station module to the mass cremations taking place in India on social media.
Future Society

China Deletes Post Mocking COVID Death Toll

"It's a complete disrespect of human life."

A mysterious biotech startup with George Church on its board says it dodged regulatory oversight to give dementia patients an anti-aging gene therapy.
Developments

Mysterious Biotech Startup Gave Anti-Aging Gene Therapy to Dementia Patients

"Everything I'm seeing indicates the involved parties are not conducting a credible clinical trial with appropriate safeguards."

A new video uploaded by jetpack maker Gravity Industries shows a Royal Marine using a jet-powered suit to land on a nearby ship.
Advanced Transport

Watch a UK Marine Jetpack onto Speeding Ship, Pull Out Gun

They make it look so easy.

It may sound like an egregious flaunting of COVID-19 rules — but this massive in Liverpool, England, was in fact government sanctioned.
Developments

Scientists Hold Mask-Less Rave to Test Whether It’ll Spread COVID

"You can feel it, like big energy."

Scientists suspect that gas giant planets are capturing dark matter particles, and they have an idea for how to look for them.
Physics

Dark Matter May Be Hiding Inside Planets, Scientists Say

Gas giants might trap dark matter particles like balls of quicksand.