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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

Engineers Create Plasma-Powered Lightsaber That Can Cut Metal

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

Scientists Finally Built a Room-Temperature Superconductor

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

Physicists Just Stored and Transported Light Itself

"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

Elon Musk Slashes Tesla Model S Price to $69,420

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 Building a Military Rocket to Ship Weapons Anywhere in the World

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

For the First Time In Its History, NASA Successfully Collects Sample From Asteroid

"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

The Space Station’s Toilet, Oven, and Air Supply All Broke Last Night

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

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX's latest Starship prototype called SN8 completed a "static fire" test of its three Raptor engines early this morning.
Starship

SpaceX Starship Prototype Fires Up Its 3 Engines Ahead of Flight to 12 Miles

Elon Musk's Starship is finally taking shape.

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists are certain that the U.S. COVID-19 death toll is well over 200,000 lives. Conspiracy theories attempting to minimize deaths are easily debunked.
Developments

Scientists: Yes, the COVID-19 Death Toll Is Really That High

The attempts to minimize the pandemic's impact don't hold water at all.

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is about to send its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft down to the surface of Bennu, a small near-Earth asteroid about 500 meters across, to scoop up a sample.
Science & Energy

Here’s How to Watch as NASA Attempts to Grab a Sample From an Asteroid

The wait is finally over.

By Victor Tangermann

Call center contractors for Amazon's Ring say they're forced to work in an unsanitary office where dozens have gotten sick.
Future Society

Amazon Contractors Forced to Work in Office With Sick Coworkers

They say things are getting worse.

By Dan Robitzski

The China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation just laid our its five year plan to commercialize space, including plans for a spaceplane.
Off-World

China Says It’ll Fly Astronauts to Orbit in New Spaceplane

The plane will reportedly be capable of horizontal takeoff and landing.

By Victor Tangermann

The Justice Department just filed an antitrust case against Google that's the largest the company has had to face so far.
Future Society

Justice Department Nails Google with Massive Antitrust Case

Get ready for a huge legal battle.

By Dan Robitzski

UK researchers are preparing for a controversial experiment involving injecting healthy human test subjects with the coronavirus.
Viruses

Researchers Are Starting to Infect People With COVID on Purpose

"Deliberately infecting volunteers with a known human pathogen is never undertaken lightly."

By Victor Tangermann

In what sounds like a strange act of divination, the current crew of the International Space Station just used tea leaves to identity the station's leak.
Off-World

They Found the Space Station Leak… Using Tea Leaves

That's one way to do it.

By Victor Tangermann

Alarming research reveals that each time the Arctic permafrost thawed in the past, it released unimaginable amounts of carbon into the atmosphere.
Climate Change

This Is the Devastating Potential of the Arctic Permafrost Melting

Ancient thawings released incredible amounts of carbon into the atmosphere.

By Dan Robitzski

In an unusual case report, a high dose of Ambien temporarily restored the ability to speak and walk to a man who'd spent eight years in a coma-like state.
Neuroscience and Brain

Ambien Temporarily Restored a Man’s Ability to Walk, Speak

But it only works every few weeks.

By Dan Robitzski

US prosecutors have charged six Russian intelligence officers for being involved in several major cyberattacks, including disrupting the 2018 Olympic Games.
Future Society

US Indicts Russia for Some of the Biggest Cyberattacks in Recent History

It's the first time criminal charges have been made.

By Victor Tangermann

Dr. Fauci warns that as we hit the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, there's no end in sight. Trump is taking it out on Fauci instead of helping.
Developments

Trump: Fauci’s a ‘Disaster.’ Fauci: Pandemic’s Not Over.

"…You cannot say that we're on the road to essentially getting out of this."

By Dan Robitzski

The Hubble Space Telescope just captured a spectacular new image of two galaxies starting to be pulled towards the center of another.
Science & Energy

Hubble Telescope Sees a Cosmic “Waterspout” in This Dazzling New Image

One galaxy is dripping individual stars like drops of water into the center of the other.

By Victor Tangermann