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Authorities in Denmark have found that a mutation of the coronavirus has spread from minks to humans, and plan to kill all 17 million mink in the country.
Developments

Mutated Form of COVID Spreading Between Mink and Humans in Denmark

"The mutated virus in minks can have devastating consequences worldwide."

By Victor Tangermann

The Air Force opened a new research lab that it says will enable it to build new resilient, high-strain spacecraft and satellites.
Military

Air Force Opens New Lab for Spacecraft Materials

The $4 million Deployable Structures Laboratory opened last week.

By Dan Robitzski

An extremophile bacteria survived a year in space. Scientists uncovered how it pulled off the feat, suggesting microbes could travel among planets.
Science & Energy

New Research Shows How a Microbe Could Survive Journey Between Planets

"These investigations help us to understand the mechanisms and processes through which life can exist beyond Earth."

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have presented new evidence that a magnetar within the Milky Way was the source of a strange fast radio burst recorded in April.
Science & Energy

Astronomers Pinpoint Source of Mysterious Radio Burst Signal

It released an incredible amount of energy in just milliseconds — and we still don't know why.

By Victor Tangermann

The "Osampo Kanojo" is meant to recreate the look, feel, sound, and smell of talking a stroll while holding hands with your partner.
Robotics

Scientists in Japan Build Robot to Hold Hands With Lonely People

It even gets sweaty palms.

By Dan Robitzski

According to scientists, an additional planet located between Saturn and Uranus was yeeted out of the solar system when it was much younger.
Solar Power

New Evidence: There Was Another Planet in the Solar System That Escaped

Researchers say a third ice giant, between Uranus and Neptune, got flung out of our star system.

By Victor Tangermann

After a years-long waiting period, President Donald Trump's ill-advised decision to leave the Paris climate agreement took effect Tuesday.
Climate Change

US Formally Ditches Paris Climate Agreement

"Simply put the US should stay with the other 189 parties to the agreement, not go out alone."

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in the UK claim to have achieved first plasma on an upgraded, experimental fusion reactor.
Energy

Scientists Just Fired Up an Experimental Fusion Reactor

Fusion reactors are usually donut-shaped — but this time, they built it as a sphere.

By Victor Tangermann

Former NASA astronaut and US Navy veteran Mark Kelly, a Democrat, beat incumbent Martha McSally (R-AR) for a seat on the US senate.
Future Society

Veteran NASA Astronaut Elected to US Senate

Mark Kelly opposed NASA's return to the Moon, arguing that astronauts should go straight to Mars instead. Now he's in Congress.

By Victor Tangermann

K-pop girl band aespa has announced it's adding a new and completely virtual member to its ranks called "ae-KARINA."
Future Society

New K-Pop Band Will Include an Entirely CGI Singer

She's an entirely virtual, computer generated avatar — not a real singer like her fellow band members.

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers can't definitively rule out the chance that the "God of Chaos" asteroid Apophis crashes into Earth when it returns in 2068.
Science & Energy

There’s a Chance This Giant Asteroid Will Smash Earth in 2068

The probability is low, but the consequences would be catastrophic.

By Dan Robitzski

A team of engineers from the University of Bristol visited the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant last week to test out Spot, a four-legged robodog.
Boston Dynamics

Scientists Send Boston Dynamics Robodog Into Chernobyl

This is exactly what Spot was designed for.

By Victor Tangermann

According to screenshots of emails sent to CNBC, SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service will cost $99 per month.
SpaceX

SpaceX Starlink Satellite Internet Will Reportedly Cost $99 Per Month

It'll start to roll out in coming months, SpaceX says.

By Victor Tangermann

Senior employees at the security camera company Verkada used the company's own facial recognition to sexually harass their coworkers.
Future Society

Men at Facial Recognition Startup Used Its Own Tech to Sexually Harass Coworkers

They used the company's own tech to take photos of women and post sexually explicit comments about them.

By Dan Robitzski

MIT Algorithm Detects COVID-19 in the Sound of Your Cough
Developments

MIT Algorithm Detects COVID-19 in the Sound of Your Cough

"It's the same principle as feeding a machine a lot of X-rays so it learns to detect cancer."

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists at Facebook are investigating if they can use augmented reality to allow people with hearing loss to hear another person in loud environments.
Prosthetics and Devices

Facebook Wants to Give You Superhuman Hearing Using AR Glasses

Imagine tech that could let you isolate just one conversation in a crowded party.

By Victor Tangermann

A new Amazon patent describes how trolls and toxic gamers could be sequestered into their own matches full of other trolls.
Science & Energy

Amazon Patent Makes the Most Horrible Gamers Play With Each Other

Finally, some peace and quiet.

By Dan Robitzski

New NASA-led research calculated that on average, about one in two Sun-like stars in the Milky Way have exoplanets in their habitable zones.
Science & Energy

NASA: Half the Sun-like Stars in our Galaxy Have Potentially-Habitable Planets

"We're one step closer on the long road to finding out if we’re alone in the cosmos."

By Dan Robitzski

According to a recent tweet by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the company will be unveiling a Cybertruck design with minor improvements "maybe in a month or so."
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Promises Redesigned Cybertruck in a “Month or So”

Let's hope it still looks as brutal as the original design.

By Victor Tangermann

Failing to reach the Paris agreement's goals and heating Earth by two degrees Celsius could trigger the release of 230 billion tons of carbon from the soil.
Climate Change

Our Soil is Poised To Release Billions of Tons of Carbon

Well, this isn't good.

By Dan Robitzski