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Thanks to powerful new lasers, scientists can now observe space debris orbiting the Earth during the daytime and better predict their paths.
Science & Energy

It's getting awfully crowded up there.

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has issued a mea culpa in the case of a drone photographer who was told to stop filming at the company's Giga Texas construction site.
Elon Musk

"I think our security was a little overzealous in this case."

By Jon Christian

The Japanese Company SkyDrive Inc just conducted a successful test of its eVTOL flying car vehicle with a human pilot on board.
Advanced Transport

"I hope many people will want to ride it and feel safe."

By Dan Robitzski

The FBI helped foil a plot by Russian hackers to target Tesla's Nevada Gigafactory with a massive insider ransomware hack.
Tesla

A hacker tried to take down Tesla from the inside — but the automaker had other ideas.

By Jon Christian

Scientists just watched as a doomed sungrazer comet hurtled directly toward the Sun, ultimately crumbling apart along the way.
Science & Energy

"This is not survivable for a little comet."

By Dan Robitzski

Tiny doses of the psychedelic drug LSD could be an effective painkiller — perhaps as powerful, scientists found, as conventional opioids like morphine.
RX and Medicine

In the future, could doctors prescribe LSD as a painkiller?

By Jon Christian

According to some bizarre theoretical physics, the human-traversable wormholes from science fiction should be possible to create.
Physics

"These wormholes are the ultimate roller coaster."

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers in Japan say bacteria could survive on the outside of a spacecraft for the entire duration of a trip to Mars.
Mars

"The results suggest that [bacteria] could survive during the travel from Earth to Mars and vice versa."

By Jon Christian

In order to protect the Moon from destructive lunar mining operations, one scientists suggests granting the Moon legal personhood.
Moon

"We should consider the Moon as an entity beyond the resources it might hold for humans to use."

By Dan Robitzski

WRAL reports that a Raleigh driver was watching a movie on his phone while his Tesla was on Autopilot slammed into two police cars.
Tesla

The Sheriff says that Autopilot is "not enhancing our safety, and in this situation, it could kill two law enforcement agents."

By Jon Christian

With fires causing dangerous levels of airborne particulates, Colorado officials are urging residents to set up "safe rooms" with air purification systems.
Pollution

The air is unbreathable — and officials are urging drastic action.

By Jon Christian

New research suggests that a woman is cured of HIV without taking any medications or getting a bone marrow transplant as other cured patients did.
RX and Medicine

"She could be added to the list of what I think is a cure, through a very different path."

By Dan Robitzski

This is bad: scientists say that a staggering 40 percent of coronavirus cases in Boston can be traced to a single biotech conference.
Gene Editing

"It’s a cautionary tale as we go forward and begin to open our communities, our workplaces and schools."

By Jon Christian

Research suggests scientists should pay greater attention to their lab mice's well-being. Not only for the mice's sake, but because it improves the science.
Biology

Happier mice means better science.

By Dan Robitzski

After federal law enforcement seized millions of dollars' worth of crypto from terrorist organizations, Congress is left with questions.
Bitcoin

The Department of Justice still hasn't briefed Congress on the bust.

By Dan Robitzski

Dr. Fauci just published research alongside a downright depressing map that shows all of the world's outbreaks of disease.
Developments

There's a whole lot of non-coronavirus disease spreading around the world.

By Dan Robitzski

Army engineer Frank Gardea is developing self-reconfiguring and self-repairing materials to make robots that he says are inspired by the Terminator.
Robots and Machines

Well, at least Skynet will be happy.

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have long suggested that microbes could theoretically live in the sulfurous clouds of Venus. An MIT team has more ideas on how that would work.
Biology

If they exist, these Venusian microbes would have an extremely brutal life cycle.

By Dan Robitzski

AI-Generated Sound Effects Are Now Fooling Human Ears
Artificial Intelligence

A small study found people were tricked by sophisticated audio AI.

By Dan Robitzski

Watching a short video explaining how the questions on an IQ test work can boost one's score by 18 points, calling the test's validity into question.
Science & Energy

A new study shows how easy it is to manipulate IQ test results — calling the entire concept into question.

By Dan Robitzski