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During a press conference, cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin told reporters that the leak on board the space station was a "scratch" about two to three cm long.
NASA

NASA Offers $400 Million for Companies to Build New Space Stations

“The ISS is an amazing system but, unfortunately, it won’t last forever.”

According to a new report, the COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by Pfizer and BioNTech is 93 percent effective after just one out of two doses.
Developments

White House Considering Temporary Lift On COVID Vaccine IP Protections

The move would help poorer nations replicate and distribute more vaccines.

Elon Musk took some time on Friday evening to tweet out an image of a Transformers robot with an erection for... reasons.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Tweets Image of Robot With Genitals

It’s more than meats the eye.

YouTube says that there is a "disturbing trend" of staged animal rescue videos. Now, they're putting policy in place to identify and ban the videos.
Future Society

YouTube Banning Staged Animal Rescue Videos

The videos include puppies and rabbits being constricted by snakes.

Researchers have discovered a distant space object that is emitting ultra-low radio frequencies in the shape of a jellyfish.
Science & Energy

Strange, Distant Space Object Is Sending Out Ultra-Low Frequency Radio Signals

Researchers say the object looks like a cosmic jellyfish.

5 Ways Elon Musk Can Help the Ship Trapped in the Suez Canal
Elon Musk

5 Ways Elon Musk Can Help the Ship Trapped in the Suez Canal

Rockets are involved.

Some government agencies are standing in the way of efforts to catalog reports of "unidentified aerial phenomenon," Politico reports.
Off-World

Government Sources Say Military Is Holding Back Evidence of UFOs

What's the Pentagon hiding?

In 2018, Elon Musk implied that Tesla employees would lose their stock options if they unionized. Now, the federal government decided that he broke the law.
Elon Musk

Government Orders Elon Musk to Delete Anti-Union Tweet

The National Labor Relations Board decided a 2018 tweet violated the law.

A mysterious disease outbreak in Sokoto, Nigeria killed one student and infected 30 others. The government still doesn't know what it was.
Developments

Mystery Disease Outbreak Kills Girl in Nigeria, Sickens Dozens More

The Ministry of Health is still investigating.

German scientists have tested a special vaccine targeted at helping the body fight brain cancers for the first time in humans.
Cancer

Scientists Complete First Human Test of Vaccine Against Brain Cancer

"We were also able to demonstrate that the activated mutation-specific immune cells had invaded the brain tumor tissue."

Here's what people want to do with their time as soon as they're fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and can partially reenter society.
Developments

After Their Second Vaccine Kicks In, This Is How People Are Reentering Society

Abandoned rituals, long overdue reunions, and smooching all made the list.

Mathematician and astronomer Claudio Maccone published more research on how to defend Earth from asteroids with orbital missiles.
Off-World

Scientist: If Asteroids Threaten Earth, We Should Blow Them Up With Missiles

Claudio Maccone's grand plan is to station defensive missile silos in orbit.

In a now-deleted tweet, Tesla CEO Elon Musk claimed Tesla could become the "biggest company" and "probably within a few months."
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Deletes Tweet Claiming Tesla Could Become World’s Biggest Company in “Months”

Tesla has a long way to go.

A pair of underage teens in Daytona Beach, Florida, got caught driving a Tesla Model Y on the wrong side of the road. Their excuse: it was driving itself.
Tesla

Underage Teens Caught Joyriding Tesla, Claim It Was Driving Itself

They claim they were just along for the ride.

UK credit broker Money.co.uk outlined how much it would cost to get a mortgage for a house on the Moon. Their numbers are way off.
Moon

Ridiculous Analysis Claims You Could Build a House on the Moon for $60 Million

What a steal.

A SpaceX Falcon 9's second stage lit up the skies like a spectacular fireworks display around 4am local time over the Seattle area during reentry.
SpaceX

Watch a SpaceX Rocket Stage Burn Up Spectacularly in the Earth’s Atmosphere

The videos are incredible.

In a new report, the US National Academies of Sciences is recommending to study the feasibility of dimming the Sun, thereby fighting climate change.
Climate Change

Top US Scientists Propose Research Into Blocking Sun to Fight Climate Change

Is this really our answer to climate change?

Max Hodak, Neuralink co-founder, has an idea for an entirely new religion — and it involves tripping on natural substances to feel the grace of God.
Future Society

Neuralink Co-Founder Has an Idea for a New Religion

It might already exist.

The SpaceX Crew Dragon dubbed Resilience currently docked on orbit to the International Space Station "annunciated false emergency messages" yesterday.
SpaceX

Emergency Alarm Reportedly Goes Off on SpaceX Dragon Capsule Docked to Space Station

"Dragon Resilience keeping the ISS crew on their toes."

Celebrity humanoid robot Sophia just sold a digital artwork as a non-fungible token (NFT) for $688,888, as Reuters reports.
NFTs

Humanoid Robot Sophia Sells 12 Second Video NFT for Almost $700,000

What's next? Robots buying other robots' digital artwork?