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Living in “Third Person View” With VR and a Backpack-Mounted Camera
Virtual Reality

Living in “Third Person View” With VR and a Backpack-Mounted Camera

With a VR rig and a backpack-mounted camera, you can experience life from a third person view — like a video game character.

By Dan Robitzski

After spending more than a year studying Ryugu, an asteroid some 180 million miles away, Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft has returned to drop off some samples.
Off-World

Japanese Spacecraft Returns Asteroid Samples to Earth

"We collected the treasure box. The capsule collection was perfectly done."

By Victor Tangermann

Thanks to an array of electrodes implanted in their brains, two monkeys were able to "see" and recognize individual shapes — without using their eyes.
Prosthetics and Devices

New Device Sends Images Directly Into Monkeys’ Brains

Monkey see, monkey do.

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is paying startups for any Moon dust they collect on missions scheduled for the next few years, but the payment is largely symbolic.
Moon

NASA Will Pay This Startup $1 to Collect Moon Dust. Wait, What?

Okay, that seems low.

By Dan Robitzski

The Inouye Solar Telescope, the largest solar observatory in the world, just released the first-ever image of a sunspot.
Science & Energy

The Sharpest-Ever Image of a Sunspot Looks Like a Portal to Hell

The Sun is a truly chaotic place.

By Victor Tangermann

China plans to expand its weather modification system to cover 5.5 million square miles. Neighboring India is worried it could become a weapon.
Environment

China Is Rolling Out an Enormous “Weather Modification” System

Experts say it could spur conflict with a neighboring country.

By Dan Robitzski

John Ratcliffe, the U.S. national intelligence cirector, wrote in an op-ed that China experimented on military members to try and create supersoldiers.
Genetics

US Official Claims China Is Testing Biologically Enhanced Supersoldiers

"U.S. intelligence shows that China has even conducted human testing on members of the People’s Liberation Army in hope of developing soldiers with biologically enhanced capabilities."

By Dan Robitzski

Alabama-based startup Aevum has unveiled a fully autonomous drone designed to release satellite-launching rockets in midair — and its an absolute monster.
Drones

This Is the World’s Biggest Drone

An absolute unit.

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new book, Chinese scientist He Jiankui had the support of several Communist Party officials while working on his gene-editing experiments.
Gene Editing

Communist Party Secretly Supported Chinese Gene-Edited Babies, According to New Book

The Chinese government later distanced itself from the controversial experiments.

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists working at the Arecibo Observatory, right until it collapsed earlier this month, are calling for the massive radio telescope to be rebuilt.
Science & Energy

Researchers Call For Rebuilding Collapsed SETI Observatory

"With the appropriate funding, we have a viable path towards reconstruction."

By Victor Tangermann

Former U.S. Presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama agreed to take the COVID-19 vaccine in public to bolster confidence that it's safe.
Viruses

Obama, Clinton, and Bush Say They’ll All Take COVID-19 Vaccine

And they'll do it on camera.

By Dan Robitzski

On Wednesday, Google fired a prominent AI ethicist at the company who had spoken out about diversity and censorship within the company.
Google

Google Ousts Top AI Ethicist

AI ethicist Timnit Gebru says Google censored her work.

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers from University of Science and Technology of China have just claimed quantum supremacy using a photon-based quantum computer.
Quantum Physics

China Claims Quantum Supremacy

Chinese researchers say they've blown Google's quantum system out of the water.

By Victor Tangermann

By reversing molecular changes that happen naturally with age, a team of scientists restored vision to blind mice that they made more genetically youthful.
Gene Editing

Harvard Scientists Claim to Reverse Mouse Aging at Cellular Level

In key ways, the mice started to appear younger.

By Dan Robitzski

Newly released footage, including several drone shots, shows the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico collapsing in on itself.
Science & Energy

Dramatic Drone Video Shows Collapse of Alien-Hunting Observatory

Ugh, that sound is horrifying.

By Victor Tangermann

The European Space Agency compiled the most detailed map of the Milky Way galaxy in history, plotting the location and course of nearly 2 billion stars.
Science & Energy

This Is the Most Detailed Map of the Milky Way in History

You can check it out right here.

By Dan Robitzski

China has confirmed that its Chang'e-5 lunar lander's ascent vehicle has taken off, bringing with it the first lunar samples since the 1970s.
Off-World

Breaking: Chinese Lander Takes Off From Lunar Surface

Well, that was fast.

By Victor Tangermann

China's lunar lander Chang'e-5 just beamed back color photos of the surface of the Moon — and they're a lot more beige than what you'd expect.
Moon

Chinese Lander Sends Back Color Pictures of the Moon

Wait, isn't the Moon supposed to be gray?

By Victor Tangermann

MIT Team “Accidentally” Invents Blackest Material in Existence
Science & Energy

MIT Team “Accidentally” Invents Blackest Material in Existence

Step aside, Vantablack.

By Kristin Houser

Astrophysics professor Ray Norris discusses how he and his colleagues spotted strange, unusually shaped objects in recent radio astronomical data.
Science & Energy

Astronomers Puzzled by “Ghostly” Unidentified Objects in Deep Space

"None of us had ever seen anything like it before, and we had no idea what it was."

By Victor Tangermann