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Scientists are developing a low-cost version of a coronavirus antiviral medication using antibodies grown in horses exposed to viral proteins.
Viruses

A clinical trial on human patients will begin this month.

At the clinic CityMD, the software allows you to set your "owner" as your emergency contact. We got to the bottom of what's going on.
Developments

Why did this NYC health clinic ask who my owner was? An investigation.

Doctors still aren't sure if pets can spread COVID-19 to their owners or vice versa, so they recommend assuming that they can in the meantime.
Developments

It's hard to verify, so experts recommend caution while they figure it all out.

Anti-maskers inspired YouTuber Allen Pan to create a whimsical gadget: a gun that fires masks directly onto its targets' faces.
Prosthetics and Devices

"This is a world of opinion and emotion. And if there's one thing that coronavirus protesters actually care about, it's the Second Amendment. Guns."

Scientists want to improve our ability to forecast weather in space due to concerns that a solar storm could wipe out our entire electronic infrastructure.
Solar Power

They want a space weather forecasting system so we can prepare.

A team from Arizona State University found nanoplastic particles in all 47 examined human lungs, liver, spleen, and kidney samples.
Developments

"In a few short decades, we've gone from seeing plastic as a wonderful benefit to considering it a threat."

NASA just powered up its Ingenuity Mars helicopter for the first time — not on the Martian surface, but in the middle of interplanetary space.
Mars

"This was a big milestone."

Five new studies all suggest that COVID-19 survivors could have a more robust resistance to future coronavirus infections than we thought.
Viruses

It's an encouraging sign after months of wondering whether antibodies actually helped.

By modeling the interior using simulations, an international team of scientists are having a closer look at the unusual watery cores of Uranus and Neptune.
Science & Energy

"In such exotic physical conditions, we cannot think of ice as we are used to."

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) signed a contract with the extremely controversial facial recognition tech company Clearview AI.
Future Society

It's a privacy nightmare in the making.

According to new research, mindfulness and meditation can make depression and anxiety worse in a small subset of people who try it.
Health & Medicine

"People have experienced anything from an increase in anxiety up to panic attacks."

A team of scientists have figured out a way to keep a quantum computer system "coherent," or operational, 10,000 times longer than before.
Quantum Physics

"The best part is, it's incredibly easy to do."

Trump's EPA just rolled back the last of the Obama-era carbon emission regulations that held oil companies responsible for methane leaks.
Climate Change

The removal of Obama-era emissions standards is now complete.

Jack Dorsey has a message for aspiring tech entrepreneurs: Elon Musk's approach and work ethic is some serious "bullshit."
Elon Musk

Dorsey says emulating Musk's endless work hours is a horrible idea.

Scientists refuse to stop using indecipherable, vague acronyms that could have multiple meanings, and it's a serious problem for accessibility.
Science & Energy

Shockingly, weird ones like "MAYONNAISE" and "ESPRESSO" aren't the real problems.

Despite SpaceX just having won a massive US Air Force launch contract, the company's CEO Elon Musk is pissed about ULA scoring 60 percent of the launches.
Elon Musk

"Nobody would suggest buying airplanes that only fly once and then crash into the ocean."

The star S62 whips around the Milky Way's central black hole at a dizzying eight percent of lightspeed. It's so fast scientists can see time slow down.
Science & Energy

At eight percent the speed of light, it's the fastest in our galaxy.

Scientists just blew the distance record for long-range quantum-encrypted messages after beaming one down from a satellite in orbit.
Quantum Physics

Quantum encryption goes extremely long-range.

You Can Now Waste $6,000 on an Elon Musk-Themed iPhone
Elon Musk

But, you know, you probably shouldn't.

Thanks to new, skintight sensors, AI may finally be able to learn what's going on with our hands when we make everyday gestures.
Artificial Intelligence

Apparently, the data that trained previous systems was no good.