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Amazon Prime Air, the retail giant's drone delivery company, was designated an "air carrier" by the Federal Aviation Administration today.
Drones

Amazon Gets Permission to Start Making Drone Deliveries

Ready for takeoff.

On Friday, Elon Musk held a prototype product demo for Neuralink. But experts in the crowd remain unimpressed by his bold, unsubstantiated claims
Neuroscience and Brain

Neuralink’s Demo Didn’t Impress Experts

The Neuralink demonstration was all flash with no substance, they say.

Veterans are spending several thousand dollars to go on special ayahuasca retreats in central America to treat a variety of mental disorders.
Health & Medicine

Veterans Are Taking a Psychedelic Plant to Fight PTSD

"It seemed to almost rewire my brain."

On Friday evening, SpaceX and Tesla CEO used a live event to release a number of rare updates about his secretive other startup, Neuralink.
Prosthetics and Devices

Elon Musk: We’ve Already Implanted Neuralink in Live Pigs

"In a lot of ways, it’s kind of like a Fitbit in your skull, with tiny wires."

In order to learn how cells can navigate large distances within our bodies, scientists plopped them into increasingly-complex mazes.
Biology

Researchers Forced Living Cells to Navigate Tiny Mazes

The tiny puzzles revealed how cells navigate our bodies.

After its first successful flight test of a Starship prototype earlier this month, SpaceX is planning to try again on Sunday.
Starship

SpaceX Is Planning to Fly Its Starship Prototype This Weekend

If you missed the last one, here's your chance.

A NASA satellite from 1964 is going to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere for an extremely fiery retirement at some point this weekend.
Science & Energy

A NASA Satellite From the 1960s Is About to Die

You had a good run, OGO-1.

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

Scientists Saw Space Debris During the Day for the First Time

It's getting awfully crowded up there.

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

Elon Musk: Tesla Security Was “Overzealous” In Kicking Out Drone Photographer

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

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

Japanese Company Tests a Flying Car — With a Human On Board

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

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

FBI Reportedly Foils Russian Hack at Tesla Factory

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

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

This Dumbass Comet Just Flew Directly Into the Sun

"This is not survivable for a little comet."

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

Research: LSD Microdoses as Effective as Opioids at Treating Pain

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

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

Physicists: Wormholes Large Enough to Travel Through Are Possible

"These wormholes are the ultimate roller coaster."

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

Scientists: Bacteria Could Survive Trip to Mars on Outside of Spacecraft

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

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

Scientist: We Should Grant the Moon Legal Personhood

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

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

Tesla Driver, Watching Movie on Autopilot, Slams Into Police Cars

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

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

Colorado Urges Residents to Hide Inside Air Filtrated “Safe Rooms”

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

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

Doctors Think They Cured a Woman’s HIV by Doing Nothing

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

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

Scientists: A Single Event Caused 40% of COVID Cases in Boston

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