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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.

By Jon Christian

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.

By Dan Robitzski

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.

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

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

"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

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

"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

FBI Reportedly Foils Russian Hack at Tesla Factory

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 Dumbass Comet Just Flew Directly Into the Sun

"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

Research: LSD Microdoses as Effective as Opioids at Treating Pain

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

Physicists: Wormholes Large Enough to Travel Through Are Possible

"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

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."

By Jon Christian

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."

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

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."

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

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

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

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."

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

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."

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

Scientists: Lab Mice Deserve Happier Lives

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 IRS Seized Millions in Terrorists’ Crypto. Congress Has Questions

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

Dr. Fauci Just Released a World Map of Ongoing Disease Outbreaks

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

US Army Scientist Brags That He’s Trying to Build the Bad Guy From “Terminator 2”

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

MIT Scientists Suggest Life Could Thrive in the Clouds of Venus

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

By Dan Robitzski