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Your smartphone is able to tell if you've had one too many drinks according to a new study published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.
Prosthetics and Devices

Oh Great, Now Your Smartphone Can Tell If You’re Drunk

Notifications could remind people they're too impaired to drive.

By Victor Tangermann

An army of 100,000 volunteers have identifed almost 100 of a new class of frigid brown dwarf floating near our solar system.
Science & Energy

An Army of Citizen Scientists Found Nearly 100 Nearby Brown Dwarfs

100,000 volunteers, 100 new celestial bodies.

By Dan Robitzski

Multiple federal law enforcement agencies are buying people's cell phone location data, circumventing the need to obtain a warrant.
Science & Energy

Cops Are Buying Your Social Media Location Data Without a Warrant

The Secret Service, the IRS, and ICE are paying for your location data.

By Dan Robitzski

A team of Harvard astronomers have a wild new theory: the Sun used to have a star companion while the solar system was being formed.
Science & Energy

Harvard Astronomers Propose That Our Star System Used to Be Binary

"The Sun's long-lost companion could now be anywhere in the Milky Way."

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX just beat its own record by reusing a single Falcon first stage called B1049.6 for the sixth time after launching from Cape Canaveral this morning.
SpaceX

SpaceX Just Reused a Single Booster for the 6th Time

SpaceX is making it look easy.

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced on Twitter that his space company's Raptor engine just aced an important pressure test "without exploding."
SpaceX

SpaceX Tests Highest Pressure Rocket Engine In History

Yet another milestone for Starship.

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists thinks it's cracked the code for developing electronics that can be embedded in someone's body without causing scarring along the way.
Prosthetics and Devices

Doctors Want to Put Chips In Your Body to Monitor Tumors

They're trying to make them less harmful to the body.

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists Observe “Time Crystals” Interacting With Each Other
Quantum Physics

Scientists Observe “Time Crystals” Interacting With Each Other

"Controlling the interaction of two time crystals is a major achievement."

By Victor Tangermann

Northrop Grumman's MEV-2 spacecraft will attempt to dock to an actively functioning satellite called Intelsat 10-02 while in geosynchronous orbit.
Robots and Machines

Northrop Grumman Launches Second Satellite Rescue Mission

These orbital robots are designed to give ancient satellites a new lease on life.

By Victor Tangermann

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

A Low-Cost, Experimental Coronavirus Treatment Uses Horse Antibodies

A clinical trial on human patients will begin this month.

By Dan Robitzski

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 CityMD Lets You Set Your “Owner” As Your Emergency Contact

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

By Dan Robitzski

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

Scientists Warn That Pets Might Infect People With COVID-19

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

By Dan Robitzski

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

Man Builds Gun That Shoots Masks Onto People’s Faces

"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."

By Jon Christian

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

Scientists Are Worried About Solar Storms Frying all our Electronics

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

By Dan Robitzski

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

Scientists Find Microplastics Inside Human Organs

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

By Victor Tangermann

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

NASA Just Powered Up Its Mars Helicopter

"This was a big milestone."

By Victor Tangermann

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

COVID-19 Survivors Seem to Have Really Solid Immunity, Researchers Say

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

By Dan Robitzski

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

Scientists: Probe Center of Uranus, You’ll Hit Some Weird Water

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

By Victor Tangermann

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

ICE Signs Contract With Controversial Facial Recognition Company

It's a privacy nightmare in the making.

By Victor Tangermann

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

Serenity Not Now: Meditation and Mindfulness Can Make Depression Worse

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

By Dan Robitzski