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At "COVID parties," college students in Alabama are reportedly trying to catch the deadly coronavirus — and win a cash prize for doing so.
Developments

What happened to good old fashioned beer pong?

By Jon Christian

New research suggests that climate change could kill off 60 percent of all fish species this century. It's a sharp increase over past estimates.
Climate Change

"Fish are so important for human nutrition, so this study makes a strong case for protecting our ecosystems and natural environments."

By Dan Robitzski

A new medical robot built by Korean engineers automates the process of jabbing patients' noses with a swab to test for COVID-19.
Medical

Would you let this horrifying apparatus jam a swab up your nose?

By Dan Robitzski

A federal appeals court just ruled that the Facebook's practice of collecting data through its "like" widgets could be considered wiretapping.
Future Society

Facebook is wiretapping internet users, according to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

By Dan Robitzski

Boeing staff in Mississippi just powered up the core stage of the super-heavy-duty Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that it's building for NASA.
Boeing

"This is a first-of-its-kind type of rocket, the world's largest, most powerful rocket ever built."

By Jon Christian

Research suggests that fans of horror movies and those with a natural morbid curiosity may have been better psychologically prepared for the pandemic.
Health & Medicine

"Maybe with horror it’s about emotion regulation."

By Dan Robitzski

The market valuation of electric automaker Tesla now exceeds that of ExxonMobil, one of the planet's largest fossil fuel megacorporations.
Tesla

Congrats, Elon.

By Jon Christian

Chondrules, mysterious spherical bubbles found in meteorites, could have an incredibly-hellish origin story from the beginning of the solar system.
Science & Energy

It breathes life into the 19th-century theory that meteorites are "droplets of fiery rain."

By Dan Robitzski

The in-development science-fiction movie "b" will be the first feature-length ilm to feature a robot as the lead performer.
Robotics

"Erica" will be the first robot lead actress.

By Dan Robitzski

A new simulation shows what a Tesla Roadster accelerating from 0 to 60 mph in 1.1 seconds could look like — thanks to the addition of SpaceX thrusters.
Tesla

Elon Musk has teased the possibility of adding SpaceX thrusters to Tesla cars before. Now you can watch what it would be like.

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX Crew Dragon's solar arrays that provide power to the spacecraft are "degrading a little bit better than predicted."
Crew Dragon

"The vehicle's doing extremely well as we put it through its paces."

By Victor Tangermann

An Arizona forest fire has grown so large that satellites can easily see it from space, according to a new post by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
NASA

This image, taken from space, puts the blaze into perspective.

By Jon Christian

Yamato, a cty in Japan, just passed a law that requires pedestrians to put their phones away until they stop walking in order to prevent accidents.
Future Society

This suburb of Tokyo wants you to walk now, tweet later.

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists at LIGO noticed that minuscule quantum fluctuations actually knocked a large mirror in the observatory out of alignment.
Physics

The effect is tiny, but it's a shockingly tangible impact.

By Dan Robitzski

The team at Firefly Aerospace used one of its rocket engines to try to light all those pesky candles on a birthday cake for its co-founder Max Polakov.
Off-World

That's one way to do it!

By Jon Christian

Elon Musk is once again posting misleading claims about the coronavirus pandemic in an attempt to downplay the danger it poses.
Elon Musk

Tesla's CEO continues to downplay the COVID-19 pandemic.

By Dan Robitzski

A team of engineers is trying to build sustainable energy in developing communities with a new battery pack rental program.
Energy

The program essentially creates clean energy grids on the go.

By Dan Robitzski

A programmer named Aldo Cortesi created an algorithm that draws nonexistent animals, some of which look plausible and others which look like bizarre.
Artificial Intelligence

"Straying even further into the unknown, the model produced weird abstract patterns and unidentifiable entities, all with a vaguely biological, 'life-ish' feel to them."

By Jon Christian

Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider just discovered a new type of subatomic particle that's made entirely of charm quarks.
Physics

The bizarre new particle is all charm. Get it?

By Dan Robitzski

NASA astronauts Chris Cassidy and Bob Behnken got a tremendous view during their spacewalk on Monday. "Not bad for a view while working."
Crew Dragon

"It was just awesome to be able to look back and snap a picture."

By Victor Tangermann