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According to digital forensics expert Hany Farid, the pandemic and BLM movement are even higher priorities for disinformation campaigns than the election.
Future Society

"There are people who believe that you can kill the virus by blowing a hairdryer down your throat, by drinking silver, by drinking bleach."

By Dan Robitzski

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope just caught the "bat shadow" of a newborn star moving, as if it was a pair of flapping bat wings.
Science & Energy

"The shadow moves. It’s flapping like the wings of a bird!"

By Victor Tangermann

Medical dean Dr. Peter Hotez warns that states like Florida, California, and Texas, are facing a looming "apocalyptic" wave of COVID-19.
Developments

This is dark.

By Dan Robitzski

A new image uploaded by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk shows two Starship prototype tanks being assembled "in the midbay." And they're absolutely gigantic.
Starship

Tiny engineers for scale.

By Victor Tangermann

Composer Brian Eno took recordings of the acoustic waves given off by stars and sped them up into a haunting new arrangement.
Science & Energy

Stars constantly give off infrasound waves. Now artists sped them up so we can listen.

By Dan Robitzski

According to a damning investigation, Tesla, knowingly sold Model S cars with batteries that could spontaneously combust.
Tesla

A shocking investigation claims that Tesla cut corners — and ignored warnings.

By Dan Robitzski

NASA announced today that it's renaming its Washington, DC headquarters after Mary W. Jackson, the first Black engineer in the space program.
NASA

"She was a scientist, humanitarian, wife, mother, and trailblazer who paved the way for thousands of others to succeed, not only at NASA, but throughout this nation."

By Jon Christian

A new report by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees finally identified climate change as a reason refugees are forced out of their homes.
Climate Change

"The impacts of climate change are unevenly weighted against the world's most vulnerable people."

By Dan Robitzski

The US Senate Intelligence Committee wants US intelligence agencies and the Pentagon to release all data relating to "unidentified aerial phenomenon."
Military

The Senate Intelligence Committee says UFOs are a "potential threat" — and it wants the government to spill the beans already.

By Victor Tangermann

The first documented case of police facial recognition AI making its first wrongful arrest happened when a man was wrongfully identified as a shoplifter.
Facial recognition

"This is just the first time we know about it."

By Dan Robitzski

With so few new COVID-19 cases in China, vaccine research in the country — like an upcoming phase three experiment — needs to be conducted overseas.
Viruses

Chinese researchers are holding a phase three clinical trial in the UAE instead.

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX just put a tank serving as its seventh Starship prototype called SN7 through its spaces at its testing site in Boca Chica, Texas.
Starship

"Leak before burst is highly desirable."

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists assume the first life on Earth used RNA and that DNA developed later. But an experiment suggests both genetic molecules formed at the same time.
Biology

According to mind-bending new research, DNA may have been floating around long before it assembled into living organisms.

By Dan Robitzski

This is What Sunsets on Other Planets Would Look Like
Off-World

Stunning.

By Victor Tangermann

The European Union may not reopen its borders to the United States due to the largely uncontrolled spread of the coronavirus in the country.
Viruses

This is pretty embarrassing for the United States.

By Victor Tangermann

A team of Harvard astronomers are collaborating on a new project to scan the skies for signs of technological signatures from alien civilizations. 
Science & Energy

"The fundamental question we are trying to address is: are we alone?"

By Victor Tangermann

A team of experts discovered an unusual celestial object that's 2.6 solar masses, too big to be a neutron star, too small to be a black hole.
Science & Energy

The discovery could change the way we understand the evolution of stars.

By Victor Tangermann

Anthony Fauci, the United States' top infectious disease specialist, warned today of a "disturbing surge" in new coronavirus infections.
Viruses

Some states are beating the coronavirus. Others are seeing more infections than ever.

By Jon Christian

Physicists recently tested and validated the 50-year-old theory that dangling objects into a black hole then releasing them would generate power.
Physics

A 50-year-old theory was finally validated in an experiment.

By Dan Robitzski

The Segway — from those annoying city tours — is finally ending production after being announced in the year 2001, Fast Company reports.
Advanced Transport

RIP: An obituary for the Segway (2001-2020).

By Victor Tangermann