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Sister André, the world's second oldest person, fended off the coronavirus — and celebrated with champagne and a delicious feast.
Developments

World’s Second Oldest Person Survives COVID, Celebrates With Champagne

This nun has survived the Spanish Flu, two world wars — and now COVID-19.

By Tony Ho Tran

A NASA-sponsored report finds that the agency has fallen behind on its push to develop nuclear propulsion for spacecraft, threatening a 2039 Mars mission.
Mars

NASA Report Recommends “Aggressive” Funding for Nuclear-Powered Mars Mission

If they can pull it off, it could allow human exploration of the solar system.

By Dan Robitzski

A new neural net algorithm can listen to people's heartbeats with radio waves and guess how they're feeling 71 percent of the time.
Artificial Intelligence

New AI Detects Your Emotions by Scanning You With Radio Signals

Its creators say it's accurate 71 percent of the time.

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new study, the type 2 diabetes treatment drug called semaglutide could be an effective way to reduce weight in obese patients.
Health & Medicine

New Weight Loss Drug Hailed as “Game Changer”

Miracle drug or luxury treatment?

By Victor Tangermann

A team of Japanese scientists cultured stem cells into hair follicles that can naturally grow back lost hair after it falls out.
Treatments

These Lab-Grown Follicles Could Offer New Treatment for Baldness

This stem cell research could lead to a next-generation treatment for baldness.

By Dan Robitzski

After years of testing and development, NASA is ready to start assembling the spacecraft that will visit the metallic asteroid Psyche.
Science & Energy

NASA Ready to Start Building Its Asteroid-Bound Psyche Spacecraft

It'll explore what NASA believes is the exposed core of a planet that broke apart.

By Dan Robitzski

The next generation of Russia's Sotnik battle armor will reportedly be able to withstand a direct shot from a .50 caliber bullet.
Future Society

Russia Says New Combat Suit Will Survive .50 Caliber Bullets

It's also got built-in night vision, comms and more.

By Dan Robitzski

A U.S. Navy Admiral warns that nuclear war with Russia or China is a "very real possibility" and that the military needs to betterplan for the possibility.
Future Society

US Admiral: “Real Possibility” of Nuclear War With China, Russia

He says the US is closer to a major war than at any point since the height of the Cold War.

By Dan Robitzski

Claire "Grimes" Boucher said she'd be down to move to Mars "after age 50" — and even if it means "manual labor until death."
Mars

Grimes Says She’ll Move to Mars for “Manual Labor Until Death”

"I guess I’d like to upload my consciousness, and then when it’s technologically possible, have my consciousness live in some kind of humanoid vessel that can speak and move freely, and then that body can go to Mars and other planets with my mind inside it."

By Jon Christian

Neuralink co-founder Elon Musk says the brain-computer interface startup has implanted a monkey with a device that allows it to play games with its mind.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says Neuralink Has a Monkey Playing Video Games With Its Mind

"We have a monkey with a wireless implant in their skull with tiny wires who can play video games with his mind."

By Jon Christian

This brand new website pairs you "with a world-class barber" to "get your hair through these hard times" while quarantined.
Future Society

This Site Lets a Barber Tell You How to Cut Your Hair via Webcam

"You saved my life. My boyfriend looked hideous."

By Victor Tangermann

The space company and NASA contractor Nanoracks wants to build greenhouses in space to bolster food security in the face of climate change.
NASA

NASA Contractor Signs Deal to Build Greenhouses in Earth’s Orbit

"COVID and the climate change really opened our eyes to the fragility of food security in both the developing and the developed world."

By Dan Robitzski

In a chat with Derek Muller's popular YouTube channel Veritasium, Bill Gates said that the world is facing two big threats: climate change and bioterrorism.
Developments

Bill Gates Says the Next Horrible Virus Could Be Engineered by Terrorists

"Also related to pandemics is something people don't like to talk about much, which is bioterrorism."

By Victor Tangermann

Flat-earthers still somehow exist in 2021, so one guy wants to send one such conspiracy theorist to space to prove them wrong.
Off-World

There’s a Crowdfunding Campaign to Send a Flat-Earther to Space

"They call astronauts actors who are paid to lie and that boils my blood."

By Dan Robitzski

China's space agency has released amazing footage of its Tianwen-1 probe orbiting Mars. It shows an incredible amount of detail.
Mars

China Releases Breathtaking Video From Spacecraft Orbiting Mars

Watch the haunting new video of the Red Planet here.

By Victor Tangermann

In an interview with Joe Rogan, Tesla CEO Elon Musk renewed his promises that the upcoming Roadster could maybe hover "like a meter off the ground."
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says He Wants Future Tesla Roadster to Hover

"I want it to hover... without, you know, killing people."

By Victor Tangermann

NASA scientists say they can hunt for alien civilizations by looking for industrial pollutants like nitrogen dioxide in exoplanets' atmospheres.
Pollution

NASA Is Hunting Alien Civilizations by Looking for Their Pollution

NASA is actively searching exoplanets for signs of "industrialized civilization."

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new study by researchers from the University of Oxford, the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine can fight the South African variant.
Viruses

Study: One Particular Vaccine Protects Against Deadly New COVID Variants

This may affect which vaccine you'll want.

By Victor Tangermann

After a seven months of travel, NASA's Perseverance rover is set to land on Mars next week. The agency's InSight lander will be listening.
NASA

When NASA’s New Rover Lands, Its Other Lander Will Listen for the Impact

If a rover lands on Mars, and no one is around to hear it, does it still make a sound?

By Victor Tangermann

The Democratic Republic of Congo is now staring down its 12th Ebola outbreak just three months after the previous one ended.
Developments

After Second Death, Experts Fear New Ebola Outbreak

The WHO says Ebola is "endemic" in Congo.

By Dan Robitzski