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SpaceX's sixth Starship prototype has "hopped" to 150 meters (492 feet) during a test at the company's test site in Texas, the second hop of its kind.
Starship

Breaking: SpaceX Hops Gigantic Starship Prototype to 150 Meters — Again

"Good paint can!"

By Victor Tangermann

There's a hole on the International Space Station, allowing air to leak out — and NASA is still having trouble tracking it down.
NASA

Weeks Later, NASA Still Can’t Find Hole in Space Station

"The leak rate is still stable and well below the design specifications for the station."

By Victor Tangermann

In an experiment, a team of scientists have created a levitating fluid that allows a tiny boat to float both on top of it — and below it.
Devices

Scientists Debut Hovering “Antigravity” Device

"People say it’s like the scene in 'Pirates of the Caribbean' when the boat floats upside down."

By Victor Tangermann

Doctors engineered a virus that can infect treatment-resistant tumors and make them more vulnerable to existing therapies.
Viruses

Doctors Fight Deadly Tumors Using Gene-Hacked Virus

Next, they're going to try it on human cancer patients.

By Dan Robitzski

Jim Woodward's MEGA drive, a theoretical spacecraft propulsion device, could allow us to travel to distant stars in the far future.
NASA

NASA-Funded Scientist Claims New Thruster Could Approach Light Speed

He says his "MEGA drive" could enable spaceflight to neighboring star systems — because, miraculously, it doesn't need any propellant.

By Victor Tangermann

Northrop Grumman just ignited a booster for NASA's long-awaited Space Launch System (SLS). The ensuing fireball was so huge, it lit a nearby hill on fire.
NASA

NASA Tests Rocket So Huge It Lights Entire Hillside on Fire

Northrop Grumman's SLS booster is an absolute beast.

By Victor Tangermann

The Breakthrough Listen Initiative is now listening for radio transmissions from 200 times more star systems it was before.
Science & Energy

SETI Team Increases Number of Stars That Might Host Life by 200x

They're now listening for radio signals from 288,315 star systems.

By Dan Robitzski

Russia has officially declassified footage from 1961 of the biggest ever nuclear blast of the RDS-220 hydrogen bomb, better known as Tsar Bomba.
Future Society

Russia Declassifies Video of World’s Biggest Nuclear Blast

Watch it here.

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have no idea what formed a series of bizarre ridges on the surface of Mars, and they're not confident in their guess.
Science & Energy

Scientists Still Baffled by Bizarre Martian Ridges

"Of course, this story is almost certainly incomplete if not totally wrong."

By Dan Robitzski

An engineer trained an artificial intelligence algorithm on the King James Bible and had it write bizarre doomsday scripture.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Trained on the Bible Spits Out Bleak Religious Prophecies

A quantum researcher cooked up an "AI Jesus."

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found a shark that had its teeth and skin almost completely eaten away by ocean acidification and chemical pollution.
Pollution

Pollution Dissolved This Shark’s Teeth and Skin, Researchers Say

But somehow, it still survived — by swallowing its prey whole.

By Dan Robitzski

An energy startup called NDB says it's making progress on a battery technology powered by small pieces of nuclear waste. Oh, and they say it's safe.
Nuclear Fusion

Researchers Test Battery Powered by Nuclear Waste

"So if you're talking about electric vehicles, our battery could run for around 90 years without the requirement of recharging."

By Jon Christian

A new report slammed SpaceX's plans to launch more than 30,000 Starlink low-Earth satellites, noting their "extreme" impact on scientific endeavors.
Future Society

Astronomers Slam SpaceX’s Growing Starlink Satellite Constellation

If SpaceX has its way, Starlink could have an "extreme" impact on science programs.

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk just compared his secretive brain-computer interface startup Neuralink to the dystopian science fiction show "Black Mirror."
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Compares Neuralink to “a ‘Black Mirror’ Episode”

"You could basically store your memories as a backup, and restore the memories, and ultimately you could potentially download them into a new body or a robot body."

By Jon Christian

New research suggests that GEODEs, or imitation black holes full of dark energy, could be driving the universe's ongoing expansion.
Science & Energy

Physicists: Fake Black Holes Could Be Pulling the Universe Apart

They'd look like black holes — but they're actually spinning blobs of dark energy that are remaking the cosmos.

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla competitor Lucid Motors claims to have beaten a Tesla Model S in a quarter mile race, covering the distance in a blistering 9.9 seconds.
Tesla

Lucid Motors Claims to Have Beaten Tesla Model S on Drag Strip

The competition is really starting to heat up.

By Victor Tangermann

A team of physicists speculate that a bizarre form of extraterrestrial life might be able to survive and rapidly evolve inside stars.
Space

Scientists Say Life Could Survive Inside Stars

Like genetic mutations, each generation would develop new traits, perhaps to the point of developing intelligence.

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers have spotted what they claim to be the most massive collision of two black holes ever, creating a black hole of about 150 solar masses.
Black Holes

Astronomers Claim to Have Spotted the Most Massive Black Hole Merger Ever

"Everything about this discovery is mindboggling."

By Victor Tangermann

According to Anthony Fauci, top infectious disease expert, there could be a safe way to start giving out a coronavirus vaccine earlier than expected.
Developments

Fauci: We Could Cut Trials Short and Give Out COVID Vaccine “Right Now”

"I'm not concerned about political pressure."

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists Invent Artificial Skin That Can Feel Pain
Robots and Machines

Scientists Invent Artificial Skin That Can Feel Pain

This goal is to improve on prosthetics — or even skin grafts that can actually feel.

By Victor Tangermann