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Venture capitalist Peter Thiel suggested during a virtual seminar that China may use its centralized digital currency as a weapon against the US dollar.
Bitcoin

China Could Use Bitcoin as a Weapon Against the US, Billionaire Warns

According to this investor, China wants to weaken the US dollar with its digital currency.

By Victor Tangermann

A man from Missouri was just sentenced to 12 years in prison after he repeatedly tried to buy chemical weapons with Bitcoin.
Science & Energy

Man Sentenced for Buying Chemical Weapons With Bitcoin

He repeatedly tried to buy chemical weapons over the dark web.

By Dan Robitzski

In a reversal, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has decided that vaccines are a good thing after all. Better late than never.
Developments

Elon Musk, Who Refused to Take a COVID Vaccine, Now Says Vaccines Are Good

Say it ain't so.

By Victor Tangermann

There's a growing body of evidence that the chemical TCE, banned in several countries but common in the US, is causing a huge wave of Parkinson's Disease.
Developments

A Common Chemical Is Causing a Huge Wave of Parkinson’s Disease, Doctor Warns

This chemical is banned in Europe — but common in the US.

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers says it discovered entirely new coronaviruses in genetic data released by agricultural labs in China.
Viruses

Scientists Claim to Discover “Unexpected” New Viruses in Wuhan

Genetic data from an agricultural lab seemed to contain entirely new coronaviruses.

By Dan Robitzski

A French company is developing the world's first hydrogen-powered cargo transport vessel that is set to make its debut some time later this year.
Science & Energy

The World’s First Hydrogen-Powered Cargo Vessel Is About to Set Sail

"The demand for more sustainable technologies in inland waterway transport is on the rise."

By Victor Tangermann

Roughly one in three coronavirus patients are diagnosed with some sort of neurological or psychological condition within six months, according to a study.
Brain

A Third of COVID Patients Are Diagnosed With “Brain Disease”

Anxiety and mood disorders are particularly common.

By Dan Robitzski

Small gelatinous marine organisms called sea salps are wreaking havoc on two nuclear reactors in South Korea, forcing them offline, Bloomberg reports.
Nuclear Fusion

Nuclear Reactors Shut Down by “Jellyfish-Like Organisms”

Cooling systems were clogged up entirely.

By Victor Tangermann

Stanford scientists have posted the Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines' mRNA sequences on GitHub for anybody to download.
Developments

Scientists Post Recipe for Moderna’s COVID Vaccine for Free Online

Anybody can technically make their own COVID vaccine now — if they know how.

By Victor Tangermann

A new smartphone app called Lumenate promises to alter your consciousness, something akin to an LSD trip, using flickering lights.
Prosthetics and Devices

New App Claims to Make You Trip Like You’re on LSD

According to reviews, it's "surprisingly good."

By Victor Tangermann

CNN got an exclusive look at the interior of the supersonic 31-passenger jet that might soon be carrying the president around the world.
Military

US Military Working on Supersonic Air Force One

Executive class at faster than the speed of sound.

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover has sent back a sweet selfie, a stunningly crisp self-image of the six-wheeled rover's "head."
Mars

NASA’s Mars Rover Just Took a Selfie and It’s Actually Beautiful

Hello, Percy.

By Victor Tangermann

A new model shows that we don't need dark energy to explain the expansion of the universe. It might be caused by some new property of dark matter instead.
Energy

Dark Energy, Thought to Comprise Most of the Universe, Might Be Totally Fake

What if it's all just dark matter instead?

By Dan Robitzski

A giant octopus attacked a 34-year-old geologist in Dunsborough, Australia on March 18 — and video of their confrontation has gone viral.
Science & Energy

Giant Octopus Attacks Australian Geologist

He described the creature as "the angriest octopus."

By Tony Ho Tran

In a massive review of existing mouse research, scientists linked a high-sugar, high-fat diet to cognitive impairments later in life.
Food

Mice Fed Fast Food Get Noticeably Stupider, Scientists Warn

Fast food and junk calories cause serious cognitive issues in mice — and possibly in people as well.

By Dan Robitzski

YouTube tinkerer Shane Wighton behind the channel Stuff Made Here built a chainsaw-wielding robotic arm that can chisel a dog shape out of bits of foam.
Robotics

Check Out This Deadly Robot Arm With an Actual Chainsaw

"Stay back, I will kill you."

By Victor Tangermann

NASA just dropped a 14,000 pound model of its Orion spacecraft into a big pool to make sure that it would hold up during a splashdown.
NASA

Watch as NASA Drops a Spacecraft Into a Huge Dunk Tank

There's a good reason, we promise.

By Dan Robitzski

On March 30 SpaceX's Starship SN11 prototype blew up in a massive cloud of orange light. Now, we get to rewatch the explosion in slow motion.
Starship

Starship Exploding in the Fog Looks Amazing in Slow Motion

A Starship explosion has never looked better.

By Victor Tangermann

Reports of mysterious swarms of drones hovering above US Navy ships in July 2019 have top military officials puzzled.
Drones

Navy Official: Mysterious Drones Are Also Swarming Other Countries’ Ships

The Navy still has no idea what they were or where they came from.

By Victor Tangermann

Multiple research teams are working toward a vaccine that protects against every coronavirus at once, including COVID-19 and the common cold.
Viruses

Scientists About to Start Testing a Universal Coronavirus Vaccine in Humans

It could work on SARS, COVID-19, and even the common cold.

By Dan Robitzski