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Tesla senior industrial designer Remy Labesque, who normally works on solar panels and EV chargers, just reinvented the chocolate chip.
Science & Energy

Tesla Designer Reinvents the Chocolate Chip

This "who needs this?" moment may be the best illustration of Silicon Valley yet.

By Dan Robitzski

Apple filed a patent describing AirPods that can automatically adjust volume in either ear based on where you are and what you're up to.
Artificial Intelligence

Bizarre Apple Patent Describes Self-Aware AirPods

They would automatically adjust volume and balance based on what you're doing.

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon was approved by the Federal Communications Commission to launch 3,326 satellites as part of its Kuiper constellation. That has astronomers worried.
Future Society

Amazon’s Constellation of 3,236 Satellites Has Astronomers Very, Very Freaked Out

"To me, honestly, it feels like putting a bunch of planes up and then not having air traffic control."

By Victor Tangermann

Japan is pouring money into the development of flying cars with aims of commercializing the futuristic mode of transportation as soon as 2023.
Advanced Transport

Flying Cars Are Actually, Finally Becoming a Reality in Japan

The dream of the flying car is still alive.

By Victor Tangermann

A team of Stanford researchers have created a "hydrodynamic treadmill," essentially an endless loop of water, to closely observe microorganisms.
Science & Energy

Scientists Built a Tiny Treadmill for Microscopic Water Creatures

“This is a completely new way of studying life in the ocean.”

By Victor Tangermann

NASA scientists have been tracking a strange "dent" in the Earth's magnetic field as its slowly moving westwards over the southern Atlantic Ocean.
Science & Energy

NASA Is Tracking a “Dent” in the Earth’s Magnetic Field

Vicious solar storms are deforming the Earth's magnetic field — especially in this one spot.

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new report, Facebook only flags about 16 percent of the medical misinformation that gets posted on the platform.
Future Society

Facebook Only Catches 16 Percent of Medical Misinformation Posts

Countless users are seeing dangerous, unchecked misinformation on their feeds.

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new study, a supernova some 65 light-years from Earth caused a mass extinction event during the Late Devonian period, 359 million years ago.
Science & Energy

Scientists: Exploding Star Likely Caused Mass Extinction on Earth

Scientists are starting to suspect that an ancient supernova irradiated our entire planet — killing much of its life.

By Victor Tangermann

Anderson Cooper recently interviewed MyPillow creator and medical scam pusher Mike Lindell over a compound he's claiming without evidence can cure COVID-19.
Developments

Watch a Guy Selling a Fake COVID-19 Cure Get Absolutely Destroyed

"You have no medical background, you're not a scientist. Yet you’re claiming this substance, which has not been studied in any meaningful way, can cure COVID."

By Dan Robitzski

This week, two more universities, University of Notre Dame and Michigan State University announced they're moving classes online for two weeks.
Developments

Oops: Colleges Are Already Canceling In-Person Classes

"UNC has a clusterfuck on its hands."

By Victor Tangermann

In a landmark study, researchers have used gene editing to remove the oral herpes virus (HSV-1) in mice. The technique could also work in humans.
Health & Medicine

Scientists Use Gene-Hacking to Seemingly Cure Herpes in Mice

"I hope this study changes the dialog around herpes research and opens up the idea that we can start thinking about cure, rather than just control of the virus."

By Victor Tangermann

MIT engineer Asegun Henry has a dire warning: if we don't stop pouring heat into the environment soon, humanity won't live much longer.
Climate Change

MIT Professor: I Fear Imminent Human Extinction

"We need dramatic change, not yesterday, but years ago."

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists saw bacteria subjected to different conditions rapidly develop different evolutionary strategies, helping explain why some become dangerous.
Biology

Scientists Just Watched Bacteria Evolve in Real Time

It's hard to argue with evolution when you can see it happening right in front of you.

By Dan Robitzski

Your smartphone is able to tell if you've had one too many drinks according to a new study published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.
Prosthetics and Devices

Oh Great, Now Your Smartphone Can Tell If You’re Drunk

Notifications could remind people they're too impaired to drive.

By Victor Tangermann

An army of 100,000 volunteers have identifed almost 100 of a new class of frigid brown dwarf floating near our solar system.
Science & Energy

An Army of Citizen Scientists Found Nearly 100 Nearby Brown Dwarfs

100,000 volunteers, 100 new celestial bodies.

By Dan Robitzski

Multiple federal law enforcement agencies are buying people's cell phone location data, circumventing the need to obtain a warrant.
Science & Energy

Cops Are Buying Your Social Media Location Data Without a Warrant

The Secret Service, the IRS, and ICE are paying for your location data.

By Dan Robitzski

A team of Harvard astronomers have a wild new theory: the Sun used to have a star companion while the solar system was being formed.
Science & Energy

Harvard Astronomers Propose That Our Star System Used to Be Binary

"The Sun's long-lost companion could now be anywhere in the Milky Way."

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX just beat its own record by reusing a single Falcon first stage called B1049.6 for the sixth time after launching from Cape Canaveral this morning.
SpaceX

SpaceX Just Reused a Single Booster for the 6th Time

SpaceX is making it look easy.

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced on Twitter that his space company's Raptor engine just aced an important pressure test "without exploding."
SpaceX

SpaceX Tests Highest Pressure Rocket Engine In History

Yet another milestone for Starship.

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists thinks it's cracked the code for developing electronics that can be embedded in someone's body without causing scarring along the way.
Prosthetics and Devices

Doctors Want to Put Chips In Your Body to Monitor Tumors

They're trying to make them less harmful to the body.

By Dan Robitzski