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Washington state emergency responders were able to get early access to SpaceX's Starlink satellite broadband service for regions affected by wildfires.
Future Society

SpaceX Gives Early Starlink Internet to Towns Destroyed by Wildfires

"Glad SpaceX could help!"

By Victor Tangermann

Astrobiologist Caleb Scharf suggests that it would be much easier to find intelligent extraterrestrial life while it's facing the apocalypse.
Science & Energy

Scientist: Aliens Facing the Apocalypse Would Be Easier to Find

"We may yet find ourselves detecting the shrieks of civilizations across our galaxy."

By Dan Robitzski

As their eerie name suggests, "zombie storms" occurs when strong tropical climates cause storms to come back from the dead.
Science & Energy

National Weather Service Warns of “Zombie Storms”

Hurricane Paulette rose from the dead last week.

By Victor Tangermann

The HP Omnicept measures biometrics to tell when people are stressed, which could be a good tool for high-stakes job simulations.
Virtual Reality

New VR Headset Reads Your Biometrics to Find Your Breaking Point

It monitors your heartbeat, pupil size and more — all in a bid to measure your stress level.

By Dan Robitzski

The biotech company LambdaVision is launching a project to manufacture artificial retinas for blind patients out in space.
Developments

Biotech Company Plans to Manufacture Artificial Retinas in Space

NASA is launching its first experiment to the space station this month.

By Dan Robitzski

A new enzyme, which is really a hybrid of two others, can break down plastic waste six times faster than the next best one.
Environment

Scientists Create Enzyme That Devours Plastic at Incredible Speed

The new enzyme breaks down plastic six times faster than the previous best one.

By Dan Robitzski

Despite all of Amazon's claims to the contrary, warehouse workers suffer extremely high rates of injuries, and impossible quotas and robots make it worse.
Future Society

Injuries Went Up When Amazon Deployed Warehouse Robots

The robots made Amazon more efficient — but also far more dangerous.

By Dan Robitzski

According to an update, NASA's ground analysis concluded that the leak on board the International Space Station "appeared to grow in size."
International Space Station

NASA Says the International Space Station Is Leaking Faster Now

The ISS leak "appeared to grow in size," according to a NASA spokesperson.

By Victor Tangermann

An aviation company ZeroAvia successfully flight tested a hydrogen-powered passenger plane and has more ambitious tests planned in the future.
Advanced Transport

Researchers Successfully Test Hydrogen-Powered Passenger Plane

It's an impressive proof of concept for hydrogen-powered air travel.

By Dan Robitzski

Last week, a meteoroid briefly visited our planet before bouncing off our atmosphere like a stone skipping across a lake.
Science & Energy

Watch a Meteoroid Bounce Off the Earth’s Atmosphere

Swerve!

By Dan Robitzski

NASA has officially set the date for SpaceX's long awaited Crew-1 mission to the International Space Station for 2:40 am Eastern time on October 31.
NASA

NASA: Next SpaceX Astronaut Launch Will Be on Halloween

Trick or treat!

By Victor Tangermann

Cornell scientists developed a robot so tiny that it's invisible to the human eye — and they say it could someday hunt for cancer inside your body.
Robotics

This Robot Is So Tiny You Could Fit Ten of Them on a Single Period

Its creators hope the microscopic bot will crawl around inside your body to fight cancer.

By Dan Robitzski

A UK helicopter emergency services charity is in talks with Gravity Industries to allow paramedics to jetpack up a mountain to provide first aid.
Robots and Machines

Paramedics Test Jetpack For Daring Mountain Rescues

It could cut a grueling trip up a mountain down to a 90 second flight.

By Victor Tangermann

Japan Outlines Plan to Power Spacecraft With Moon Ice
Moon

Japan Outlines Plan to Power Spacecraft With Moon Ice

Generating fuel on the Moon is a lot cheaper than bringing your own.

By Victor Tangermann

An outrageously strange paper claims, among other things, that there's a black hole at the center of the Earth. Sometthing's fishy.
Science & Energy

Strange Research Paper Claims There’s a Black Hole at the Center of the Earth

Don't worry — there's a perfectly reasonable explanation.

By Jon Christian

A team of scientists measured the mass of 1,800 galaxy clusters to get the most precise number for how much matter is in the universe yet.
Physics

Scientists Calculated How Much Matter Is in the Whole Universe

Evenly distributed, the universe only has six hydrogen atoms per cubic meter.

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists just announced the discovery of two organisms that eats viruses — the first credible finding of that type of creature.
Viruses

Scientists Discover Organisms That Eat Viruses

Take that, viruses!

By Jon Christian

The Italian scientists who found an undergound lake beneath the south pole of Mars revisited their data — and uncovered three more.
Science & Energy

Scientists Just Found Three More Reservoirs of Liquid Water on Mars

There could be as many as four underground lakes beneath the south pole.

By Dan Robitzski

A hacker forced a smart coffeemaker to turn on its heating element and spit steaming water onto it while showing a ransomware message.
Robots and Machines

Watch a Hacked “Smart Coffeemaker” Spew Steaming Water

How much harm could a hacked coffeemaker do?

By Jon Christian

A new brain-computer interface system can generate an image of a face based just on someone's neural activity as they picture certain characteristics.
Neuroscience and Brain

New System Reads Your Brain Waves, Draws a Picture of What You’re Thinking About

The brain-computer interface was able to generate faces as people pictured them.

By Dan Robitzski