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"I'm the chief engineer of the thing," SpaceX CEO Elon Musk told CBS during a Tuesday interview. "Goes wrong, it's my fault."
Off-World

"There's thousands of things that can go wrong and only one thing that can go right."

By Victor Tangermann

Mission Control Is Socially Distancing During Today’s SpaceX Launch
SpaceX

"And here we are today, in an empty room, talking to cameras."

By Victor Tangermann

A cafe in Daejon, South Korea has hired a robot barista to take care of making and busing drinks around to avoid spreading the coronavirus.
Robotics

The robot can make 60 different types of coffee and can deliver them to customers as well.

By Victor Tangermann

The Elon Musk-led spaceflight company is teasing newambitions — with a line on its site inviting questions about a "private passenger" program.
SpaceX

"For inquiries about our private passenger program, contact..."

By Jon Christian

A team of researchers from Japan have created a "taste display" that's capable of producing any flavor for any tongue that's willing to lick its surface.
Devices

In the future, we could all be licking our smartphone screens.

By Victor Tangermann

A new study on fruit flies found ways to quantitatively measure the level of consciousness that a fly was currently experiencing.
Neuroscience and Brain

It works on fruit flies — and the team hopes it'll work on humans as well.

By Dan Robitzski

A cybernetics expert recently made a bold claim: he argues that online privacy has long since vanished, so we may as well embrace contact-tracing.
Privacy

"Big Brother is with us now, so for our own good we should use it to help not hinder us."

By Dan Robitzski

During a test, a powerful laser weapon system on board the amphibious US Navy ship USS Portland "successfully disabled an unmanned aerial vehicle."
Energy

Get ready for an international arms race in destructive energy weapons.

By Victor Tangermann

An advanced telescope currently being built in Australia will give astronomers a far more detailed glimpse of cosmic events.
Science & Energy

Astronomers will be able to see star explosions in "real time."

By Dan Robitzski

According to comments made on a recent Instagram post, Grimes revealed that her and Elon Musk's baby's name was updated from "X Æ A-12" to "X Æ A-Xii."
Elon Musk

They patched their baby's name like a software update.

By Victor Tangermann

North Dakota's coronavirus contact-tracing app was send data to third-party groups in violation of its own privacy policy.
Science & Energy

This privacy debacle threatens to erode public trust.

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers say they've found a new kind of signal coming from our galaxy's supermassive black hole, which they think are rapidly-rotating flare ups.
Physics

There's unimaginable chaos at the core of our galaxy.

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just cleared SpaceX the go-ahead for its historic launch scheduled for May 27. "We are go for launch!" NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine tweeted.
Crew Dragon

All systems are go for next week's historic launch.

By Victor Tangermann

Musk took the time to reflect on a bizarre and intense number of weeks in an interview with Bloomberg, noting that some of his tweets were "extremely dumb."
Elon Musk

"Some of the things I say, I would like to retract them."

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new study involving 96,000 hospitalized COVID-19 patients, antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine was linked to an increased risk of mortality.
Viruses

Just three days ago, Trump bragged to reporters that he's taking hydroxychloroquine.

By Victor Tangermann

Astronaut pee may be a priceless resource on future Moon settlements. It turns out it makes for a phenomenal building material.
Moon

"Water is very, very valuable on the lunar surface."

By Dan Robitzski

To convince Tesla CEO Elon Musk to open a new factory in the city, a 75-foot statue in Tulsa, Oklahoma just got an Elon Musk makeover.
Elon Musk

What were they thinking?

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers claim their AI can make accurate personality judgments based on selfies alone — and even better than some humans.
Artificial Intelligence

Could this neural network really be better at predicting personality traits than humans?

By Victor Tangermann

A Canadian startup called Anahit Therapeutics is trying to get ahead of the psilocybin legalization curve by building cultivation facilities in Jamaica.
Future Society

It's betting big on the future — and science — of psilocybin.

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers have discovered that a massive rotating disk galaxy called the Wolfe Disk dates back to only ten percent of our universe's current age.
Future Society

The universe is stranger than we ever suspected.

By Victor Tangermann