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In a stroke of incredible luck, a NASA/ESA spacecraft is on the right pass to fly right through the tail of a passing comet.
Science & Energy

Tail of the shattered comet.

By Dan Robitzski

Amazing Vid Shows What You’d See If Rockets Were Transparent
Off-World

You can even see the fuel draining out of them.

By Victor Tangermann

New research reveals that a certain class of star gives off rhythmic pulsations that are similar to a person's heartbeat.
Science & Energy

"Now we can detect structure, more like listening to nice chords being played on the piano."

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have developed a brain implant that allowed the blind and previously sighted participants who lost their sight in adulthood "see" letters.
Brain

"They described seeing glowing spots or lines forming the letters, like skywriting."

By Victor Tangermann

Engineers are building experimental rovers that can vibrate intensely to escape from dangerous, wheel-clogging sand traps on Mars.
Mars

Now these are some dance moves.

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new report, Tesla's "million mile" battery could make its EVs far cheaper and also last much longer thanks to new technologies.
Tesla

Are Teslas about to become as cheap as gas cars?

By Victor Tangermann

A website called thisworddoesnotexist uses AI to generate fake but believable definitions for made-up words like "lachetous."
Artificial Intelligence

If we said "lachetous" meant a plant that grows on another plant, would you believe us?

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists figured out how the coronavirus takes over cells, and they think they found potential treatments that stop it.
Viruses

They've identified several compounds that seem to keep the virus from reproducing.

By Dan Robitzski

The Pentagon has released"hazard reports" that give us more details about a series of encounters between US Navy pilots and "unidentified aerial phenomena."
Military

"The unknown aircraft appeared to be small in size, approximately the size of a suitcase, and silver in color."

By Victor Tangermann

"This virus may become just another endemic virus in our communities, and this virus may never go away," WHO emergencies expert Mike Ryan said on Thursday.
Viruses

"This virus may never go away."

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft and the biotech company Adaptive are launching a study on coronavirus patients' T cells, and they're buying blood samples to get started.
Viruses

A doctor will come to your home to draw a sample.

By Dan Robitzski

Software developer Epic Games just released a stunning and near photorealistic tech demo of its latest video game engine called Unreal Engine 5.
Future Society

The company claims the engine could "achieve photorealism on par with movie CG and real life."

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook just agreed to pay $52 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging that its content moderators suffered psychological trauma on the job.
Future Society

"We're committed to providing them additional support through this settlement and in the future."

By Dan Robitzski

Renowned neuroscientist Christof Koch argues that developing conscious artificial intelligence will require entirely new hardware.
Artificial Intelligence

"Any AI that runs on such a chip… will still not be conscious like a human brain."

By Dan Robitzski

Parts of China's gigantic Long March 5B rocket have finally made their uncontrolled descent back to Earth on Monday, splashing into the Atlantic Ocean.
Off-World

It screamed over several major US cities before splashing down in the Atlantic.

By Victor Tangermann

After spending about a week in Earth's orbit, the core stage of China's Long March 5 rocket is now plummeting towards our planet's surface.
Off-World

If you look up, you may see a Chinese spacecraft burning up in the atmosphere.

By Victor Tangermann

Debris from China's Long March-5 rocket may have touched ground on the Ivory Coast after uncontrollably hurtling through the Earth's atmosphere.
Off-World

"Did they perhaps have a plan to de-orbit it that went wrong?"

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new report by The Wall Street Journal, Chinese and Iranian hackers are targeting US efforts to develop a coronavirus vaccine.
Viruses

"China has long engaged in the theft of biomedical research, and COVID-19 research is the field’s Holy Grail right now."

By Victor Tangermann

The machine learning algorithms that recommend products online can't keep up with how rapidly the pandemic has changed our lives.
Machine Learning

"You're trying to optimize for toilet paper, … this week everyone wants to buy puzzles or gym equipment."

By Dan Robitzski

A new study led by the ESA found new evidence that Jupiter's moon Europa was indeed spouting plumes of water into space during a Galileo flyby.
Space

What is Jupiter's smallest moon hiding below its thick icy shell?

By Victor Tangermann