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A team of researchers have come up with an idea to help contain the number of new coronavirus infections: working 4 days, and then staying at home for 10.
Developments

Working for four days — and then staying at home for ten — could bring down infections.

By Victor Tangermann

GOP Majority Leader Mitch McConnell introduced two provisions to the Patriot Act that would give the government broad new powers to spy on every American.
Future Society

"These are two of the most cynical attempts to undermine surveillance reform I've ever seen."

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX has launched a browser-based simulator that allows you to take over the controls of a Crew Dragon spacecraft and dock it to the Space Station.
International Space Station

SpaceX just released a videogame. Can you beat it?

By Victor Tangermann

In order to protect future Mars settlers from deadly cosmic radiation, researchers suggest building homes in underground tunnels called lava tubes.
Mars

There's just one catch.

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is about to set off an intentional and controlled fire inside a spacecraft — and it just left the International Space Station.
Science & Energy

It's for science, okay?

By Victor Tangermann

DARPA is preparing to launch the first experimental satellite of its Blackjack network, which would function like a military version of SpaceX's Starlink.
DARPA

The first satellite of the Blackjack network is launching later this year.

By Dan Robitzski

The clinic CityMD told 15,000 patients who took a COVID-19 test that they had built up an immunity against the disease, which is more than the test reveals.
Developments

It apologized and is now letting all patients know about the mistake.

By Dan Robitzski

Dr. Fauci argues that the country isn't ready to reopen, and that doing so will lead to a spike in new coronavirus cases and deaths.
Developments

"We're reopening based on politics, ideology and public pressure. And I think it’s going to end badly."

By Dan Robitzski

Wuhan, the Chinese city that was at the epicenter of the coronavirus, is planning to test all 11 million inhabitants, according to a state media report.
Developments

The scale of the operation is staggering.

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla has started making cars again at its Fremont, California plant despite shelter-in-place orders in Alameda County. Musk couldn't wait.
Tesla

"Tesla is filing a lawsuit against Alameda County immediately."

By Victor Tangermann

A resurgence of coronavirus cases is starting to hit China, South Korea and Germany — just as governments are starting to loosen restrictions.
Viruses

"It's not over until it's over."

By Victor Tangermann

A team of MIT researchers are suggesting that we could use a "dynamic orbital slingshot" to get an unprecedented up-and-close look at interstellar objects.
Science & Energy

An MIT plan would fling spacecraft toward interstellar visitors — before they careen out of our star system forever.

By Victor Tangermann

The thermal, fever-detecting cameras being installed in workplaces and hospitals are unlikely to actually stop future coronavirus outbreaks.
Science & Energy

Fever checkpoints didn't stop SARS, Ebola, or swine flu. It's unlikely they'll work for COVID, experts say.

By Dan Robitzski

To better understand how black holes form and what gravitational waves they give off, physicists are repeatedly simulating extremely violent supernovae.
Physics

They're simulating the most violent star deaths imaginable, for science.

By Dan Robitzski

Russia's space agency Roscosmos announced on Sunday that the tanks of the Russian Fregat-SB upper stage have disintegrated in Earth's orbit.
Off-World

The US Air Force is now tracking 65 associated pieces in orbit.

By Victor Tangermann

Dark web marketplaces are full of listings for COVID-19 diagnostic tests and debunked or experimental treatments like hydroxychloroquine or remdesivir.
RX and Medicine

Online sellers are hoarding hydroxychloroquine, remdesivir, and coronavirus tests — and selling them alongside meth and heroin.

By Dan Robitzski

In a new report, scientists discussed how to ensure that space travelers don't contaminate distant planets — and that they won't bring back pollutants.
Off-World

NASA's Mars samples will be "quarantined and treated as though they are the Ebola virus until proven safe."

By Victor Tangermann

In two emails sent to all US-based employees, Tesla outlined their plans to get production back on track. 30 percent of the regular workforce will return.
Elon Musk

"I will be on the line personally helping wherever I can."

By Victor Tangermann

A beautiful new infrared image of Jupiter makes the entire gassy planet look like it's turned into a giant, swirling fireball.
Science & Energy

This is one of the sharpest images of Jupiter in history.

By Dan Robitzski

An astrophysicist thinks that the mysterious Planet Nine may really be a six centimeter-wide black hole. And he has a plan to finally find it.
Science & Energy

If the mysterious "Planet Nine" is actually a black hole, this physicist has a plan to find it.

By Dan Robitzski