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Oculus founder Palmer Luckey recently said that video games would be a whole lot more interesting if we faced real-world danger for dying in-game.
Robots and Machines

Oculus Founder Suggests Video Games That Kill You in Real Life

It's time to start obeying traffic laws in "Grand Theft Auto."

By Dan Robitzski

People in China have a new obsession: Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, as The New York Times reports.
Elon Musk

People in China Absolutely Love Elon Musk

"He’s everybody’s hope."

By Victor Tangermann

In order to protect Earth's biodiversity from global crises, a team of engineers suggests building a massive sperm bank and seed vault on the Moon.
Moon

Scientists Are Aiming to Send 6.7 Million Sperm Samples to the Moon

It's a backup plan to prevent an, uh, sticky situation here on Earth.

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla's massive stamping machine, perhaps one of the largest of its kind, caught on fire at the company's factory in Fremont, California.
Tesla

Huge Assembly Line Machine Catches on Fire at Tesla Factory

"The cause of the fire is molten aluminum and hydraulic fluid."

By Victor Tangermann

A team of physicists are investigating a radical quantum theory of time which posits that there is an asymmetry between time and space.
Off-World

Is This Startup Working on an Actual Warp Drive?

We've never been closer to traveling near the speed of light.

By Victor Tangermann

Nanoprobes called bioharmonophores can seek out and bind to cancer cells, making them glow brightly under medical scanners.
Cancer

Cancer-Hunting Nanotech Makes Tumors Light Up

Spotting tumors might become a whole lot simpler.

By Dan Robitzski

A group of 11,000 patients across England who have experienced symptoms of bowel cancer are lining up to receive a drug capsule with a camera inside of it.
Cancer

Thousands of Patients Are Swallowing Tiny Pill-Cameras to Look for Cancer

"The whole process was so smooth and so comfortable; it was literally pain free."

By Victor Tangermann

A meteor rocketed over Vermont and exploded with such a powerful blast that it shook buildings and registered as seismic activity.
Science & Energy

This Meteor Exploded So Violently That It Shook Entire Buildings Below

The ten-pound rock exploded with the force of 440 pounds of TNT.

By Dan Robitzski

A Kroger clinic in Virginia accidentally gave some people injections of air instead of the coronavirus vaccines they thought they were getting.
Viruses

Vaccine Distribution Site Accidentally Gave Out Empty Shots

A Kroger clinic in Virginia jabbed people — but forgot the vaccine.

By Dan Robitzski

A non fungible token by digital artist Mike Winkelmann, or "Beeple," has sold for an astonishing $69 million at world-renowned auction house Christie's.
NFTs

An NFT Painting Just Sold For $69 Million

Is the future of fine art collecting... on the blockchain?

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's new Mars rover Perseverance scooped up its first rock and soil samples, officially beginning the hunt for extraterrestrial life.
Mars

Perseverance Is Now Officially Searching for Life on Mars

The hunt begins.

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new blog post, Facebook is hoping to hook up its upcoming AR glasses to a "soft wristband" that can control them.
Meta

Facebook Shows Off Neural “Wristbands” to Control AR Glasses

These wristbands use a small EMG to capture signals from the spinal cord.

By Victor Tangermann

Citizens were outraged after the mayor of the Japanese town Suttsu volunteered to be considered as a nucelar waste storage site.
Nuclear Fusion

Japanese Mayor’s House Firebombed to Protest Nuclear Power

The Fukushima disaster still looms large in Japan's collective memory.

By Dan Robitzski

Victor Smith, a 91-year-old man from Ohio, accidentally got two shots of the COVID vaccine in a single day, local NBC-affiliated news station WLWT5 reports.
Developments

A Man Accidentally Got Two COVID Vaccines on the Same Day and It Was Not Good

"They pretty much told me he was not going to make it."

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has released an incredible video of the pictures its Perseverance rover took right before landing on Mars on February 18th.
Mars

First-Person Vid Shows Perseverance Hurtling Toward Mars Surface

"You’re looking at the real deal images I used to make my pinpoint landing."

By Victor Tangermann

An international team of researchers has dug through hundreds of years worth of data surrounding the Earth's magnetic field and found something unusual.
Science & Energy

A Huge “Magnetic Anomaly” Struck One Geographic Spot, Hundreds of Years Ago

The research could help scientists predict future geomagnetic shifts.

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers at the University of California, San Diego have come up with a possible way to reduce chronic pain by temporarily altering a gene.
Health & Medicine

Scientists Say a Gene Hack Could Make You Feel Less Pain

"This has a lot of potential to help patients in the clinic that have intractable pain."

By Victor Tangermann

Some scientists suggest that gene-hacking trees to grow faster and be more resilient could help fight climate change by restoring carbon sinks.
Climate Change

Report: Climate Change Is Now Causing “Worrying” Health Impacts

"Climate change-induced shocks are claiming lives, damaging health and disrupting livelihoods in all parts of the world right now."

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists thought the asteroid belt was either the remains of a destroyed planet or the raw materials to make a new one, but the answer is more complex.
Off-World

Is the Asteroid Belt What’s Left of an Obliterated Planet?

"In that context, we sometimes call the asteroid belt the blood spatter of the solar system."

By Dan Robitzski

An Australian soccer player with an injury that left him with quadriplegia is learning to walk again with the help of a robotic exoskeleton.
Health & Medicine

Paralyzed Soccer Player Walks Again Using Exoskeleton Suit

"I found that it's sped up the process of me being able to regain walking function."

By Dan Robitzski