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A team of engineers and physicists is 3D printing a nuclear reactor, which they say will help speed up the pace at which the slow-paced industry innovates.
3D Printing

Engineers Are 3D-Printing a Nuclear Reactor

"We know all these concepts work. The problem is we can't build them fast and cheap enough."

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers managed to create the most thoroughly-intermixed human-mouse chimera hybrids to date, thanks to a weird stem cell-manipulating trick.
Biology

Scientists Are Creating Mouse-Human Hybrids

They want to use them to farm human organs.

By Dan Robitzski

Two Rohingya refugees in the world's largest refugee camp in Bangladesh have tested positive for the coronavirus, the BBC reports.
Developments

Report: COVID Has Spread to the World’s Largest Refugee Camp

Experts say a coronavirus outbreak in a refugee camp is a worst-case scenario.

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new study, a large medical system located in New York, over a third of COVID-19 patients experienced acute kidney injury.
Developments

Study: COVID Patients Suffering Acute Kidney Damage

A new piece of the coronavirus puzzle.

By Victor Tangermann

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

Research Spacecraft May Pass Through Tail of Dead Comet

Tail of the shattered comet.

By Dan Robitzski

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

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

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

Astronomers: Some Stars Have Something Akin to a Heartbeat

"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

Brain Implant Allows Blind People to “See” Letters

"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

This Wiggly Mars Rover Is the Silliest Thing We’ve Ever Seen

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

Tesla Leak Describes Upcoming “Million Mile” Battery

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

This Delightful AI Generates Words That Sound Real But Aren’t

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

Scientists Have a Promising New Idea to Defeat the Coronavirus

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

US Military Releases New Info About Navy UFO Videos

"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

WHO: The Coronavirus Might Be Here Forever

"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

Microsoft Is Buying COVID-19 Patients’ Blood for Biotech Research

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

This Hyper-Realistic Game Engine Looks Almost Like Real Life

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

Facebook Will Pay Mods $52M For Trauma From Gore, Sexual Abuse

"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

Neuroscientist: Conventional Computers Will Never Be Conscious

"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

Oops: China Just Dropped a Huge Rocket Piece Back to Earth

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

A Massive Chinese Rocket Is Plummeting Out of the Sky Right Now

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

By Victor Tangermann