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The newly-minted US Space Force launched a secretive Boeing spacecraft this weekend, loaded with military and NASA equipment.
Space Force

US Space Force Launches Secretive Spacecraft

This slow-motion footage is pretty impressive.

Police in China, Italy, Dubai, and multiple other countries are now wearing thermal cameras embedded in their helmets to scan for fevers.
Viruses

Cops Around the World Are Scanning for Fevers With Helmet Cams

Greetings, citizen.

Therapeutics firm Sorrento claims to have found the first ingredient for its "cocktail" of antibodies that could protect against the coronavirus.
Developments

Pharma Company Claims to Find Part of COVID-Fighting Cocktail

Could this antibody cocktail act as a "protective shield" against infection?

Scientist Discovers Gross New Fungus on Twitter
Biology

Scientist Discovers Gross New Fungus on Twitter

"As far as we know, this is the first time that a new species has been discovered on Twitter."

A new study by researchers suggests that the body builds a robust antiviral immune response after fighting the coronavirus. Good news for a vaccine.
Developments

Good News: Human Body Builds “Robust” Immune Response to COVID

"These findings are really good news for vaccine development."

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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."

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.

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?

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?

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.

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."

"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."

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.