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The Chinese government recently imposed new restrictions on coronavirua research, and now must approve all studies on the outbreak's origin.
Viruses

China Is Censoring Research Into the Origin of the Coronavirus

"The danger is that when scientific research is subject to the needs of those in power."

By Dan Robitzski

Ford filed an unusual patent last week that would actually keep rideshare passengers from getting paired with a smelly car.
Advanced Transport

Bizarre Ford Patent Lets You Filter Rideshare Cars by Smell

It sounds goofy but could be great for people with allergies.

By Dan Robitzski

Health practitioners are finding that flipping COVID-19 patients onto their stomachs, or "prone positioning," is an effective way to keep them alive.
Viruses

Why Rolling Coronavirus Patients Onto Their Stomachs Is Saving Lives

"We're saving lives with this, one hundred percent."

By Victor Tangermann

A group of COVID-19 truthers have taken to the streets of Vancouver calling the coronavirus outbreak "fake news" and ignoring social distancing rules.
Future Society

Protesters Break Quarantine, Calling COVID-19 “Fake News”

We saw similar conspiracy theories about HIV.

By Victor Tangermann

The FDA just granted an emergency use authorization to a new test that scans saliva samples for the coronavirus, potentially making testing far safer.
Viruses

FDA Approves Test That Scans Your Spit for Coronavirus

No more sticking swabs all the way to the back of your nose.

By Dan Robitzski

Rats across the country are turning to cannibalism and eating their young as a result of the coronavirus outbreak.
Future Society

Expert: Coronavirus Forcing Rats to Cannibalism, Infanticide

"A new 'army' of rats come in, and whichever army has the strongest rats is going to conquer that area."

By Victor Tangermann

A research team failed to find a widely-accepted dark matter particle candidate in the Milky Way galaxy, causing a stir among disagreeing astrophysicists.
Physics

Shocking Research Threatens Our Understanding of Dark Matter

Either scientists were wrong about dark matter, our galaxy doesn't have any, or the paper is wrong.

By Dan Robitzski

NASA spotted a "dragon" in a image taken by University of Arizona's HiRISE camera attached to NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Science & Energy

NASA Spots “Dragon” in Stunning Mars Orbiter Image

Here be dragons.

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers at MIT's Dream Lab are working on a wearable device that can track and interact with dreams in a number of ways for our benefit.
Devices

MIT Scientists Are Building Devices to Hack Your Dreams

"You can try flying, singing, having sex — it’s better than VR."

By Victor Tangermann

Investing

Thanks to This Innovative Fintech, Real Estate Investment Is Easier Than Ever

Let Fundrise help you diversify into private market real estate.

By Futurism Creative

In an entertaining video, a caffeine enthusiast picks up a Starbucks coffee with his drone — to the bemusement of a barista.
Drones

Watch This Madlad Pick Up a Starbucks Coffee Using a Drone

Points for creativity.

By Jon Christian

When he declared a national emergency on March 13, Trump made a lot of grand promises. One month later, most have been broken.
Viruses

A Brief List of Trump’s Broken Coronavirus Promises

Trump has accomplished very little in the month since his emergency declaration.

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk revealed why the Model 3 has a cabin-facing camera above the rearview mirror: to make sure that "robotaxi" passengers don't vandalize the car
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Reveals Reason for Mysterious Cameras Inside Teslas

All right, that's intriguing.

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers think that a bizarre exoplanet called TOI-849b is the stripped core of a gas giant that for some reason or another lost its atmosphere.
Science & Energy

Bizarre Exoplanet Might Be a Gas Giant That Lost its Gas

This could be what the center of Jupiter or Neptune looks like, under all the gas.

By Dan Robitzski

A team of astronomers have spotted the brightest supernova in a galaxy 3.6 billion light-years from Earth. About 500 times brighter than a normal supernova.
Science & Energy

Astronomers Spot Brightest Supernova Ever Observed

It was about 500 times as bright as a normal star explosion.

By Victor Tangermann

Dr. Fauci says it's "obvious" that the U.S. government could have saved a great many lives if it had acted sooner to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
Developments

Fauci: Acting Sooner Would “Obviously” Have Meant Fewer Deaths

"Obviously, no one is going to deny that."

By Dan Robitzski

In an Easter letter, Pope Francis urged that "this may be the time to consider a universal basic wage" to support those hit hardest by the pandemic.
Universal Basic Income

The Pope Just Endorsed Universal Basic Income

Andrew Yang's response: "Wow."

By Victor Tangermann

South Korean officials reported today that more than 116 people had tested positive for COVID-19 after having been cleared of it previously.
Viruses

More Recovered Coronavirus Patients Are Testing Positive Again

This is bad news. Is it really time yet to start easing restrictions?

By Victor Tangermann

Doctors are using data from a wearable to train an AI algorithm that can tell when someone's sick with COVID-19 even before noticeable symptoms start.
Artificial Intelligence

This Smart Ring Uses AI to Spot COVID-19 — Before Symptoms Begin

Imagine if hospital workers could be relieved days before they became contagious.

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers at UC Berkeley just took the temperature of the mysterious rings surrounding Uranus for the first time. They're cold: 77 degrees Kelvin.
Science & Energy

Astronomers Use New Instruments to Probe Rings Around Uranus

"Something has been sweeping the smaller stuff out, or it’s all glomming together. We just don’t know."

By Victor Tangermann