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A team of scientists found that Irish soda bread can serve as a viable, low-cost alternative for cell scaffolding in the lab.
Biology

Scientists Are Using Bread as a Scaffold for Human Cells

Human muscle, skin, and bone cells were able to cling on and proliferate.

By Dan Robitzski

Students at the University of California in San Diego are now able to get a coronavirus test kit — from a vending machine.
Developments

You Can Now Get a COVID Test in a Vending Machine

This university is getting serious about testing.

By Victor Tangermann

The logic behind simulation theory, or the idea that we live in a virtual reality, doesn't really make sense, according to mathemetician Jonathan Bartlett.
Future Society

Mathematician: Here’s Why the Simulation Theory Is Stupid

"There’s kind of a faulty logic that goes to why a lot of people think we live in a simulation."

By Dan Robitzski

A diagram conspiracy theorists claimed to be of a 5G chip that had been inserted into the COVID-19 vaccine turned out to be the schematic of a guitar pedal.
Developments

This Might Be the Dumbest Vaccine Conspiracy Theory We’ve Ever Seen

Turns out you CAN actually make this stuff up.

By Victor Tangermann

Israeli biotech company Nanocare claims to have created a gun that can spin out "Spider-Man"-like webs that can cover burns and wounds.
Prosthetics and Devices

Scientists Invent Gun That Shoots “Skin Substitute” onto Burn Victims

It's like Spider-Man's web shooters, researchers say.

By Victor Tangermann

Several counties in Florida are scheduling coronavirus vaccinations through Eventbrite, raising multiple issues with the system.
Viruses

Florida Is Doling out Coronavirus Vaccines Over Eventbrite

It's going about as well as you'd expect.

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says the company will try to catch a Super Heavy booster rocket with a launch tower so it doesn't need to rely entirely on its legs.
Starship

SpaceX Wants to Catch Starship Booster With Its Own Launch Tower

"We’re going to try to catch the Super Heavy Booster with the launch tower arm, using the grid fins to take the load."

By Dan Robitzski

A San Jose hospital staff member dressed in a self-inflating Christmas tree costume likely caused a COVID-19 outbreak, that infected 43 and killed one.
Developments

Deadly COVID Outbreak Linked to Inflatable Christmas Tree Costume

This hospital employee spread more than just Christmas cheer.

By Victor Tangermann

Vybe Together, an app that coordinated secret parties during the pandemic, just got removed from the Apple app store after an onslaught of criticism.
Developments

Apple Takes Down App That Coordinated Maskless Parties

It encouraged users to attend parties — despite the pandemic.

By Dan Robitzski

Patently Apple spotted a fascinating new patent by Apple: a system that would add a tiny screen to every single key on a device's keyboard.
Robots and Machines

Apple Patents Tech to Put Tiny Screen on Every Keyboard Key

QWERTY never looked this good.

By Jon Christian

UK Military Unveils Tiny Spy Drones That Can Travel Over a Mile
Drones

UK Military Unveils Tiny Spy Drones That Can Travel Over a Mile

The palm-sized robots can even weather 50 MPH winds.

By Dan Robitzski

The Russian oil company Gazpromneft built a Bitcoin mining facility in its Siberian oil field to make use of energy from excess gases.
Energy

Russian Oil Company Builds Bitcoin Farm in Siberia

It's sucking gas out of the ground and turning it into cryptocurrency.

By Dan Robitzski

Thanks to electrodes implanted in his brain, a man was able to feed himself with two robotic arms, controlling them with nothing more than his thoughts.
RX and Medicine

Watch a Quadriplegic Man Feed Himself With Two Bionic Arms

They're wired directly into his brain.

By Dan Robitzski

As patients in Los Angeles get the coronavirus vaccine, they can also get digital proof of their inoculation that could work like an "immunity passport."
Viruses

LA Plans to Issue Digital “Passports” With Coronavirus Vaccines

Your smartphone would prove you'd been inoculated.

By Dan Robitzski

A man is suing NJ police after he was wrongfully arrested and imprisoned because of flawed, since-banned facial recognition AI.
Facial recognition

Lawsuit Claims Facial Recognition AI Sent the Wrong Man to Jail

Should cops arrest a suspect based only on a facial recognition match?

By Dan Robitzski

A new Tesla update allows drivers to change their vehicle's horn sound to basically anything they'd possibly want — including fart noises.
Tesla

Tesla Owners Can Now Set Their Horn to Fart, Meme Sounds

Thanks, Elon.

By Victor Tangermann

German carmaker Volkswagen has unveiled a working prototype of a robot that can autonomously charge electric cars.
Advanced Transport

VW Shows Off Futuristic Car Charging Robot Prototype

It's like an R2-D2 for your electric car.

By Victor Tangermann

In a recent interview with Autoblog, Ford VP Darren Palmer threw some serious shade at other electric car makers' quality control — likely including Tesla.
Tesla

Ford VP Throws Serious Shade at Tesla’s Lack of Quality Control

"The doors fit properly, the plastics and other materials color-match, the bumpers don’t fall off..."

By Victor Tangermann

A space tourist smuggled remains of James Doohan, known for his role as Montgomery "Scotty" Scott on the original "Star Trek" TV series, into space.
Off-World

Astronaut Secretly Smuggled Human Remains to Space Station

"It was completely clandestine."

By Victor Tangermann

MIT artist-in-residence Deimut Strebe mirrored COVID-19's spread across the U.S. with an unsettling slime mold experiment. Here, she explains why.
Science & Energy

An MIT Artist Used Slime Mold to Simulate COVID Spread

"Slime mold is a single-celled organism, but it forms cooperatives. It's very interesting to see its behavior, which you could describe as 'intelligent' in human terms."

By Dan Robitzski