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A scientific panel told White House officials that the coronavirus can be spread not just through coughs and sneezes, but speaking and breathing as well.
Viruses

Panel of Experts: You Can Spread the Coronavirus Just by Talking

Don't speak / I know just what you're sprayin.

An ominous scoop by The Courier-Journal, a local paper in Kentucky: judges in the state are ordering coronavirus patients to isolate — a demand they're enforcing by making them wear ankle monitors, as if they were under house arrest.
Viruses

Kentucky Is Forcing Coronavirus Patients to Wear Ankle Monitors

"These people aren't charged with a crime."

Zoom, the increasingly-popular video conferencing program, has extremely flawed cybersecurity in place. Companies like SpaceX have already banned it.
Science & Energy

Experts Warn That Hackers Can Use Zoom to Take Over Your Computer

SpaceX has already banned the meeting software.

Korean pop star Kim Jae-joong did what everybody on the internet agreed not to do: make an off-flavor April Fools joke about the coronavirus.
Viruses

K-Pop Star Makes Terrible April Fools Joke About Having Coronavirus

We thought April Fools was cancelled this year.

Remember those ventilators that Elon Musk delivered? They're actually sleep apnea machines, and doctors suggest they could help spread the coronavirus.
Elon Musk

Oops: Elon Musk Donated the Wrong Kind of Ventilator

He promised life-saving ventilators. He delivered sleep apnea machines.

In 2015, a international team of astronomers watched a white dwarf star gobbling up the planets in its very own system like a mother devouring its young.
Science & Energy

Star Blasts Own Planets Into Shattered Corpses, Devours Remains

A new field of study is born: "Necroplanetology."

Experts believe that World War II veteran Bill Lapschies maynow be the world's oldest survivor of the coronavirus currently causing a global pandeic.
Viruses

104-Year-Old World War II Veteran Survives Coronavirus

Finally, some good news.

A team at Carnegie Mellon University has released an app that they say can determine whether you likely have COVID-19 — just by listening to your voice.
Developments

New App Attempts to Detect Signs of COVID-19 Using Voice Analysis

You can try it out right here.

Anonymous intelligence officials say that there's evidence China systematically downplayed the size and severity of its coronavirus outbreak.
Developments

Secret U.S. Intelligence Report: China Hid The Size of the Pandemic

Intelligence officials say China is still underreporting the severity of the coronavirus outbreak.

Bill Gates: US “Missed the Opportunity” to Prevent Catastrophe
Developments

Bill Gates: US “Missed the Opportunity” to Prevent Catastrophe

Here's how Gates wants to stop the coronavirus before it kills hundreds of thousands.

That public health guideline to stay six feet apart from others is based on 90-year-old-reseach. We now know viruses can spread much farther.
Developments

MIT Professor: Guidelines to Stay Six Feet Apart Aren’t Enough

The "six-foot rule" for the coronavirus is based on science from the 1930s.

Australian startup Cortical Labs is building tiny artificial intelligence-powered computer chips that use biological neurons extracted from mice.
Computers

This Startup’s Computer Chips Are Powered by Human Neurons

Biological "hybrid computer chips" could drastically lower the amount of power required to run AI systems.

Elon Musk announced his renewed efforts to supply hospitals around the country — and internationally — with ventilators amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk is Shipping Free Ventilators to Hospitals Worldwide

"Only requirement is that the vents are needed immediately for patients, not stored in a warehouse."

New research on a bizarre nuclear reaction could explain why some stars explode like gigantic stellar thermonuclear bombs.
Science & Energy

Poison in the Hearts of Stars Can Make Them Explode

Neon in a star's core can act like a ticking time bomb.

SpaceX has released an early version of a user manual for its Starship, a rocket that's meant to one day ferry up to 100 passengers to the Moon and beyond.
Starship

SpaceX Starship “User Guide” Details Private Cabins, Common Areas

The trip to Mars will also feature "solar storm shelters" and a "viewing gallery."

Researchers say they've built a system that can translate brain signals directly into text — allow users to think text directly into a computer.
Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Debut System to Translate Thoughts Directly Into Text

It could effectively allow you to think text directly into a computer.

On Monday, General Electric factory workers staged a mass walk-off to compel the company to start mass-producing medical ventilators.
Robots and Machines

GE Workers Protest: We Want To Build Ventilators, Let Us Build Ventilators

Factory workers walked out on Monday.

In an experiment, a team of European researchers attempted to use the main compound in human urine and lunar regolith to create a resilient concrete.
Moon

Scientists: Astronauts Could Build Moon Base Using Human Urine

Need a resilient lunar building material? Urine luck.

Advanced Transport

5 Ways an Electric Bike Will Change Your Life

The time of the electric bike is here.

In a grim milestone, the coronavirus has now taken more American lives than Al Qaeda did on the September 11 terror attack in 2001.
Viruses

The Coronavirus Has Now Killed More Americans Than September 11

What lessons will we take from this?