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Small gelatinous marine organisms called sea salps are wreaking havoc on two nuclear reactors in South Korea, forcing them offline, Bloomberg reports.
Nuclear Fusion

Nuclear Reactors Shut Down by “Jellyfish-Like Organisms”

Cooling systems were clogged up entirely.

By Victor Tangermann

Stanford scientists have posted the Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines' mRNA sequences on GitHub for anybody to download.
Developments

Scientists Post Recipe for Moderna’s COVID Vaccine for Free Online

Anybody can technically make their own COVID vaccine now — if they know how.

By Victor Tangermann

A new smartphone app called Lumenate promises to alter your consciousness, something akin to an LSD trip, using flickering lights.
Prosthetics and Devices

New App Claims to Make You Trip Like You’re on LSD

According to reviews, it's "surprisingly good."

By Victor Tangermann

CNN got an exclusive look at the interior of the supersonic 31-passenger jet that might soon be carrying the president around the world.
Military

US Military Working on Supersonic Air Force One

Executive class at faster than the speed of sound.

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover has sent back a sweet selfie, a stunningly crisp self-image of the six-wheeled rover's "head."
Mars

NASA’s Mars Rover Just Took a Selfie and It’s Actually Beautiful

Hello, Percy.

By Victor Tangermann

A new model shows that we don't need dark energy to explain the expansion of the universe. It might be caused by some new property of dark matter instead.
Energy

Dark Energy, Thought to Comprise Most of the Universe, Might Be Totally Fake

What if it's all just dark matter instead?

By Dan Robitzski

A giant octopus attacked a 34-year-old geologist in Dunsborough, Australia on March 18 — and video of their confrontation has gone viral.
Science & Energy

Giant Octopus Attacks Australian Geologist

He described the creature as "the angriest octopus."

By Tony Ho Tran

In a massive review of existing mouse research, scientists linked a high-sugar, high-fat diet to cognitive impairments later in life.
Food

Mice Fed Fast Food Get Noticeably Stupider, Scientists Warn

Fast food and junk calories cause serious cognitive issues in mice — and possibly in people as well.

By Dan Robitzski

YouTube tinkerer Shane Wighton behind the channel Stuff Made Here built a chainsaw-wielding robotic arm that can chisel a dog shape out of bits of foam.
Robotics

Check Out This Deadly Robot Arm With an Actual Chainsaw

"Stay back, I will kill you."

By Victor Tangermann

NASA just dropped a 14,000 pound model of its Orion spacecraft into a big pool to make sure that it would hold up during a splashdown.
NASA

Watch as NASA Drops a Spacecraft Into a Huge Dunk Tank

There's a good reason, we promise.

By Dan Robitzski

On March 30 SpaceX's Starship SN11 prototype blew up in a massive cloud of orange light. Now, we get to rewatch the explosion in slow motion.
Starship

Starship Exploding in the Fog Looks Amazing in Slow Motion

A Starship explosion has never looked better.

By Victor Tangermann

Reports of mysterious swarms of drones hovering above US Navy ships in July 2019 have top military officials puzzled.
Drones

Navy Official: Mysterious Drones Are Also Swarming Other Countries’ Ships

The Navy still has no idea what they were or where they came from.

By Victor Tangermann

Multiple research teams are working toward a vaccine that protects against every coronavirus at once, including COVID-19 and the common cold.
Viruses

Scientists About to Start Testing a Universal Coronavirus Vaccine in Humans

It could work on SARS, COVID-19, and even the common cold.

By Dan Robitzski

New simulations show that a compact fusion reactor with compressed plasma would actually produce more electricity than it takes in.
Energy

Simulation Shows This Fusion Reactor Doing Something Amazing

Now scientists just need to make it a reality.

By Dan Robitzski

The "Xupermask," Will.i.am's collaboration with N95 face mask manufacturer Honeywell, is a mask that has more bells and whistles than sense.
SpaceX

This High Tech COVID Mask Was Designed by SpaceX’s Spacesuit Creator

It costs $299 and is basically a smartphone for your face.

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars helicopter dubbed Ingenuity is online and just snapped its first color photo over the weekend.
Mars

NASA’s Mars Helicopter Is Online and Just Sent Back a Photo

It won't win any awards for the image.

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook has been permitting the Chinese government to buy ads that deny it's committing acts of genocide against its Muslim Uyghur population.
Future Society

Facebook Lets Chinese Government Run Genocide-Denying Ads

For the second time, Facebook is tangled up in a genocide.

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover's Hazard Avoidance Camera picked up what appears to be a perfect rainbow above the Red Planet's arid surface.
Science & Energy

NASA Releases Breathtaking Rover Photo of “Rainbow” on Mars

Rainbows shouldn't exist on Mars.

By Victor Tangermann

In an email to Futurism, JPL media relations specialist Andrew Good confirmed that the "rainbow" spotted by Perseverance was the result of a lens flare.
Mars

NASA: That’s Not a Rainbow We Photographed on Mars

It's not what you might think.

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists says that robodogs could become a suitable, lower-cost replacement for biological seeing eye dogs for visually impaired people.
Robot Dogs

Scientists Want to Replace Seeing Eye Dogs With Robodogs

Service animals may become the next victims of workplace automation.

By Dan Robitzski