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Video footage of GM's driverless cars shows some troubling behavior as well as multiple near-accidents on public streets.
Advanced Transport

Videos of GM’s Driverless Cars Show Several Near-Crashes

They're months old, but it's troubling to see this on public streets.

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers at MIT have created an AI that is capable of automatically deciphering long lost languages.
Artificial Intelligence

MIT Invents AI to Decipher Ancient Languages

Countless languages haven't been spoken in millennia, but AI could uncover their mysteries.

By Victor Tangermann

A scientist who won an Ig Nobel for his work on vibrating earthworms with a speaker say their research may be the key to brain-computer interface.
Science & Energy

Scientist: Please Stop Laughing at My Research About Placing Earthworms on Loudspeakers

Hear him out!

By Dan Robitzski

In a world's first, a team of scientists at Purdue University has built a tiny flipping microrobot that can be operated inside a colon of a living animal.
Robotics

Scientists Drive Tiny Robot Around Inside Living Butthole

Its inventors say that a living colon is "rough terrain."

By Victor Tangermann

Dr. Eric Topol says that, based on existing numbers, the odds of catching COVID-19 a second time after recovering are about one in a million.
Developments

Famous Doctor: COVID-19 Reinfection Rates Are Actually “Very Reassuring”

"There may be more but [reinfection] appears to be exceedingly rare to date, like ~1 in a million."

By Dan Robitzski

A placebo-controlled study identified which impacts of microdosing LSD, from improved focus to anxiety, emerge at which dosages.
RX and Medicine

Study: Microdosing LSD Improves Mood and Cognition

Here are the doses they tried.

By Dan Robitzski

General Motors has finally revealed its fully electrified take on the long-retired-but-not-forgotten Hummer brand, the Hummer EV.
Advanced Transport

The All-Electric Hummer Can Turn All Four Wheels and Drive Sideways

Is this the Cybertruck killer we've been waiting for?

By Victor Tangermann

The engineers behind the YouTube "the Hacksmith" have crafted a real-world "Star Wars"-style lightsaber that burns hot enough to cut through steel.
Robots and Machines

Engineers Create Plasma-Powered Lightsaber That Can Cut Metal

An elegant weapon, for a more civilized age.

By Victor Tangermann

For the first time, scientists build a superconducting material that works at room temperature, albeit under extremely high pressures.
Science & Energy

Scientists Finally Built a Room-Temperature Superconductor

The scientist behind it says to get ready for a "society where you'll never need things like batteries again."

By Dan Robitzski

A team of German physicists managed to pack up light — and unpack it 1.2 millimeters away without altering it in the process.
Quantum Physics

Physicists Just Stored and Transported Light Itself

"We stored the light by putting it in a suitcase so to speak, only that in our case the suitcase was made of a cloud of cold atoms."

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk announced on Twitter today that the Tesla Model S "Long Range" sedan is getting a price cut to $69,420, just undercutting competitor Lucid.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Slashes Tesla Model S Price to $69,420

Nice.

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX just partnered with the U.S. military to build a rocket that could ship weapons anywhere in the world in one hour.
Military

SpaceX Is Building a Military Rocket to Ship Weapons Anywhere in the World

SpaceX is promising the Pentagon one-hour weapon delivery around the globe.

By Dan Robitzski

For its first time, NASA has successfully collected samples from the surface of an asteroid using the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on Tuesday.
NASA

For the First Time In Its History, NASA Successfully Collects Sample From Asteroid

"We did it."

By Victor Tangermann

The International Space Station crew had a rough night. The same day they finally found an air leak, an oxygen system, toilet, and oven all broke down.
Off-World

The Space Station’s Toilet, Oven, and Air Supply All Broke Last Night

If you thought getting your landlord to fix something was hard down on Earth...

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX's latest Starship prototype called SN8 completed a "static fire" test of its three Raptor engines early this morning.
Starship

SpaceX Starship Prototype Fires Up Its 3 Engines Ahead of Flight to 12 Miles

Elon Musk's Starship is finally taking shape.

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists are certain that the U.S. COVID-19 death toll is well over 200,000 lives. Conspiracy theories attempting to minimize deaths are easily debunked.
Developments

Scientists: Yes, the COVID-19 Death Toll Is Really That High

The attempts to minimize the pandemic's impact don't hold water at all.

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is about to send its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft down to the surface of Bennu, a small near-Earth asteroid about 500 meters across, to scoop up a sample.
Science & Energy

Here’s How to Watch as NASA Attempts to Grab a Sample From an Asteroid

The wait is finally over.

By Victor Tangermann

Call center contractors for Amazon's Ring say they're forced to work in an unsanitary office where dozens have gotten sick.
Future Society

Amazon Contractors Forced to Work in Office With Sick Coworkers

They say things are getting worse.

By Dan Robitzski

The China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation just laid our its five year plan to commercialize space, including plans for a spaceplane.
Off-World

China Says It’ll Fly Astronauts to Orbit in New Spaceplane

The plane will reportedly be capable of horizontal takeoff and landing.

By Victor Tangermann

The Justice Department just filed an antitrust case against Google that's the largest the company has had to face so far.
Future Society

Justice Department Nails Google with Massive Antitrust Case

Get ready for a huge legal battle.

By Dan Robitzski