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The wealthy are offering up tens of thousands of dollars to jump the line and get their COVID-19 vaccine early, the LA Times reports.
Viruses

The Rich Are Trying to Skip the Line to Get Vaccinated

Celebrities are offering up wads of cash for the coveted injection.

By Victor Tangermann

A massive hack on U.S. infrastructure and federal agencies, likely perpetrated by Russia, targeted nuclear weapon facilities.
Science & Energy

Hackers Reportedly Targeted US Nuclear Weapons Facilities

The nuclear stockpile itself remained secure, officials insist.

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers claim to have achieved sustained, long-distance quantum teleportation for the first time, setting the stage for a quantum internet.
Quantum Physics

Researchers Achieve First “Sustained” Long Distance Quantum Teleportation

The quantum internet just became a lot more real.

By Victor Tangermann

COVID-19 is on track to become the leading cause of death in the U.S., beating the daily death tolls for cancer and heart disease combined.
Viruses

Daily Coronavirus Deaths Top Heart Disease and Cancer Combined

"The current exponential increase in COVID-19 is reaching a calamitous scale in the U.S."

By Dan Robitzski

David Attenborough's narration taken from the BBC's "Planet Earth" docu-series fits perfectly over this clip of SpaceX's recent Starship test flight.
Starship

David Attenborough Narrates Starship Launch In Hilarious Video

"This is as good a descent as it's possible to make."

By Victor Tangermann

NASA announced that Reid Wiseman would be its 17th Chief Astronaut. He previously logged lots of time in space and served as deputy Chief Astronaut.
NASA

NASA Names Its New Chief Astronaut

There's a new boss in town.

By Dan Robitzski

Once the FDA approved a coronavirus vaccine, almost-certainly-fake listings for vaccines on the black market vastly increased in number.
Viruses

FDA Vaccine Approval Created a Spike in Black Market Listings

Before you get any big ideas, they're almost certainly fake.

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter this week to slander those who list the pronouns they prefer others to use to describe them in their social media bios.
Elon Musk

LBGTQ Group Denounces Elon Musk For Mocking Gender Pronouns

"Elon Musk’s tweet mocking pronouns is exactly the opposite of what inclusive leadership looks like today."

By Victor Tangermann

Fume events, or instances where dangerous chemicals make it into an airplane's air supply, are disturbingly common. Yet the problem is often ignored.
Advanced Transport

Faulty Planes Reportedly Poisoned Passengers on Hundreds of Flights

Air on hundreds of flights was apparently poisoned, and the problem swept under the rug.

By Dan Robitzski

biosignature
Exobiology

A Very Strange Radio Signal Is Coming From the Closest Star

"It is the first serious candidate [for an alien technosignature] since the 'Wow! signal.'"

By Jon Christian

A satellite company called Capella Space just launched its platform for SAR imaging satellites that can peer through clouds and even some buildings.
Off-World

A New Satellite Can Peer Inside Some Buildings, Day or Night

But don't worry — the company says it can't see inside your home.

By Dan Robitzski

The team in charge of recovering China's successfully returned lunar samples in Inner Mongolia wore exoskeletons to help them trudge through the snow.
Moon

China Used Exoskeletons to Recover Moon Samples

Recovery teams used exoskeletons to trudge through deep snow to get to the capsule.

By Victor Tangermann

Mattel has just announced its delaying the delivery of its Hot Wheels remote-controlled Cybertrucks, as Bloomberg reports.
Advanced Transport

Toy Cybertrucks Will Be Delivered Too Late For Christmas

First the pandemic, now this.

By Victor Tangermann

In an interview, John Brenann, ex-CIA officer who served under Obama for four years, said that we shouldn't disregard videos of recent UFO sightings.
Future Society

Former CIA Director Says UFO Videos Are “Quite Eyebrow-Raising”

"I think it's a bit presumptuous and arrogant for us to believe that there's no other form of life anywhere in the entire universe."

By Victor Tangermann

President-elect Joe Biden reportedly plans to nominate Michael Regan as head of the Environmental Protection Agency. It would be his third time at the EPA.
Environment

Biden’s EPA Pick Seems to Actually Care About the Environment

What a refreshing change.

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers have spotted a distant galaxy without its accompanying supermassive black hole — despite its enormous suspected mass.
Science & Energy

A Supermassive Black Hole Is Missing, NASA Says

It's gotta be here somewhere!

By Victor Tangermann

According to US Space Command (USSC) officials, Russia has launched a new anti-satellite missile test, the third one this year alone.
Space Force

Space Force Claims That Russia Just Tested an Anti-Satellite Missile

Anti-satellite warfare could get seriously messy, with a cascading debris cloud that makes orbit a deadly place.

By Victor Tangermann

Ian McKellen says he feels "euphoric" after getting a COVID-19 vaccine, and he urges everyone who can to get vaccinated as well.
Viruses

Ian McKellen Says He Feels “Euphoric” After Taking COVID Vaccine

Magneto has officially taken the vaccine.

By Dan Robitzski

In a matter of just two to three years, electric cars are set to become cheaper than their gasoline-powered alternatives according to a new report.
Advanced Transport

Report: Electric Cars Could Be Cheaper Than Gas Ones in Just 2 Years

Electric vehicles are about to get a lot cheaper.

By Victor Tangermann

In exchange for technical support from Canada, NASA will fly a Canadian astronaut to lunar orbit, making them the first non-American to reach the Moon.
Moon

NASA Says It Will Fly a Canadian to the Moon

"This will make Canada only the second country after the U.S. to have an astronaut in deep space."

By Dan Robitzski