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MIT released a massive report about the university's ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Along with publishing the report, MIT also suspended engineer Seth Lloyd.
Future Society

Engineering professor Seth Lloyd hid that Epstein gave him nearly $300,000.

By Dan Robitzski

Four newly-discovered sharks use their fins to crawl across coral reefs — and can also walk across short stretches of dry land.
Biology

They're evolving!

By Dan Robitzski

The mysterious Chinese pneumonia-like coronavirus that originated from Wuhan, China, has officially reached the US, with one confirmed case in Washington.
Developments

This is bad. Officials just confirmed the first case in North America.

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese officials confirmed that the pneumonia-like virus that first emerged at a Wuhan seafood market can be transmitted from person-to-person.
Developments

Hundreds are infected — including medical workers.

By Dan Robitzski

A genetic analysis of the virus behind the Chinese pandemic reveals that it likely originated from a snake at Wuhan's seafood market.
Viruses

Researchers have uncovered a crucial detail about the viral pandemic.

By Dan Robitzski

British researchers have discovered a new type of T-cell that kills at least 10 types of cancers, all while ignoring healthy cells.
Cancer

"Previously nobody believed this could be possible."

By Kristin Houser

Climatologist Alan Robock from Rutgers University and his team studied what an all-out nuclear war between world nations could look like.
Nuclear Fusion

Things would be bad inside the blast radius — and everyone else would envy the dead.

By Victor Tangermann

Monkeys zapped with electrodes woke up from being put under, and while it's a ways off from human use, this dream could be a waking reality soon.
Future Society

A dream of medicine could one day be a waking reality.

By Foster Kamer

Harvard Prof: Deep Space Signal May Be From Alien Civilization
Science & Energy

The mysterious signal is repeating every 16 days. A Harvard researcher says it could be of "artificial origin."

By Jon Christian

For some unknown reason, people who were born blind don't develop schizophrenia, and scientists have differing ideas as to why.
Health & Medicine

Scientists have some guesses, but a full explanation eludes them.

By Dan Robitzski

According to a study published earlier this month in journal Genome Biology and Evolution, woolly mammoth genes had many bad mutations from inbreeding.
Science & Energy

Great lesson in taking inbreeders to tusk.

By Foster Kamer

A Dutch robot named MUSA has successfully performed supermicrosurgery on a human for the first time, which only a handful of doctors worldwide can do.
Health & Medicine

The cuts in question were under a millimeter.

By Foster Kamer

Lexus president Koji Sato says the company will unveil it's Autopilot-like assisted driving technology, Highway Teammate, which enables hands-free driving.
Advanced Transport

The company's president calls it "hands-off but not eyes-off."

By Dan Robitzski

The Mars Society, a space advocacy group, is holding a contest for the best designs of a Martian city state that can accommodate one million inhabitants.
Future Society

What will a Martian city of 1,000,000 people look like?

By Victor Tangermann

Newly released documents suggest that there are serious safety flaws in the Tesla Autopilot system, which was activated during a fatal crash.
Tesla

"The family explained that it happened so often that he had told both his brother and his wife about the problem."

By Dan Robitzski

Biologists across the world are already printing synthetic copies of the genetic code of the deadly COVID-19 virus, The Verge reports.
Gene Editing

"I think one thing people should remember is that nature is the biggest bioterrorist."

By Jon Christian

Apply now! NASA is officially accepting astronaut applications for its next generation of astronauts that could one day travel to the Moon and Mars.
Moon

"It’s an incredible time in human spaceflight to be an astronaut."

By Victor Tangermann

William Gerstenmaier, who served as the chief of NASA’s human spaceflight program for 14 years, has found himself new gig: working at SpaceX.
NASA

A former big fish at NASA is now swimming in SpaceX's pond.

By Kristin Houser

NASA will need $35 billion over the next four years to successfully complete the Artemis Moon mission, according to Human Spaceflight Chief Doug Loverro.
Moon

And that money will be on top of NASA's current budget.

By Kristin Houser

What’s The Highest Known Temperature?
Physics

Enter the world of extreme physics.

By Jolene Creighton