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Claire "Grimes" Boucher, musician, avant-garde artist, and mother of Elon Musk's latest child, has decided to sell a percentage of her soul for $10 million.
Future Society

Grimes Is Auctioning Off a Fraction of Her Soul

The interesting part: she, and Elon Mushk, are preoccupied by technological immortality.

Scientists at the European Space Agency have created a tiny miniaturized ion thruster that's capable of keeping a satellite steady while in Earth's orbit.
Space

This Mini Ion Thruster Is Adorably Tiny

It may be small, but it's mighty enough to deorbit satellites.

A team of scientists think the interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua might actually be a hydrogen iceberg. The unusual idea could explain its stranger properties.
Science & Energy

Interstellar Visitor May Be One of Rarest Objects In Universe

The suggestion "explains every single mysterious thing about ‘Oumuamua."

A group of monkeys in India just stole a bunch of blood samples taken from patients who tested positive for the coronavirus.
Developments

Gang of Monkeys Steals COVID Blood Samples in India

As if 2020 couldn't get any worse.

Not everybody is happy with the glamorous, yet not-quite-catwalk-ready design of SpaceX's space suit, shown off at this Wednesday's launch attempt.
SpaceX

Fashion Magazine Roasts SpaceX’s Dorky Space Suit

"It looks like a half-finished Power Ranger."

OpenAI recently released Jukebox, and algorithm that can create original songs or mashup-hybrids in the style of over 9,000 artists. We kicked the tires.
Artificial Intelligence

Mind-Melting AI Makes Frank Sinatra Sing “Toxic” by Britney Spears

We gave these AI music experts an unusual request — and what they delivered will blow your mind.

One of the earliest examples of space travelers becoming ill was during the Apollo 7 mission in 1968, when astronaut Wally Schirra got a bad head cold.
Developments

When Astronauts Got Sick on an Apollo Mission, It Was a Disaster

A bad head cold led to mutiny during NASA's Apollo 7 mission.

Regularly hitting a vape can mess up your mouth's microbiome so much that harmful bacteria start producing a layer of slime.
RX and Medicine

Vaping Creates a “Slime Cloak” in Your Mouth, Scientists Say

"This is the fastest change [to the oral microbiome] to a human behavior that we have observed so far."

A smart ring can warn users that they've caught the coronavirus up to three days before they show symptoms, potentially keeping them from infecting others.
Prosthetics and Devices

Wearable Claims to Spot COVID Three Days Before Symptoms Appear

It could warn people to stay home before they infect anyone else.

At long last, scientists think they've accounted for the half of all the luminous matter in the universe that's been missing for decades.
Science & Energy

Half the Visible Universe Was Missing. Scientists Just Found It.

It's always the last place you look!

Scammers are capitalizing on people's baseless fears that 5G signals cause health problems by selling a cheap USB drive and claiming it protects people.
Science & Energy

These Scammers Are Selling a Nonsense Anti-5G Gadget

They're making bank on unfounded 5G paranoia.

Officials had to chase away a six foot alligator from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday.
NASA

NASA Had to Chase an Alligator Off the SpaceX Launchpad

"There are gators that end up in the craziest places."

China is planning to launch 11 missions before 2023 to construct an orbital, three-module space station.
Off-World

China’s Plans for “Heavenly Palace” Space Station Are Dazzling

They're already training astronauts for the ultra-ambitious orbital facility.

A new study on people taking psilocybin revealed the biological mechanisms responsible for feelings of bliss associated with the drug.
RX and Medicine

Neuroscientists: This Is How Shrooms Break Down Your Sense of Self

This could explain the difference between a good trip and a bad trip.

In order to train AI that understand the informal ways people actually type, mathematicians analyzed stretchable words like "duuuuude" and "noooo."
Artificial Intelligence

To Train Better AI, Scientists Are Studying Your Weird Tweets

Can AI understand that "dude" refers to a person while "duuuude" means "yikes"?

An international team of researchers was able to confirm the existence of Proxima b, an Earth-like planet that's orbiting the star closest to the Sun.
Science & Energy

New Research: Closest Exoplanet to Earth Could Host Life

"It's one of the most interesting planets known in the solar neighborhood."

Breaking: SpaceX Scrubs Historic Launch Due to Bad Weather
SpaceX

Breaking: SpaceX Scrubs Historic Launch Due to Bad Weather

Bad news, space fans!

A new system allows the interior cabin of Ford Police Interceptor Utility vehicles to literally bake at sweltering temperatures to neutralize any infected surfaces
Advanced Transport

Ford Software Update Lets Cop Cars Bake Away Coronavirus

That's one way to kill a virus.

A stunning new NASA animation shows how solar winds are interacting with Mars' magnetosphere to strip away the planet's atmosphere.
Science & Energy

This Video of Mars’ Leaking Atmosphere Could Make Elon Musk Cry

Mars may have been a lush, watery world — until it was stripped bare.

Watch the Astronauts Give Their Kids Virtual Hugs Before Launch
Off-World

Watch the Astronauts Give Their Kids Virtual Hugs Before Launch

"Well, I'm crying."