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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."

Medical historian John Barry says that the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic, especially due to President Trump, has been utterly incoherent.
Developments

Disease Historian: US COVID Response “Incomprehensibly Incoherent”

"The first few months it was hugely disappointing to see [Trump] trivialize this outbreak."

Stormy Weather May Delay SpaceX’s Historic Launch
SpaceX

Stormy Weather May Delay SpaceX’s Historic Launch

If the NASA x SpaceX launch is canceled, this is when it'll be rescheduled to.

Whenever a coronavirus vaccine becomes available to the public, only 49 percent of Americans responding to a poll said they'd actually get it.
Viruses

Only One in Two Americans Say They’d Take a COVID-19 Vaccine

This is dark.

"I'm the chief engineer of the thing," SpaceX CEO Elon Musk told CBS during a Tuesday interview. "Goes wrong, it's my fault."
Off-World

Elon Musk: “It’s My Fault” If Launch Goes Wrong

"There's thousands of things that can go wrong and only one thing that can go right."

Mission Control Is Socially Distancing During Today’s SpaceX Launch
SpaceX

Mission Control Is Socially Distancing During Today’s SpaceX Launch

"And here we are today, in an empty room, talking to cameras."

A cafe in Daejon, South Korea has hired a robot barista to take care of making and busing drinks around to avoid spreading the coronavirus.
Robotics

This Cafe Is Using a Robot Barista to Avoid Spreading COVID

The robot can make 60 different types of coffee and can deliver them to customers as well.

The Elon Musk-led spaceflight company is teasing newambitions — with a line on its site inviting questions about a "private passenger" program.
SpaceX

SpaceX Is Teasing Mysterious “Private Passenger” Spaceflights

"For inquiries about our private passenger program, contact..."

A team of researchers from Japan have created a "taste display" that's capable of producing any flavor for any tongue that's willing to lick its surface.
Devices

Scientists Say This Device Can Simulate Any Flavor

In the future, we could all be licking our smartphone screens.