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Astrophysicist Ron Mallett believes he's figured out how to build a time machine that would allow someone to travel to the past.
Physics

But his peers are far from convinced that it'll work.

By Kristin Houser

The Food and Drug Administration announced a ban on most fruit and mint-flavored nicotine vaping products to reign in use by teenagers.
Developments

No more mango Juul pods.

By Victor Tangermann

NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine proposed to send Japanese astronauts to the Moon in the late 2020s as part of a joint plan with the US.
Moon

Will NASA return astronauts to the Moon by 2024 with Japan's help?

By Victor Tangermann

Tokyo's Penguin Café hosts a popular event for robot dogs and their owners, many of whom dress the bots up, and even celebrate their birthday at the cafe.
Robot Dogs

The events are so popular, the owner of the café has to turn people away.

By Kristin Houser

A team of UK researchers at Google Health and Google's AI lab DeepMind has created a tool that can successfully identify breast cancer in mammograms.
Cancer

Could this AI reduce our dependence on human radiologists?

By Victor Tangermann

Mysterious Swarms of Giant Drones Have Officials Baffled
Drones

No one is admitting to owning the fleet.

By Kristin Houser

Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua has confirmed that a third gene-edited baby has been born as part of researcher He Jiankui's controversial experiment.
Gene Editing

He Jiankui is headed to prison for creating three — not two — gene-edited babies.

By Kristin Houser

A Chinese court has sentenced researcher He Jiankui to three years in prison for creating the world's first gene-edited babies.
Gene Editing

He Jiankui will spend the next three years behind bars.

By Kristin Houser

A team of scientists detailed how 143 countries could transition to 100 percent clean energy by 2050 or possibly even sooner.
Energy

Their detailed plan gets 143 countries to 100 percent clean energy.

By Dan Robitzski

China successfully launched its largest and most powerful rocket, the Long March-5 Yaosan, after a 2017 attempt ended in failure.
Off-World

The same rocket will attempt to carry a rover to Mars next year.

By Victor Tangermann

Sightings of "strange lights" in the Montana night sky turned out to be SpaceX's Starlink satellites and not UFOs like locals thought.
SpaceX

Local news stations in Montana received reports of "strange lights."

By Victor Tangermann

Pentagon officials signed a memo earlier this week urging members of the military to stop using consumer DNA tests, calling them a security threat.
DNA

It thinks the tests could pose a risk to national security.

By Dan Robitzski

It's becoming increasingly likely that Japan's decision will be to dump the radioactive water stored at the Fukushima power plant into the ocean.
Environment

It has to dump the Fukushima water somewhere.

By Dan Robitzski

The Venezuelan government is now paying people to start using its official altcoin by airdropping crypto to public employees, retirees, and the military.
Cryptocurrency

They'll all get half a token of the state-backed petro if they sign up for a wallet.

By Dan Robitzski

Russian YouTubers have converted an old VAZ 2109 angular hatchback into a knockoff Tesla Cybertruck, stainless steel "exoskeleton" and all.
Advanced Transport

It's definitely not a Russian five-door hatchback from the '80s.

By Victor Tangermann

The radioactivity from a nuclear blast in space could disable crucial satellites, so the military is trying to find a way to scrub them clean.
Military

Radiation could disable satellites, so the military wants a way to scrub space clean.

By Dan Robitzski

In a year filled with technological breakthroughs of all stripes, military technology really pushed the limits of what we thought was possible this year.
Military

This year birthed some of the most mind-bending military tech we've ever seen.

By Kristin Houser

A team of physicists at Lancaster University have found that LEGO bricks are excellent insulators a couple of millidegrees above absolute zero.
Science & Energy

The bricks could replace the much more expensive materials currently used to build scientific equipment.

By Victor Tangermann

The last decade in mind-blowing space travel was the most important since the Apollo program was introduced. Here's the biggest space news of the decade.
Off-World

The last decade, more than nearly all before, changed our understanding of the cosmos, and ability to reach them. This was how it happened.

By Sarah Marquart

Russia says that it has an operational hypersonic weapon — the world's first — and plans to mount it on an intercontinental ballistic missile.
Future Society

The new class of nuke can travel 27 times the speed of sound.

By Dan Robitzski