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Science & Energy

Astronomers Baffled by Mysterious Ring-Shaped Objects in Deep Space

They're unlike anything astronomers have ever observed before.

Starship

SpaceX Is Planning Starship’s First Test Flight for Next Week

SpaceX is eager to get its rocket monstrosity off the ground.

Science & Energy

NASA Pumps Funding Into Startup That Says It Can Harvest Oxygen From Lunar Regolith

Pioneer Astronautics has a plan to generate oxygen from the Moon's dusty surface.

Elon Musk

Elon Musk Brags That Tesla Is “Very Close” to Full, Level 5 Self Driving

"I'm extremely confident that level 5 or essentially complete autonomy will happen and I think will happen very quickly."

Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s Boring Company Announces Tunnel-Digging Contest

How fast can you dig a hole?

Mars

Crap: NASA’s Mars “Mole” Finally Started Digging, Then Hit Another Obstacle

Who knew that digging into Mars was this difficult?

Future Society

To Fight COVID, Japanese Theme Parks Forbid Screaming on Roller Coasters

"Please scream inside your heart."

Future Society

Watch a Tech CEO Melt Down in a Racist Tirade

He apologized, but the family he screamed at isn't buying it.

Science & Energy

US Investigating “Breach” at Nuclear Weapons Facility

More than a dozen workers were potentially exposed to plutonium.

Boeing

Official Report: Boeing’s Spaceship Still Really, Really Sucks

Can't Boeing just, you know, be more like SpaceX?

Moon

China Finally Figured Out What That Weird “Gel-Like” Substance from the Far Side of the Moon Was

Drum roll please!

Future Society

Hong Kong Is Already Being Censored by China’s “Great Firewall”

And China is probably about to censor Google, Twitter and Facebook.

Moon

Congress Budget Denies NASA Full Funding for Moon Missions

Did Congress just kill NASA's ambitions to return humans to the Moon by 2024?

Nuclear Fusion

This Luxury Nuclear Apocalypse Bunker Has a Swimming Pool, Movie Theater and Sauna

Waiting out a nuclear winter sounds like a lot more fun with access to a waterslide and bar.

DNA

Scientists Speak Out Against China’s GATTACA-esque DNA Collection

"You can think of nasty uses if you are creative."

Mars

Scientists: Flying By Venus to Get to Mars Would Be Cheaper, Faster

"There's science at two planets for much less than the price of two separate crewed missions."

Mars

Three Separate Countries Are Launching Mars Missions This Month

The interplanetary gulf is particularly easy to cross at the moment.

Future Society

South Korea Encourages Mask Wearing With Massive Drone-Powered Light Show

"Cheer up, Republic of Korea."

Science & Energy

NASA Discovers Huge Potential Caches of Metal On the Moon

"Imagine taking a pile of metal five times larger than the Big Island of Hawaii and burying it underground."

Developments

Experts Confirm Outbreaks of Black Death, Brain-Eating Amoeba

A stark reminder that the year 2020 is far from over.