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A special adviser to the director-general of the WHO roasted U.S. President Donald Trump's response to the global coronavirus outbreak.
Viruses

WHO Special Adviser: Trump’s Coronavirus Remarks Were “Incoherent”

"He just revealed how ignorant he is about the situation."

By Jon Christian

YouTubers behind the account "The Hacksmith" have built a half-scale Cybertruck that is so powerful, it can win against a Ford F150 in a tug of war.
Advanced Transport

Watch a Half-Scale Cybertruck Beat a Ford F-150 in a Tug of War

Is it a fair fight? No. Is it fun to watch? Yes.

By Victor Tangermann

Republican and Democrat lawmakers seem to be in agreement that the Trump administration hasn't put nearly enough effort into a coronavirus response plan.
Viruses

Trump’s Grasp of the Coronavirus Outbreak Seems Weak

Wait, what? Trump claimed that the virus "miraculously goes away" in warmer weather.

By Dan Robitzski

A Facebook post by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine shows a research station in antarctica covered in "raspberry snow."
Science & Energy

Bright-Red “Blood Snow” Is Falling From the Sky in Antarctica

These strange algae blooms could end up contributing to climate change.

By Victor Tangermann

Overwhelmed and overworked nurses in Wuhan, China, the city where the coronavirus outbreak began, published a cry for help from the rest of the world.
Developments

In Open Letter, Wuhan Nurses Cry for Global Help [UPDATED]

"Like everyone else, we feel helplessness, anxiety, and fear."

By Dan Robitzski

The Lancet just retracted a passionate call for help from two Chinese nurses claiming to fight the coronavirus in Wuhan after learning they originally lied.
Developments

Chinese Nurses Retract Plea for Aid in Prestigious Medical Journal

The journal now says the authors lied, claiming to witness horrifying scenes in understaffed hospitals firsthand.

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, scientists identified a protein molecule in a meteorite. And they say they that it didn't come from Earth.
Chemistry

Scientists Discover Protein in a Meteorite

And they're confident it didn't come from Earth.

By Dan Robitzski

A mysterious video that claimed China would be sending 100,000 ducks to Pakistan to help deal with a locust invasion went viral on Chinese social media.
Science & Energy

Expert: China is Not Deploying Duck Army to Devour Locusts

Sorry, duck fans.

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have started analyzing data collected by China's Yutu-2 Moon rover's ground-penetrating radar. They found mostly Moon dust.
Science & Energy

Chinese Rover Discovers It’s Sitting on 39 Feet of Moon Dust

"That’s a lot of regolith."

By Victor Tangermann

A group of scientists say their new research shows that contagious diseases like the coronavirus spread like viral videos and other internet memes.
Viruses

New Research: Contagious Diseases Spread a Lot Like Memes

Scientists warn that the coronavirus may be spreading like a viral video.

By Jon Christian

A team of astronomers determined that an exoplanet called K2-18b is capable of holding liquid water at habitable conditions.
Science & Energy

Astronomers Conclude Massive Exoplanet Could Host Life

This super-Earth could feature a habitable ocean world beneath a thick layer of hydrogen gas.

By Victor Tangermann

According to a high-ranking organizer, it's possible the Summer Olympics in Tokyo will be canceled due to the international coronavirus outbreak.
Viruses

The Tokyo Olympics May Be Canceled Due to Coronavirus Outbreak

Would they really cancel the entire Olympics?

By Jon Christian

NASA has learned that Boeing did not perform a "full, end-to-end integrated test" of its astronaut-ferrying Starliner spacecraft with the Atlas V rocket.
Boeing

NASA: Boeing Skipped Crucial Software Test of Starliner Spacecraft

The lack of a critical end-to-end test caught NASA's safety panel off guard.

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists built a neural net that connected artificial brain cells to living biological ones, which signalled back and forth over the internet.
Neuroscience and Brain

Artificial and Biological Neurons Just Talked Over the Internet

An international neural net remotely connected real and artificial brain cells.

By Dan Robitzski

Northrop Grumman's "Mission Extension Vehicle-1" (MEV-1) docks with a Inteslat 901, a communication satellite that's been in orbit for a lengthy 18 years.
Off-World

World’s First: Spacecraft Docks to Commercial Satellite In Orbit

This 18-year-old communications satellite just got a new lease on life.

By Victor Tangermann

A team of astronomers at the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey suspect there's a small asteroid that caught itself in our planet's gravity, like a moon.
Science & Energy

Astronomers: Our Planet Might Have Another Moon, Except It’s Tiny

Okay, we'll admit that it's a bit smaller than the regular Moon.

By Victor Tangermann

Juul is pitching a Bluetooth-enabled vape that won't let you puff until you've connected it to an app and uploaded a government-issued ID.
Prosthetics and Devices

Juul Wants to Age-Lock Its Vapes

This sounds like a terrible episode of "Black Mirror."

By Jon Christian

U.S. President Donald Trump appeared to confuse the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 with Ebola, a completely separate deadly disease.
Viruses

Trump Appears to Confuse Coronavirus With Ebola

Then he accidentally spelled it "caronavirus."

By Jon Christian

Special modified human stem cells were able to control blood sugar levels in a demonstration involving diabetic mice by secreting insulin.
Studies

Diabetic Mice “Cured Rapidly” Using Human Stem Cells

These insulin-secreting cells cured mice from severe diabetes "within two weeks."

By Victor Tangermann

On Monday, the Pentagon announced the official adoption of a series of new principles for ethical use of artificial intelligence in warfare, the AP reports.
Ethics

These Are the Pentagon’s New Ethics “Principles” for AI in Warfare

Skynet, here we come.

By Foster Kamer