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Starting in January, Boeing will halt production on its 737 MAX passenger jets, two of which recently crashed, killing everyone on board.
Advanced Transport

It'll stop manufacturing the controversial planes in January.

By Kristin Houser

Thousands of engineers have been designing and working on a gigantic intergovernmental radio telescope network called the Square Kilometer Array (SKA).
Science & Energy

3,000 dishes will span eight African countries.

By Victor Tangermann

A car in the U.K. exploded because its driver sprayed an "excessive" amount of flammable air freshener in the vehicle and then lit a cigarette.
Advanced Transport

Everything was going fine until he lit up a cigarette.

By Kristin Houser

The families of children who died or were maimed in cobalt mines are suing Apple, Tesla, and other tech giants for allegedly knowing about the child labor.
Future Society

They're suing Apple, Microsoft, Dell, Alphabet, and Tesla for "extreme abuse of innocent children on a large scale."

By Kristin Houser

New Orleans is the latest city to be targeted by ransomware hackers, but after a weekend-long emergency response, it seems to be back to normal.
Hacking

So far, it seems like the city escaped unscathed.

By Dan Robitzski

A proposed NASA space telescope called HabEx would use a gigantic sail to filter out the light from distant stars while hunting new exiplanets.
Science & Energy

The Habitable Exoplanet Observatory would probe deep space for a new home.

By Dan Robitzski

The ESA is launching a space telescope called CHEOPS (Characterising Exoplanets Satellite) on Tuesday to study distant planets.
Science & Energy

The ESA's brand new space telescope is an expert at spotting planets just like our own.

By Victor Tangermann

A driver used his Tesla dashcam footage to prove a police officer was wrong in issuing him a ticket for failure to signal at an intersection.
Tesla

With the push of a button, a Model 3 owner saved $171.

By Kristin Houser

A new survey of the center of the Milky Way challenges what astronomers have long thought about how stars formed in the region.
Science & Energy

A new picture from the Very Large Telescope rewrites our cosmic origin story.

By Dan Robitzski

A hundred lights that have appeared and disappeared in the night sky over the past 70 years could be signs of the existence of aliens.
Physics

The team behind the project isn't ruling it out.

By Kristin Houser

Ad Astra CEO and former NASA astronaut Franklin Chang Diaz is building a plasma rocket engine that he thinks is our best bet to send people to Mars.
Mars

He called regular, SpaceX-style rockets "primitive."

By Dan Robitzski

A team of legal representatives of those whose money disappeared with bitcoin CEO Gerald Cotten's death have sent a letter seeking an exhumation.
Bitcoin

Lawyers are calling for "certainty around the question of whether Mr Cotten is in fact deceased."

By Victor Tangermann

A new study has uncovered 109 genetic variants linked to more than one psychiatric disorder, a discovery that could help identify future treatments.
Health & Medicine

The biological causes of mental health issues are starting to become clear.

By Kristin Houser

Apple's employee wellness program includes free DNA tests through Color, which can scan for things like cancer and heart disease.
DNA

Proactive healthcare is nice, but this gives the company unprecedented access to employees' lives.

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists just spotted MAMBO-9. The ancient galaxy's light just reached Earth after a 13 billion year-long journey through space.
Science & Energy

MAMBO-9 is a mind-bending 13 billion lightyears away.

By Dan Robitzski

Watch YouTubers Build a Functional Half-Scale Cybertruck, Because Why Not?
Advanced Transport

This Cybertruck will definitely fit into your garage.

By Victor Tangermann

For the first time, NASA built a complete map of the surface of a neutron star, giving astronomers a new resource as they try to understand the cosmos.
Science & Energy

NASA managed to map a neutron star's surface for the first time.

By Dan Robitzski

Nonprofit New Story has unveiled the first 3D-printed houses in what will eventually be a community boasting 50 of the unique homes.
3D Printing

Each took just 24 hours to build using a massive 3D printer.

By Kristin Houser

The Milky Way might be home to two black holes and not just one — and researchers have a plan for detecting Sagittarius A*'s "hidden friend."
Science & Energy

And scientists think they know how to find out for sure.

By Kristin Houser

The AI research firm AI Now called for the ban of untested and biased technologies like facial recognition and emotion-detecting algorithms.
Facial recognition

Researchers: the tech "should not be allowed to play a role in important decisions about human lives."

By Dan Robitzski