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Russia is launching a center devoted to monitoring meteors, comets, and asteroids to ensure they don't collide with Earth.
Science & Energy

To thwart incoming asteroids, Russia is considering everything from rockets to solar sails.

By Kristin Houser

Chinese company Futurus's new heads-up display screen for cars takes advantage of the entire windshield and not just a small part of it.
Advanced Transport

What could possibly go wrong?

By Kristin Houser

For the last six months, a highly-automated dairy farm has been floating off the coast of the Netherlands, providing city slickers with fresh milk.
Future Society

"The entire process is completely automated."

By Dan Robitzski

In a filing with the California Air Resources Board, Tesla said Cybertruck will be a “Class 2B-3” medium-duty vehicle, rated for a payload of 3,500 pounds.
Tesla

The Cybertruck could weigh as much as an elephant.

By Victor Tangermann

A true mad scientist bred 97 different kinds of broccoli and mapped their DNA. The verdict? all of them were "delicious."
Biology

Tag yourself, I'm the nightmare vegetable.

By Dan Robitzski

A pair of physicists have come up with a solution to the time travel paradox that requires a very large — but not infinite — number of parallel histories.
Physics

Would you step through a wormhole to a different timeline to kill Hitler?

By Victor Tangermann

Following a bone marrow transplant, a man's semen now contains only his donor's DNA — a strange case that could affect the future of forensic science.
Gene Editing

His strange situation could affect the future of forensic science.

By Kristin Houser

Twelve former content moderators have filed a lawsuit against Facebook and a contracting firm alleging that the work caused psychological trauma.
Future Society

"You would wake up, and you’re remembering the video of someone machine-gunning people in the Middle East somewhere..."

By Kristin Houser

A new deepfake shows Trump announcing to the world that Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself. And the technology is getting good enough to be convincing.
Artificial Intelligence

"Jeffrey Epstein did not kill himself."

By Dan Robitzski

A new study reveals that extreme weather events have been linked, almost without fail, to the worsening effects of climate change.
Climate Change

The link between the climate and worsening weather is growing clearer.

By Dan Robitzski

A viral video uploaded on Wednesday by college student Erica Church shows her physics professor David Wright jovially pull off some amazing tricks in class.
Future Society

Oh, and he's 69 years old.

By Victor Tangermann

Larry Page, Google co-founder and former CEO, has been quietly funneling millions of dollars into charities that fund flu vaccine research and distribution.
Google

Larry Page is funding research toward a universal vaccine.

By Dan Robitzski

Geneticist George Church created an FAQ for his in-development DNA dating app to address comparisons to the notorious eugenics movement.
Future Society

"The point is to improve carefully vetted options rather than ideological coercion."

By Kristin Houser

NASA researchers have created a "treasure map" detailing where they believe water ice exists just below the surface of Mars.
Mars

"You wouldn't need a backhoe to dig up this ice. You could use a shovel."

By Kristin Houser

New radar maps and digital models reveal a massive underground valley beneath Greenland, including a thousand-mile-long "Dark River."
Science & Energy

New maps reveal a vast underground river.

By Dan Robitzski

The rats that survive eradication attempts could have sickly offspring — or they could produce "super rats" that are even harder to kill.
Evolution

And we don't know if their offspring will be sickly or "super."

By Kristin Houser

Turkey's military expects to have its hands on the first Songars, a drone equipped with a machine gun, before the end of 2019.
Drones

It can hit a human with every bullet from 200 meters away.

By Kristin Houser

Tesla's general counsel, Jonathan Chang, left the company last week. That makes three lawyers and 16 executives to leave Tesla this year.
Tesla

This was the third one they lost in 2019.

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers were able to easily fool facial recognition systems at a variety of places, including banks, border crossings, and airports using a mask.
Facial recognition

This mask defeated facial recognition systems at border crossings, airports, and banks.

By Victor Tangermann

Creeps have used Ring cameras to hack into customers' homes, using the internet-connected cameras to spy on and harass families and children.
Hacking

There were four cases of hacked Ring harassment this week alone.

By Dan Robitzski