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Machine Learning

The Pandemic Has Seriously Confused Machine Learning Systems

"You're trying to optimize for toilet paper, … this week everyone wants to buy puzzles or gym equipment."

Space

Scientists Find New Evidence Europa Is Shooting Water Into Space

What is Jupiter's smallest moon hiding below its thick icy shell?

Developments

Researchers: Working Just 8 Days Per Month Could Help Fight COVID

Working for four days — and then staying at home for ten — could bring down infections.

International Space Station

Dock a SpaceX Spacecraft to the ISS in This Amazing Simulator

SpaceX just released a videogame. Can you beat it?

Mars

Scientists Say They’ve Found the Perfect Spot for a Mars Colony

There's just one catch.

Science & Energy

NASA Is Setting a Fire Inside a Spaceship

It's for science, okay?

DARPA

DARPA Is About to Launch a Military Version of SpaceX’s Starlink

The first satellite of the Blackjack network is launching later this year.

Developments

CityMD Wrongly Told 15,000 Patients They Were Immune to COVID-19

It apologized and is now letting all patients know about the mistake.

Developments

After Six New Cases, Wuhan Plans to Test All 11 Million Residents

The scale of the operation is staggering.

Tesla

Defying Shelter-in-Place, Tesla Is Building New Cars Today

"Tesla is filing a lawsuit against Alameda County immediately."

Viruses

There’s a Resurgence of Coronavirus Cases in China

"It's not over until it's over."

Science & Energy

NASA Wants to Chase Interstellar Objects With “Orbital Slingshot”

An MIT plan would fling spacecraft toward interstellar visitors — before they careen out of our star system forever.

Physics

Scientists Are Killing Off Virtual Stars to Study Black Holes

They're simulating the most violent star deaths imaginable, for science.

Off-World

Russian Rocket Disintegrates in Space, Leaving Orbital Debris

The US Air Force is now tracking 65 associated pieces in orbit.

RX and Medicine

Darknet Marketplaces Are Full of COVID-19 Tests and Medicine

Online sellers are hoarding hydroxychloroquine, remdesivir, and coronavirus tests — and selling them alongside meth and heroin.

Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says He’ll Be Working on the Tesla Assembly Line Today

"I will be on the line personally helping wherever I can."

Science & Energy

Amazing Image of Jupiter Looks Like It’s Burning

This is one of the sharpest images of Jupiter in history.

Science & Energy

A Black Hole May Be Orbiting Our Sun. This Guy Wants to Find It.

If the mysterious "Planet Nine" is actually a black hole, this physicist has a plan to find it.

Energy

Physicists Discover New Trick to Stabilize Fusion Reactors

Fusion reactors are extremely difficult to control. This could be the answer.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Solve “X-Galaxy” Mystery With Powerful New Telescope

These radio wave jets can extend millions of light-years into space.