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The Centers for Disease Control has released a list of vaping brands EVALI sufferers said they used prior to contracting the lung disease.
Chemistry

EVALI sufferers used one brand far more than any other.

By Kristin Houser

Scientists have a new guess for what triggers white dwarf stars to blow up in supernovae: tiny black holes made of dark matter growing in their cores.
Science & Energy

The triggers build up at the star's core before exploding.

By Dan Robitzski

A woman developed a rare disease called "cobalt lung" after vaping marijuana for just six months, according to a new case study.
Chemistry

"This is the first known case of a metal-induced toxicity in the lung that has followed from vaping."

By Kristin Houser

Oregon startup Silo Wellness created a nasal spray that delivers precise amounts of the magic mushroom compound psilocybin with each pump for microdosing.
Chemistry

"Legalization is inevitable."

By Kristin Houser

Scientists found that a single-celled organism could live off of materials from meteorites, which could help in our hunt to find alien life in space.
Science & Energy

It could help us identify the "fingerprints" of life on other planets.

By Kristin Houser

Elon Musk spent $100 million to buy seven homes in Los Angeles' pricey Bel-Air neighborhood in recent years, along with an estate near Tesla's HQ upstate.
Elon Musk

One neighbor thinks he's trying to connect them with an underground tunnel.

By Dan Robitzski

Over the last two years, almost 6,000 Uber passengers reported sexual assault. While the company has taken steps to stop it, it also downplays the problem.
Future Society

The ride-sharing company has a miserable year in review.

By Dan Robitzski

According to a New Scientist exclusive, the first ever pig that had a small proportion of Its cells derived from a monkey was born in a lab in China.
Developments

The goal is to grow human organs inside animals.

By Victor Tangermann

For the first time ever, scientists have discovered a giant exoplanet orbiting a white dwarf — the extremely dense remains of an exploded dead star.
Science & Energy

"Such a system has never been seen before."

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists observed surprisingly complex behavior from a single-celled organism that strongly resembles active decisionmaking.
Biology

The tiny critter appears to be making complex decisions.

By Dan Robitzski

SoftBank Robotics has opened the Pepper PARLOR, a cafe where robots work alongside human staff to serve and entertain customers.
Robotics

Bots take customers' orders, provide entertainment, and even clean the cafe's floors.

By Kristin Houser

British clothing design firm Vollebak devised a futuristic hoodie that could help astronauts sleep while drifting through space inside a cramped spacecraft.
Space

The cocoon-like design was inspired by the protective exoskeleton of the woodlouse.

By Victor Tangermann

Niantic, the company behind Pokémon Go, announced that it partnered up with Qualcomm to develop new augmented reality (AR) glasses.
Virtual Reality

Niantic is collaborating with Qualcomm on a new augmented reality wearable.

By Dan Robitzski

A measles outbreak in Samoa has left 60 people dead, the vast majority of them children under the age of four, prompting a nationwide vaccination campaign.
Developments

Thousands are ill and dozens of children have already died.

By Kristin Houser

MIT researchers have found that they could teach test subjects how to manipulate their own alpha brain waves, thereby improving attention at a given task.
Neuroscience and Brain

By suppressing alpha waves in their brain, subjects were able to improve their focus.

By Victor Tangermann

23Mofang, a Chinese DNA test startup offering similar reports to 23andMe, makes scientifically-questionable claims in its results, raising privacy concerns.
Gene Editing

"It's a gimmick. It's so ridiculous."

By Dan Robitzski

An Uber office in Rhode Island had separate bathrooms for the company's drivers and its employees, a move Uber says it "regrets."
Advanced Transport

"This was a mistake and we regret it."

By Kristin Houser

An American biotech firm claims it can slow or reverse human aging through gene-hacking, but the entire premise is scientificially questionable.
Gene Editing

"I think of this as a study where many things could go wrong."

By Dan Robitzski

A Roman Catholic priest launched a Vatican-themed Minecraft server that he hoped would be a haven from online toxicity. It was attacked immediately.
Future Society

Luckily, the priest who launched the server had a trick up his sleeve.

By Dan Robitzski

The chief of India's space agency claimed their orbiter had spotted Vikram, the perished lunar lander, months before NASA announced it had found it.
Future Society

"We had already declared that on our website, you can go back and see."

By Victor Tangermann