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SpaceX Director of Crew Mission Management Benji Reed said he expects a "high chance" of bad weather delaying next week's astronaut launch.
SpaceX

SpaceX Says “High Chance” Human Launch Will Be Pushed Back

SpaceX will need calm seas to safely launch astronauts next week.

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists are working on a swarm of tiny, cell-sized robots that can travel inside a patient's bloodstream and target cancer cells.
Cancer

Scientists Disguise Cancer-Hunting Nanorobots as Blood Cells

Day 10: The other cells still suspect nothing.

By Dan Robitzski

Oil companies in Texas reportedly started to pay buyers to take oil off their hands and even pumping it underground for storage.
Science & Energy

Oil Companies Are Pumping Worthless Oil Back Underground

Texas is allowing companies to store hundreds of thousands of barrels underground.

By Victor Tangermann

Neuroscientist Christof Koch is grapping with why so many people experience blissful near-death experiences, a rush that he compares to extreme activities.
Science & Energy

A Famed Neuroscientist Is Investigating Near-Death Experiences

"I accepted the reality of these intensely felt experiences."

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is looking for participants to spent eight months together inside a spaceflight simulator at the Russian Institute for Biomedical Problems in Moscow.
Mars

NASA Will Pay You to Chill in a Fake Mars Mission for 8 Months

Beats self-isolating, right?

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers claim they have created a proof-of-concept bionic eye that holds the potential to surpass the sensitivity of the human eye.
Robots and Machines

This Bionic Eye Is Better Than a Real One, Scientists Say

"A human user of the artificial eye will gain night vision capability."

By Victor Tangermann

A British team of biologists have created the first-ever large-scale map of algae blooming across the Antarctic that's turning parts of the peninsula green.
Climate Change

Scientists: Climate Change Is Turning Parts of Antarctica Green

"I think we will get more large blooms in the future."

By Victor Tangermann

Engineers built tiny, iron nanobots that they can implant and track inside a patient's body, which they say could be used to kill off cancer cells.
Cancer

These Scientists Say Nanobots Could Kill Individual Cancer Cells

They could also be used to track, target, and deliver anticancer drugs to tumor cells.

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists may have caught pictures of a planet being born around a young star using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope.
Science & Energy

Stunning Images Appear to Show a Planet Being Born

For the first time in history, astronomers say they've spotted a planet forming. The images are beautiful.

By Victor Tangermann

In order to limit the number of doctors who come into contact with COVID-19 patients, hospitals are using mixed reality goggles to communicate across rooms.
Viruses

Doctors Are Using Mixed Reality to Treat COVID-19 Patients

"This is not a gimmick."

By Dan Robitzski

Douglas Loverro, the head of NASA's human spaceflight office just resigned a mere week before SpaceX's historic NASA astronaut launch.
NASA

NASA Leader Mysteriously Resigns After Unspecified Scandal

NASA's administrator for human spaceflight just resigned because of a "mistake" — and we have no idea why.

By Victor Tangermann

Associate professor of biology Erin Bromage decided to start a blog about how to keep safe amidst a global pandemic, and why you shouldn't panic.
Developments

Biologist Has Great Advice on COVID Infection Risks

Let's stop shaming runners and cyclists for not wearing masks.

By Victor Tangermann

In order to make space missions cheaper and safer, Japan is considering replacing astronauts with humanoid telepresence robots.
Robotics

Japanese Startup Wants to Replace Astronauts With Space Robots

"We'll see an era in which humans will be working in space, not just going to space."

By Dan Robitzski

Disturbing-Looking Face Mask Has “Pac-Man”-Style Mouth Hole
Prosthetics and Devices

Disturbing-Looking Face Mask Has “Pac-Man”-Style Mouth Hole

Would you wear this terrifying invention to a restaurant?

By Victor Tangermann

By playing around with mud in a special lab, an international team of researchers found that Mars is likely covered in strange mud volcanos.
Science & Energy

Mars May Be Covered in Bizarre Mud Volcanoes

"Next time we see something that looks like a lava flow, we cannot be sure that it is lava – it could be mud."

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new study, daily emissions decreased by 17 percent, or 17 million tons of carbon dioxide, worldwide to 2006 levels.
Renewable Energy

Study: Pandemic Caused 17% Drop in Global Carbon Emissions

Whether these low levels will be maintained is up to world leaders.

By Victor Tangermann

In order to equip future Martian settlers, scientists suggest altering their DNA to give them the traits they need to survive.
Mars

Astrobiologist: We Should Gene-Hack New Traits Into Mars Settlers

"And are we maybe ethically bound to do so?"

By Dan Robitzski

A Texas courtroom is experimenting with the videoconferencing software Zoom, which it's using to hold a jury trial this week.
Future Society

A Texas Court Is Holding The First-Ever Jury Trial Over Zoom

The future of law is unfolding on videochat.

By Dan Robitzski

New Zealand-based robotics company Rocos just shared a video of how Boston Dynamics' dog-like robot Spot could give agriculture workers a hand.
Robot Dogs

Watch a Robot Dog Herd Sheep on a New Zealand Farm

A robotics company wants farms to use robot dogs for work that's "often dull, dirty, or dangerous."

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule just arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center ahead of its first crewed test flight dubbed Demo-2 on May 27.
Crew Dragon

SpaceX Is Setting Up Crew Dragon For Its First Human Spaceflight

SpaceX is about to make history.

By Victor Tangermann