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New research reveals that Mars auroras — the Red Planet's version of the Northern Lights, are far more common than previously thought.
Science & Energy

Majestic Auroras Sweep the Martian Sky Almost Every Day

Mars has its own version of the Northern Lights.

By Dan Robitzski

Someone shared GIFs of strobe lights via Twitter and tagged the Epilepsy Foundation in an apparent attempt to trigger seizures in people with epilepsy.
Future Society

Cyberattack Aims to Cause Seizures in Twitter Users With Epilepsy

The attacker shared posts of strobe lights — and tagged the Epilepsy Foundation.

By Kristin Houser

Amazon is full of third-party merchants selling food and other stuff they found in the garbage. It turns out it's not hard to sneak through the system.
Food

Scammers Are Selling Dumpster-Dived Food on Amazon

Oh no.

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers have created an AI that is able to come up with a recipe for "perovskite" that could one day be used to create spray-on solar cells.
Solar Power

Scientists Are Working on Spray-On Solar Panels

This artificial intelligence might make it a reality.

By Victor Tangermann

Former NASA engineer Mark Rober is back with a new-and-improved Glitter Bomb Trap 2.0, an upgrade to his rigged package for "porch pirates."
NASA

NASA Alum Upgrades Glitter Stink Bomb for “Porch Pirates”

If you've ever had a package stolen, you'll want to watch this.

By Kristin Houser

Google fired a fifth employee who had been trying to organize the comapny's workforce, though the tech giant denies that was the root issue.
Future Society

Google Reportedly Fires Fifth Worker For Organizing Unionization

Kathryn Spiers distributed educational tools about labor rights.

By Dan Robitzski

Urban flight company Skyryse has shown off what it calls the "world's most intelligent helicopter" — a modified self-flying helicopter.
Advanced Transport

Watch the First Commercial Self-Flying Helicopter Take Off

They call it the "world's most intelligent helicopter."

By Victor Tangermann

Newly discovered "cocoons" of gaseous carbon around young galaxies could help solve the mystery of how the element spread throughout the universe.
Science & Energy

Strange “Cocoons” Surround These Young Galaxies

"We are witnessing... the earliest environmental pollution in the Universe."

By Kristin Houser

NASA just released a new image, the clearest yet, of 2I/Borisov, the second ever interstellar visitor we've seen enter our solar system.
Science & Energy

NASA Releases New Image of Interstellar Visitor

"Borisov is the first known interstellar comet, and we would like to know how many others there are."

By Dan Robitzski

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

Boeing to Halt Production of Disaster-Prone 737 MAX Jet

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

Africa Unveils Massive Alien-Hunting Antenna Network

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

A Driver Used so Much Air Freshener His Car Literally Exploded

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

Families Sue Tech Giants for Deaths of Children in Cobalt Mines

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

New Orleans Declares State of Emergency Due to Hackers

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

Scientists Want a Giant Folding Space Telescope to Find Earth 2.0

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

Europe is Launching a Planet-Hunting Space Telescope Tomorrow

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

Tesla Owner’s Dashcam Footage Proves Cop Wrong

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

Astronomers May Have Been Wrong About The Milky Way’s History

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

Newly Discovered Blinking Space Lights Could Be Signs of Aliens

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

A Former NASA Astronaut Is Building a Plasma-Powered Mars Rocket

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

By Dan Robitzski