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Astronomers have built a new model that could answer lingering questions about Betelgeuse — by positing that it was once two stars.
Science & Energy

Giant Star Betelgeuse May Have Eaten a Smaller Companion

The famous red giant may have once been two stars.

By Kristin Houser

A small Michigan town is spending $3,400 on a Nasal Ranger, a bizarre-looking device it hopes will help it sniff out illegal marijuana plants.
Future Society

Smelly Town Buys Bizarre Device to Sniff out Marijuana Plants

"The city of Bessemer stinks. You can smell marijuana everywhere."

By Kristin Houser

The NHTSA said Friday that it's thinking about launching an investigation over a petition citing issues over Teslas accelerating suddenly.
Tesla

Government Might Investigate Teslas Accelerating Unexpectedly

Are Teslas lurching forward and crashing?

By Victor Tangermann

European Space Agency (ESA) scientists have figured out a way to produce oxygen from Moon dust. The team just opened up their own "prototype oxygen plant."
Science & Energy

Scientists Say They’ve Found a Way to Make Oxygen From Moon Dust

"Being able to acquire oxygen from resources found on the Moon would obviously be hugely useful for future lunar settlers."

By Victor Tangermann

A children's hospital being constructed in Dublin might implement facial recognition security cameras. The reasoning? To prevent babies from being stolen.
Facial recognition

Hospital: We Need Facial Recognition to Catch Baby Snatchers

Wait, what?

By Dan Robitzski

The blob, a patch of warm water in the Pacific Ocean, caused the deaths of an estimated one million seabirds, according to a new study.
Climate Change

Pacific Ocean’s Warm “Blob” Killed a Million Seabirds in One Year

This is the largest mass death of seabirds in recorded history.

By Kristin Houser

Researchers have created a "strange metal" that could help us harness the potential of the quantum world in a practical way.
Quantum Physics

Scientists Create “Strange Metal” Packed With Entangled Electrons

This could be the key to creating quantum technologies.

By Kristin Houser

In a series of tweets on Thursday evening, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed some more details of his greater plans to colonize Mars.
Mars

Elon Musk Says He’ll Put A Million People on Mars By 2050

Musk: "There will be a lot of jobs on Mars!"

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists is exploring a bizarre idea: finding a way to build structures, circuitry, and other materials out of living fungal architecture.
Biology

These Researchers Want You to Live In a Fungus Megastructure

Let's just hope you aren't allergic.

By Dan Robitzski

YouTubers from "The Hacksmith" have made great progress on their half scale Tesla Cybertruck, drifting around a snowy parking lot in their latest video.
Advanced Transport

Watch This Adorable Mini Cybertruck Drift in the Snow

This tiny Cybertruck has more torque than a Ford F-150 pickup.

By Victor Tangermann

Quorn Foods will be the first major food brand to add carbon footprint labels to all of its food products, according to a new Guardian story.
Food

First Major Food Brand Adds Carbon Footprint Labels to Products

"This is about giving people the information needed to make informed decisions..."

By Kristin Houser

A housing developer has a plan to bring affordable housing to San Francisco: pack people into tiny underground sleeping pods.
Future Society

This Developer Wants to Pack Renters Into Tiny Underground Pods

"And no pod sex."

By Kristin Houser

Researchers have built a flying robot drone called PigeonBot that features real pigeon feathers in an effort to understand the kinetics of birds' flight.
Drones

Scientists Made a Drone Fly Better Using Real Pigeon Feathers

"Future airplanes may not flap their wings, but I think they will change shape."

By Victor Tangermann

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) compared facial recognition tech to the dystopian sci-fi series "Black Mirror" during a House committee meeting.
Facial recognition

AOC Warns That Facial Recognition Is “Real-Life ‘Black Mirror'”

That selfie filter isn't as innocuous as you might think.

By Kristin Houser

Over 20,000 people have offered to become Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa's flight companion on his trip around the Moon and "life partner."
Moon

20,000 Apply to Be Billionaire’s Girlfriend, Get Free Moon Trip

Starship and chill.

By Victor Tangermann

The decision by Delta Flight 89 pilots to dump jet fuel over a populated area and from a Boeing at an elevation of just 2,300 feet has left experts baffled.
Advanced Transport

Experts Don’t Know Why Boeing 777 Doused Children With Jet Fuel

"I'm just puzzled why these folks decided to do it this way."

By Kristin Houser

Vanderbilt University law student Ramon Ryan argues in a new paper that the FCC's approval of over 30,000 planned SpaceX satellites could've been unlawful.
SpaceX

Researcher: SpaceX Satellite Plans Break US Environmental Law

In "the most basic sense, it would be unlawful."

By Victor Tangermann

An experimental NASA program is tinkering with the idea of building a Mars or Moon base out of living mushrooms that astronauts would grow onsite.
Moon

NASA Wants to Grow a Moon Base Out of Mushrooms

Moon colonists could live in fungus-based structures.

By Dan Robitzski

A piece of astronaut Christina Koch's helmet fell off during an ISS spacewalk on Wednesday, forcing her to rely on her partner Jessica Meir for light.
Off-World

Piece of Astronaut’s Spacesuit Falls Off During Spacewalk

Yikes!

By Kristin Houser

Scientists sequenced the entire giant squid genome, revealing new hints into how the unusual creature reached its huge size and developed a complex brain.
Biology

Researchers Finally Sequence Giant Squid’s Entire Genome

Sequence the kraken!

By Dan Robitzski