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A study claiming that He Jiankui's CRISPR babies would die young due to the Chinese scientist's edits has been retracted.
Gene Editing

"I feel I have a responsibility to put the record straight for the public."

By Kristin Houser

China is building a flying saucer-like experimental attack helicopter, and according to state media, it could fly as soon as 2020.
Military

The experimental attack helicopter looks like alien technology.

By Jon Christian

UK-based startup SpaceBit's Moon rover is not only the smallest ever, but it also has legs instead of the typical wheels.
Moon

The UK's first lunar lander will walk, not roll, across the Moon's surface.

By Kristin Houser

To find out what teens are smoking, two researchers collected trash from the grounds of 12 high schools over the course of eight months.
Chemistry

And found a link between students' home lives and their products of choice.

By Kristin Houser

PayPal left Facebook's cryptocurrency project last week. Visa, MasterCard, Stripe, and eBay have decided to abandon the crumbling project as well.
Cryptocurrency

Visa, MasterCard, Stripe, eBay, and PayPal have all abandoned Facebook's crypto project.

By Victor Tangermann

Porsche and Boeing Want to Build This Sexy Flying Car Together
Advanced Transport

This luxurious aircraft is aimed at the richest of the rich.

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers in Japan have developed a new way to keep brain tissue from animals alive and viable for up to 25 days.
Brain

"This method can be used for more than explanted tissues from animals."

By Victor Tangermann

At least six of the smaller galaxies orbiting the Milky Way were stolen from one of its other satellites, according to new research.
Science & Energy

At least six of the Milky Way's satellites used to belong to another galaxy.

By Kristin Houser

Astrobiologist Samantha Rolfe says that Elon Musk's plans to colonize Mars are more of a "moral catastrophe" than a noble aspiration.
Starship

Musk doesn't seem concerned about cross-planetary contamination.

By Dan Robitzski

The Hong Kong government has announced a ban on any face masks or paints that are "likely to prevent identification" during public demonstrations.
Artificial Intelligence

But enforcing the ban might not be so easy.

By Jacob Banas

A Yahoo software engineer hacked 6,000 people's accounts in a systematic, far-reaching hunt for nudes and other sexually-explicit media.
Science & Energy

Some of his 6,000 targets were his personal friends.

By Dan Robitzski

Early observations of the interstellar object 2I/Borisov suggest that the comet's home solar system might not be that different from our own.
Solar Power

This comet seems strangely familiar.

By Kristin Houser

A Dutch sex worker website has been hacked, with the thief getting away with the email addresses and other data of more than 250,000 users.
Hacking

And the hacker is asking a bizarrely low price for the data.

By Kristin Houser

In an unusual stunt, former Paralympian and bronze medal winner James Brown glued himself to the top of a British Airways plane at a London airport.
Climate Change

“I hate heights, I’m s***ing myself."

By Victor Tangermann

Nobel Prize-winning astronomer Didier Queloz is "convinced" that aliens exist — and that we could find signs of extraterrestrials before 2050.
Off-World

"I can’t believe we are the only living entity in the universe."

By Kristin Houser

Professor Lewis Dartnell, professor at the University of Westminster, has an ingenious plan as to how to build a human colony on the Moon.
Moon

This "Moontopia" looks incredibly cozy — except for one glaring problem.

By Victor Tangermann

At an event, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reiterated that the social network is still hoping to one day release a brain-controlled wearable
Meta

Would you let Facebook implant a neuron-reading device in your brain to control "another extra hand?"

By Victor Tangermann

Today, Pitchfork reports that a material shortage of has thrown a roadblock into the production of cassette tapes.Yes, you read that right: cassette tapes.
Future Society

Yes, you read that right: cassette tapes.

By Tag Hartman-Simkins

A tabloid called Express publishes at least one article about killer asteroids almost every single day. Futurism investigates!
Science & Energy

Is this the worst science journalism on the internet?

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers have discovered a way to use the powerful gene-editing system CRISPR-Cas13 in the fight against RNA-based viruses.
Gene Editing

It could help us fight everything from Ebola to the flu.

By Kristin Houser