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According to a preliminary lab test conducted by Pfizer, their COVID vaccine is effective against new highly transmissible variants of the virus.
Viruses

Pharma Execs Say They Plan to Profit on COVID-19 Vaccine

Moderna took a $483 million grant, but still wants to sell its COVID vaccine at a profit.

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers at a Chinese security lab have found a loophole that allows them to turn fast chargers for smartphones into a phone-killing device.
Devices

New Hack Makes Phone Chargers Kill Devices Plugged Into Them

It can even set devices on fire.

By Victor Tangermann

A new series of supercomputer-rendered animations shows what would happen to an Earth-like planet with a thin atmosphere if it collided with another object.
Science & Energy

Watch These Brutal Simulations of Apocalyptic Planetary Collisions

This is what'd happen if Earth crashed into another planet.

By Victor Tangermann

A team of German scientists are throwing a tightly-controlled concert in order to understand how COVID-19 can spread in large crowds.
Viruses

German Scientists Are Hosting a Concert to Study How COVID-19 Spreads

The scientists are looking for 4,000 brave volunteers to hang out in a stadium.

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk has announced that the mysterious computer-brain interface startup Neuralink he co-founded is about to update us on its progress on August 28.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Teases Major Neuralink Reveal

Is Neuralink about to drop an "awesome" update?

By Victor Tangermann

Someone found a new way to use deepfakes to spread disinformation online: using the tech to make up a fake journalist from scratch.
Artificial Intelligence

Someone Used Deepfake Tech to Invent a Fake Journalist

"Absolutely we need to screen out impostors and up our defenses."

By Dan Robitzski

Watch a 3D Printer Spit Out an Entire Two-Story House
3D Printing

Watch a 3D Printer Spit Out an Entire Two-Story House

"Printing this building is mainly a statement."

By Victor Tangermann

Google is investing heavily in new kinds of wearable technology, including high-tech tattoos that turn your body into a touchpad.
Google

Google Is Working on Tattoos That Turn Your Body Into a Touchpad

Google wants your skin.

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers have developed a special wall-mounted, noise-cancelling technology that can keep out the noise — even when windows are open.
Future Society

Noise Cancelling Window Gadget Can “Mute” Street Sounds

It's like a pair of noise-cancelling headphones for your entire apartment.

By Victor Tangermann

Three historic joysticks used to control NASA's Apollo 11 command module have just sold for more than $780,000 at an auction, going against NASA's wishes.
NASA

Someone Just Sold Apollo 11’s Joysticks, Against NASA’s Wishes

Houston, we have an auction!

By Victor Tangermann

"Bunny Ebola," a deadly hemorrhagic disease that infects rabbits, is spreading through domestic and wild populations in the U.S.
Developments

A “Bunny Ebola” Epidemic Is Sweeping Through America’s Rabbits

Bleeding, inflammation, and organ failure are coming for our precious bunnies.

By Dan Robitzski

A second stage of a Russian rocket that launched a mysterious spacecraft  reentered the Earth's atmosphere over the weekend, burning up like a comet.
Off-World

Texas Residents Spot Disintegrating Russian Rocket Booster in Sky

Rocket parts, raining from the sky.

By Victor Tangermann

An app called Sonde One claims to spot signs of respiratory disease just by analyzing your voice. But it's careful to clarify that it can't really diagnose.
Prosthetics and Devices

This App Claims It Can Hear COVID-19 in Your Voice

"We've heard that the nasal swabs return a disturbing number of false negatives."

By Dan Robitzski

NASA scientist Max Coleman has been trying to figure out if its possible to grow radishes in lunar soil analogues in his kitchen.
NASA

NASA Experiment: Radishes Could Probably Grow in Lunar Soil

"We're trying to show astronauts can use horticulture to grow their own food on the Moon."

By Victor Tangermann

A class of exoplanets thought to resemble gas giants like Neptune may actually be rocky worlds covered in thick, heavily irradiated oceans.
Science & Energy

“Mini-Neptune” Exoplanets May Actually Be Covered in Radioactive Oceans

This'd be a crummy place for a vacation.

By Dan Robitzski

The same company that announced a partnership with KFC to create the world's first 3D printed chicken nugget successfully printed human cells in space.
Prosthetics and Devices

The Same Company 3D Printing KFC’s Meat Nuggets Is Printing Human Tissue in Space As Well

Wait, what's going on here?

By Victor Tangermann

Uber drivers in the U.K. are suing the company for access to access to its logs on their performance, as well as info on how it's used.
Advanced Transport

Uber Drivers Are Suing to Learn How the Company’s Algorithm Works

They say Uber is violating their digital privacy.

By Dan Robitzski

With help from a Russian 3D printing startup, American fast food chain KFC wants to craft the "world's first laboratory-produced chicken nuggets."
3D Printing

KFC Is Working on 3D Printed, Lab-Grown Chicken Nuggets

"In the future, the rapid development of such technologies will allow us to make 3D-printed meat products more accessible."

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Curiosity rover encountered a strangely-colored rock on Mars and did what any smart robot would do: blasted it with a laser to see what was inside.
Mars

NASA’s Mars Rover Spent the Weekend Shooting a Weird-Looking Rock With a Laser

"We’re uncovering an ancient world that offered life a foothold for longer than we realized."

By Dan Robitzski

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Science & Energy

Curiosity Stream Is a Streaming Smörgåsbord of High-Quality Science-Focused Programs

It's the streaming service for people who love to learn.

By Futurism Creative