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Watch SpaceX Complete Its Starship Prototype Live on YouTube
Starship

The towering rocket will end up being 165 feet tall.

By Victor Tangermann

A new paper argues that the “primary colonists” of Mars should be microbes like the ones which support life on Earth in order to terraform the Red Planet.
Science & Energy

A controversial new paper argues that we should infect Mars — with Earthly microorganisms.

By Natalie Coleman

Autoblow is taking pre-orders for its "Autoblow AI," which promises to harness the power of AI to provide users with the perfect oral sex experience.
Robotics

They hired people in Serbia to train the algorithm.

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers say new observational equipment could help spot hundreds more interstellar visitors, like 'Oumuamua, every year.
Science & Energy

"Or we’ll discover multiple dead civilizations — that is, we’ll find their remains."

By Jon Christian

Scientists: This Massive Gas Planet Should Not Exist
Science & Energy

It's way too big to be orbiting this tiny star.

By Victor Tangermann

For the first time in history, a startup called Momentus is testing a new in-orbit water plasma propulsion system to maneuver satellites.
Off-World

This marks the first time water plasma has been used to propel a spacecraft.

By Victor Tangermann

According to a recent Q&A with the New York Times, a UFO and alien research group may have gotten its hands on some "exotic material samples from UFOs."
Robots and Machines

The former singer of Blink-182 says that aliens exist — and this time, maybe he can prove it.

By Victor Tangermann

A rare glimpse of a supermassive black hole obliterating a star in what's called a Tidal Disruption Event could help astrophysicists understand the cosmos.
Physics

NASA caught a rare glimpse of a star getting straight up obliterated.

By Dan Robitzski

Mathematician Kevin Buzzard warns that the field of math could be full of nonsense, as many prominent researchers don't double-check others' proofs.
Science & Energy

Too many mathematicians trust that proofs are correct instead of testing them.

By Dan Robitzski

Japan Airlines has a new tool that will allow you to get as far away as possible from a crying baby on your next trip by airplane.
Advanced Transport

Spot the baby.

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers Researchers are suggesting that in the orbit of the Milky Way's sun may be a free-floating "primordial black hole" — or even more than one.are suggesting that the Sun's orbit might have captured a free-floating "primordial black hole" — or even more than one.
Science & Energy

In a mind-bending new paper, researchers suggest that there could be black holes orbiting the Sun, out past Pluto.

By Jon Christian

A Fremont police officer had to cut a high-speed highway pursuit short after his modified Tesla Model S cop car's batteries ran down.
Tesla

This is what happens when you forget to charge your cop car.

By Victor Tangermann

Earlier this year, a video claiming to be the legendary Trump pee tape surfaced online. It's almost certainly a fake, but it's also unclear how it was made.
Artificial Intelligence

This tape is probably fake. But it's totally unclear how it was made.

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk tweeted early Thursday morning that "advanced AI" will be used to "manipulate social media" — if, he opined, it hasn't done so already.
Elon Musk

That is, if it hasn't already.

By Victor Tangermann

Oxford researchers found that at least 70 countries have sponsored campaigns that spread favorable propaganda across the internet.
Future Society

The fight against online disinformation means fighting powerful governments.

By Dan Robitzski

NASA’s New Black Hole Simulation Will Completely Melt Your Brain
Science & Energy

Black holes are so metal.

By Victor Tangermann

Wally Conron, the first person to breed a labradoodle, regrets his experiment and says he opened Pandora's box by creating the crossbreed dog.
Biology

I am become death, the destroyer of labradoodles.

By Dan Robitzski

MegaRobots' gigantic battle bot Eagle Prime is going for a chill $51,500 on Ebay at the time of writing after going on sale for a single dollar.
Robots and Machines

And it's surprisingly cheap.

By Victor Tangermann

After three years of tests, China is opening up its gigantic 500-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) to astronomers from all over the world.
Science & Energy

It's the biggest single-dish radio telescope in the world, spanning the length of 30 soccer fields.

By Victor Tangermann

If signs of alien life or civilization ever crashed into the Moon, they're likely still up there waiting to be discovered.
Science & Energy

Anything that may have smacked into the Moon is likely still there.

By Dan Robitzski