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Chinese-owned video social media sharing app TikTok is accused of censoring its user's content surrounding protests against in the government in Hong Kong.
Future Society

Is the Chinese government silencing citizen protests on one of the most popular social media apps?

By Natalie Coleman

After promising results in animal studies, doctors from the University of Pennsylvania are about to test an experimental herpes vaccine on humans.
Developments

Mouse and guinea pig tests yielded promising results.

By Dan Robitzski

The US military PR unit took to Twitter to "joke" that it would attack anyone who tried to storm Area 51 with a stealth bomber.
Military

Well, that escalated quickly.

By Kristin Houser

The head of Russia's space agency says it know what caused a mysterious Space Station hole — but NASA's head claims it hasn't shared the info with him.
NASA

NASA head: "[I]t is clearly not acceptable that there are holes in the International Space Station."

By Kristin Houser

NASA's InSight Lander on the surface of Mars detected a series of strange magnetic pulses that occurred exactly at midnight.
Science & Energy

The strange pulses were detected at exactly midnight Martian time.

By Victor Tangermann

On Sunday, every Tesla Supercharger within 15 miles of Yorktown Heights, NY got ICEd, leaving Tesla drivers unable to charge up.
Tesla

No more Mr. ICE guy.

By Dan Robitzski

To Our Readers: Why Futurism Isn’t Publishing Today
Climate Change

Because tomorrow.

By Foster Kamer

A pathogen could start a pandemic that kills 80 million people, according to a newly released report by the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board.
Studies

"The world is not prepared."

By Kristin Houser

Those mysterious "sonic attacks" that gave diplomats visiting Cuba in 2016 concussion-like symptoms may have actually been caused by pesticide fumes.
Developments

The mysterious sonic weapon may have actually been pesticide fumes.

By Dan Robitzski

China's Yutu-2 lunar lander just sent back images of a strange new substance it found near a small crater on the far side of the Moon.
Science & Energy

We're inching closer to discovering what the “colored mysterious substance” is.

By Victor Tangermann

Recreating the feeling of a psychedelic trip using virtual reality technology isn't easy, but that isn't stopping several artists from trying.
Virtual Reality

Trippy visuals are one thing. Inducing ego death is another.

By Kristin Houser

Eastern Australia is approaching Day Zero. Some towns have already run out of water, and several more probably will before the year's end.
Environment

Wait... "Mad Max" wasn't supposed to be a documentary!

By Dan Robitzski

Medical experiments conducted on astronauts in orbit could have far-reaching implications for medicine back home on Earth.
Medical

"Pretty quickly, even within the next three to five years, they could help us provide cures for cancer down here on the ground."

By Dan Robitzski

The FAA has issued a temporary flight restriction over Area 51 during the weekend's Alienstock festival for safety reasons.
Space

They want clear skies in case they need to fly people to safety.

By Kristin Houser

A "flying" taxi that uses hydrofoils to hover above the water was detained during a test in Paris because police didn't know it had permission to speed.
Advanced Transport

The taxi reportedly produces no noise or CO2 emissions.

By Kristin Houser

Distant galaxies are being killed off and rendered unable to form new stars. Now, astrophysicists are trying to figure out why.
Science & Energy

Distant galaxies are being deprived of the fuel they need to make stars.

By Dan Robitzski

Rapper Azealia Banks has written a song about an Elon Musk-like character who invents a brain interface — and is then executed via it.
Elon Musk

The song's "ungrateful technocrat" dies at the hands of an AI overlord.

By Kristin Houser

A new flexible patch could reverse baldness by shocking people's scalps with electricity. On bald mice, it works better than Rogaine.
Prosthetics and Devices

The scientist who invented the hat tested it on his dad.

By Dan Robitzski

A new German study concluded that 97 percent of blood and urine samples from 2,500 chidlren between three and 17 showed toxic levels of plastic byproducts.
Studies

Microplastics aren't just showing up in our oceans — they're showing up in kids.

By Victor Tangermann

Google Assistant was initially supposed to have a male-sounding voice, according to Google, but the technology at the time didn't cooperate.
Google

Using a female voice was just easier, the company says.

By Kristin Houser