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Musk has gathered his best legal team to help him build a defense after calling a Thai rescuer a pedo last July: "pedo guy" isn't a "pedophile guy."
Elon Musk

This is a galaxy-brain legal defense.

By Victor Tangermann

A New Bioreactor Captures as Much Carbon as an Acre of Trees
Climate Change

Finding new ways to sequester carbon may be necessary to curb climate change.

By Dan Robitzski

According to Ars Technica, cutting-edge research into ultra-powerful lasers could pulse a laser "through fabric of the Universe."
Science & Energy

An ultra-powerful laser could tear into "the very fabric of space and time."

By Jon Christian

A company called Trusii told customers it would pay them monthly if they took out a loan to participate in a study testing its hydrogen water machine.
Developments

Customers had to take out $10,000 loans — and got machines that broke or developed mold.

By Dan Robitzski

YouTube influencers feel constant pressure to churn out content, prompting some — including Christine Sydelko — to give up the gig.
Future Society

Popular YouTuber Christine Sydelko has decided to "quit the internet stuff" — and she's not alone.

By Kristin Houser

In a one year genetics study, scientists gave nine healthy men a cocktail of three drugs to see whether they would slow down the men's biological age clock.
Studies

“I’d expected to see slowing down of the clock, but not a reversal.”

By Victor Tangermann

Japanese auto giant Toyota has partnered with a local energy company to test a Prius hybrid that's almost entirely covered in solar panels.
Advanced Transport

Say goodbye to charging stations and wait times.

By Victor Tangermann

A newly released Spider-Man deepfake sees Tom Holland take over for Tobey Maguire as emo Peter Parker in 2007's "Spider-Man 3"
Artificial Intelligence

See what it looks like when one Spider-Man plays another.

By Kristin Houser

An AP investigation shows that a troubling number of CBD products are spiked with synthetic marijuana, which can cause comas, psychotic behavior, and death.
Chemistry

Thanks to patchwork regulation, a number of CBD products contain stuff that could cause a psychotic episode — or even kill you.

By Dan Robitzski

A new simulation by researchers at Princeton University paints a terrifying picture of what a nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia might look like.
Future Society

The simulation shows 90 million immediate casualties — and that's just the beginning.

By Victor Tangermann

Former Googler Laura Nolan warns that the military should never use fully-autonomous weapons, lest they accidentally spark a war.
Google

Killer AI could do "calamitous things that they were not originally programmed for."

By Dan Robitzski

When scientists released gene-hacked mosquitoes into the wild population in Jacobino, Brazil, they thought it would quell the bugs. They had no such luck.
Science & Energy

Life finds a way.

By Dan Robitzski

German flying car startup Volocopter just showed off its flying taxi as it was taking flight at Stuttgart's Mercedes-Benz Museum
Advanced Transport

This 18-rotor two-seater drone could one day fly you to work.

By Victor Tangermann

MIT scientist Richard Stallman backpedaled his statements on the Jeffrey Epstein debacle, clarifying that adults shouldn't have sex with kids.
Future Society

Richard Stallman is backpedaling his disgusting comments defending Jeffrey Epstein — and sex with kids as young as 14.

By Dan Robitzski

Thanks to the Gemini Observatory, we get a closer look at the object called C/2019 Q4 (Borisov), a comet believed to be from beyond our solar system.
Solar Power

Behold: a visitor from beyond.

By Victor Tangermann

After photographing dead bodies for 17 months, scientists at a body farm made a greusome discovery: decomposing corpses wriggle around as they dry up.
Developments

Scientists photographed a corpse for 17 months so you don't have to.

By Dan Robitzski

France's Minister of the Economy and Finance said that Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency will be barred from the country if it's released as planned.
Cryptocurrency

"…we cannot authorize the development of Libra on European soil."

By Dan Robitzski

A news reporter caught a Tesla Model X plowing its way down a flooded street in South Dakota, exiting the water seemingly no worse for wear.
Tesla

"Don't do what you see right there. Very dangerous."

By Kristin Houser

Scientists can finally take a closer look at the big, radioactive bubbles our galaxy's black hole burped out millions of years ago.
Science & Energy

Excuse you.

By Dan Robitzski

British fishmonger Rex Goldsmith found that Instagram was censoring his photos for featuring "offensive content" twice in two weeks.
Future Society

"I think it's a bit ridiculous really."

By Kristin Houser